Job Opportunity as an Expansion Interior Design at IKEA in the UAE

Al Futtaim is offering a job opportunity as an Expansion Interior Designer to join IKEA’s team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for 2021. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Optimizing the use of the IKEA store layout and store media by developing and implementing range presentation solutions that strengthen the connection between the IKEA offer and the every life of people.
• Securing a deep knowledge of all store media and clarifying the main purpose of each media.
• Securing a very accurate implementation of the assigned area during the commercial planning and the implementation of the assigned area during the commercial build-up.
• Reflecting the IKEA brand identity and the importance of Sustainable solutions creating visual impact in all commercial, sales support and co-worker areas.

Key Specific Accountabilities:

Regional Support:

• Production of the commercial plans package of the assigned area in a commercial planning and build up. 
• Actively support the Expansion Interior design manager in implementing the IKEA Regional business plan and Com&In BP plan to support the optimization of sales and long-term growth in the new to build stores.
• Support the stores to ensure the uniqueness of the IKEA Brand identity in range presentation and store communication to distance us from the competition.
• Using range presentation solutions are relevant to the many people’s life at home in my local market and that it accurately reflects demographics, living conditions and out visitors needs and wants.
• Securing that the solutions reflect a wide variety style expressions and functions to meet individual tastes and stimulate visitors to change their home furnishings more often, using IKEA style groups and IKEA living situations.
• Develop the store layout and support the stores to ensure it is used to create optimal visual impact, a good overview and supports commercial priorities.
• Working with Service Com&In colleagues, expansion team, Sales leaders, Fulfillment team and other SO functions to agree on national priorities. Together developing solutions that present and communicate the IKEA product range in a way that reflects its width and depth and strengthens the lowprice profile on all levels and meet local market needs.

Store Support and New Stores:

• Demonstrate a deep knowledge and understanding of people’s needs and dreams, their living situations and living conditions and consumer buying behavior in my local market and I am inquisitive to find out more.
• Analyze the IKEA Customer Satisfaction survey (ICSS), IKEA Brand Capital and other visitor feedback and use these insights to work with the store Com & In teams to improve the experience of visitors and convert them into satisfied customers.
• Work with the SO Com & In colleagues and other SO functions to provide the specific, relevant support which enables the stores and other IKEA units.
• Working with the Expansion graphic communication specialist and Expansion visual merchandiser specialist to ensure consistency in how IKEA communicate throughout new stores.
• Supporting the new stores to ensure the implementation of store communication using the layout to create optimal visual impact, a good overview and support commercial priorities.
• Working with my SO Com & In colleagues to ensure that all IKEA communicate to the stores is consistent, understandable and cost-effective for them to implement.

Coaching:

• Sharing good ideas and coaching interior designers in new stores to improve their competence.
• Work with manuals, global directions and tools within my area of responsibility.

Leadership:

• Ability to form business relationships.
• Dynamic and action oriented, initiative and can lead small scale projects within the business.

Projects:

• Coordinate with the regional expansion plans whenever necessary including commercial planning, build up and opening phases.
• Supporting with current ways of working and business practices.

1. You have the ability to combine commercial, aesthetic and practical skills. 
2. You can generate, visualise and present new ideas.
3. You can work together with others in a team and confident in approaching and communicating clearly with different people in various situations. 
4. You are flexible, hands-on approach to responsibilities and able to meet set deadlines.
5. Live and share the IKEA values every day.
6. Degree in Interior Design.
7. 5 years of retail interior design experience, IKEA experience is highly preferred.
8. Good knowledge of the IKEA Concept.
9. Proven ability to visualise, design and communicate home furnishing and retail solutions.
10. Has thorough knowledge of the role and responsibilities of the Communication & Interior Design department.
11. Has a passion for visual merchandising, display solutions, interior design, home furnishings and design.
12. Understands customer buying behaviour and buying decisions.
13. Knows the competition on the local market. 
14. Has experience in incorporating the commercial calendar into the Communication & Interior Design action plan.
15. Has thorough knowledge of the role and responsibilities of a store visual merchandiser.
16. Excellent Computer skills in AutoCAD, REVIT, Sketchup and Microsoft Office like Powerpoint, etc.
17. Presentation skills & Business Acumen.
18. Time management and basic administration skills.
19. Mentoring skills.
20. Sustainability and cost conscious.
21. Healthy and safety knowledge.

About Al Futtaim:

Al-Futtaim’s family business traces its origins back to the 1930s on the banks of the Dubai Creek, a trailblazer for innovative trading concepts designed to enrich lifestyles. Today, Al-Futtaim is present in 29 countries, represents over 200 companies spanning the automotive, finance, retail, and real estate industries, and it is now 42,000 people strong. Currently spanning the automotive, finance, retail, and real estate industries, Al-Futtaim’s diverse and far-reaching portfolio of brands and companies are ever-present in people’s lives, from the shores of Singapore to the sands of the UAE.

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