Interior Design Co-worker

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at affordable prices. We are part of IKEA Al-Homaizi Limited, operating in three countries - Kuwait, Jordan, and Morocco.

Our keywords are Home, People, Happiness, Development, Leadership, Inclusion & Diversity, All with Passion!

Join us to bridge your dreams and unique ideas within an organization that believes in People.

IKEA is all about people, and the interior design team inspires and surprises visitors by presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer with strong visual impressions that exceed visitors’ expectations. This will strengthen the IKEA Brand and convert more visitors into customers.

To create relevant, functional, aesthetic, and commercial home furnishing solutions that contribute to positioning the IKEA Brand in the local market as the leader in life at home.

Key Assignments: 

• Use home furnishing competence to create home furnishing solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes, and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity.
• Actively contribute to the gathering of insights from home visit interviews and translating this knowledge into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic, and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way.
• Contribute to the creation of a Showroom matrix that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations, and price levels to create a good tempo with distinct visual impressions.
• Secure high quality, simplicity, efficiency, and cost consciousness when planning and implementing all range presentation solutions using global tools and best practices.
• Stay up-to-date and knowledgeable about home furnishing, retailing, and trends in order to contribute to workshops to generate creative ideas.
• Contribute to the content of the department action plan with initiatives that will grow the business and support long-term profitability and execute the agreed plans together with the Com&In team and other functions.
• Respect routines and responsibilities, work together with Com&In team and other functions, act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities, and understand the impact of your actions on the financial results.
• Keep visitors in mind when working on the shop floor, ensure disruption is minimized, and stay aware of the importance of safety and the visual impact for visitors at all times.
• Any security breaches must be notified concerned authority and manager.
• Be aware of all security-related emergency responses and follow the policy and procedures.

• Retail and home furnishing experience.
• Experience working with interior design in a retail environment.
• Visual competence with a keen eye for aesthetics.
• Ability to generate new ideas and concepts.
• A passion for home furnishing, retailing, design, and how people live at home. Able to draw, visualize, and present ideas.
• Enthusiastic about assignments and working with others in a team.
• Practical hands-on approach to work.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Computer proficiency with knowledge and experience in using relevant software (e.g. AutoCad).
• Ability to combine commercial, aesthetic, and practical skills.
• Ability to generate, visualize, and present new ideas.
• Ability to work together with others in a team. Confident in approaching and communicating clearly with different people in various situations.
• Have a flexible and hands-on approach to responsibilities as well as the ability to meet set deadlines.
• Home furnishing the IKEA way (living situations, style groups, store communication, furnishing with light).
• Range presentation the IKEA way (layout as a commercial tool, store media, display techniques).
• Understand life at home in the local market and the outcome of market research, e.g. IKEA Customer Satisfaction Survey, IKEA Brand Capital.
• Understand interior design and trends that influence home furnishing.
• The work method for presenting the IKEA range. IKEA Concept and IKEA Brand Objectives.
• IKEA mechanical sales system.