Job Opportunity in UAE as a Graphic Designer at Alfuttaim

Alfuttaim offers a job opportunity in UAE as a Graphic Designer. You have the ability to priorities and organize your own work in order to make the most efficient use of time available. You must have the ability to work in a fast retail environment. You are driven to exceed goals and possess a desire to improve ways of working and have an interest for home furnishing, people life at home, and the IKEA range. 

You will be responsible for:

• Contribute to positioning the IKEA store as the “Leader in life at home” in the market in order to maximize sales and long-term profitability.
• Securing the effective implementation of global solutions using knowledge of people’s life at home and consumer buying behavior in the market and your graphic and digital communication design skills to adapt these to meet the regional needs.
• Communicating the IKEA Concept, its Swedish roots and unique services enabling the IKEA mechanical sales system, which is a prerequisite to fulfill the IKEA Business idea/promise of the store and for customers to buy supporting sales steering to commercial priorities.
• Create, produce and implement all store communication of the assigned project during the commercial planning and commercial buildup of a new store, as well as in any other projects.
• Graphic Design.
• Create inspired and qualitative graphic design that showcases the IKEA visual and verbal identity for different channels.
• Use expertise in integrating graphic design solutions in commercial contexts, in order to add value and help create a visually stimulating and convenient experience for consumers.
• Secure communication needs are met in the customer experience by providing relevant content, in appealing and easy to understand formats.
• Secure and plan for an efficient production and implementation of graphic design solutions.
• Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within commercial and beyond to secure integration, common focus and to maximize impact for example Digital, web team and marketing team. 
• Contribute to the integrated multichannel executions order to contribute to the business goals.
• Measure performance of output in your own areas to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, and to ensure performance excellence throughout the year.
• Working closely with the Com&In regional activity leader, regional marketing department colleagues and other SO colleagues to ensure the country business calendar messages are communicated in a clear, consistent and inspiring way, supporting commercial priorities and reflecting seasonality.  
• Store Support (New Stores).
• Ensure that graphic and digital communication:
• Is prioritized and placed correctly.
• Consistent and understandable.
• Clear and uncluttered
• Use graphic and digital communication skills and this knowledge to provide relevant graphic communication to secure one IKEA identity. 
• Working with the expansion visual merchandise specialists, expansion interior design specialists to ensure consistency in how the brand communicate throughout its new stores and other projects.
• Working with the Regional SO Com&In colleagues to ensure that all the brand communicates to the stores is consistent, understandable and cost-effective for them to implement. 
• Coaching.
• Support and coach the store graphic communication designers of new stores to secure that the graphic communication is prioritized, placed correctly, consistent and understandable, clear and uncluttered with the customer in focus. 
• Projects.
• Support with the regional expansion plans whenever necessary including translations, commercial planning, build up and opening phases.
• Supporting with current ways of working and business practices.

You must have:

• Live and share the IKEA values every day.
• Degree in Graphic Design, media and Typography.
• From 3 to 5 years’ experience within the Communication & Interior Design department, ideally in Home furnishing or Retail industry, IKEA experience is highly preferred.
• Understands customer buying behavior and buying decisions.
• Knows the competition on the local market.
• Must have skills in using sign making equipment and preferably experience in working with MAC graphic software such as Google Sketchup, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
• Proven ability to visualize, creative design and communicate home furnishing and retail solutions.
• Attention to detail with a keen eye for aesthetics.
• Proven commitment to high quality execution within limited time frames.
• Travelling on projects for long periods in the UAE or Overseas.
• Passion for interior design, home furnishings and graphic design.

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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