Want to make something extraordinary? Come make it at IKEA. We’re opening our first store in Aotearoa. This is your chance to become part of the IKEA whānau and be part of something historic from day one. Together with all our co- workers, we’re on a mission to create a better every day for the many people. Now, we’re preparing to bring that mission to the many Kiwis!
Because we know that great ideas can come from anywhere, everyone has the potential to make a real impact at IKEA. Whether you're a creative thinker, a problem solver, or someone who loves helping others, there’s room for you to grow here. After all, some of our best leaders started their journey on the shop floor. Now it's your turn to help assemble our story in Aotearoa.
We’re excited to announce multiple openings for dynamic Interior Design Specialists to join our vibrant Design team at IKEA. If you’re passionate about home furnishings and thrive in a fast-paced retail environment, we want to hear from you!
Working at IKEA has its benefits and rewards • 5 weeks of Paid Annual Leave, Parental Leave Pay, and more • 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support • 15% discount for co-workers • Affordable, nutritious meals with complimentary drinks in our co-worker restaurant. • Provided co-worker uniform
But that’s enough about us. Over to you now.
Why we will love you
You have a deep passion for home furnishing and a strong ability to inspire and transform functional living spaces. Thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced, hands-on retail environment, you excel under tight deadlines while bringing creativity and an eye for detail to every project.
Whether through your background in Interior Design, or previous experience in a similar role, you bring valuable expertise that contributes to creating an engaging and inspiring IKEA shopping experience.
About this work area
As an Interior Design Specialist your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: • Using your passion for home furnishing to contribute to positioning IKEA Sylvia Park as the first choice for home furnishing in the local market. • Effect positive change on life at home of the many New Zealanders. • Implementing your home furnishing knowledge to create inspiring solutions for our visitors and customers within our room settings, homes, vignettes, and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity. • Stimulating emotional connection to home furnishing through constantly showing new and inspiring solutions that motivate people to visit the IKEA store frequently. • Coordinating and implementing new home furnishing solutions, throughout the store • Using the IKEA product range to show the distinct and different styles that appeal to many individual tastes and needs within the local market. Including visiting our customers where they live. • Reflecting the IKEA Brand identity by creating visual impact in all commercial, sales support, and co-worker areas.
To be considered for this role experience in the following is essential: · A true passion for home furnishing and people’s lives at home with a strong ability to inspire and transform functional home furnishing spaces. · A strong communicator, capable of guiding peers and influencing stakeholders to achieve goals through interior design. · Passionate to follow the process from idea to implementation, as a practical and hands on individual, with proven ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment. · An ability to flourish in a dynamic and creatively charged environment, working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced retail environment. · A proactive, problem-solving mindset and passionate about the IKEA brand. · Experienced with spatial planning programs such as Revit (preferred) or AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe CC Suite. · An Interior Design or Architecture qualification, or Design related education. · A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Interior Design or another Design related role. · An understanding of how to handle multiple tasks with a hands-on mindset often utilising tools like ladders, sewing machines, power tools, including painting.
What you need to know
• This role is permanent full time. • The work location for this role once the store is open will be IKEA Sylvia Park. Until then, you will likely be based from a temporary office in Auckland. Occasionally, you might be required to work from the external warehouse in Māngere. • As our store operates 7 days per week, you must have the availability to work a rotating roster with a mix of day and evening shifts. You also have the availability to work alternating weekend shifts. • The internal title for this role is Unit Interior Design Specialist I. • If your application is progressed, you may be invited to complete a Video Interview • As part of the recruitment process this role requires a pre-employment check for final candidates which includes an MOJ police check. • Car parking will not be provided and therefore IKEA encourages all Co-workers to utilise public transport wherever possible. • IKEA Sylvia Park is a non-smoking workplace.
We need people like you
At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us!
This is more than just a job. At IKEA, we want to build careers that let you look back and know you’ve made it. That’s why we foster a work environment where you feel comfortable bringing your whole self to mahi and make the most of your talents. When you work at IKEA, you're joining a place where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your wellbeing comes first. Because that's what “making it” is all about.
We believe everything we do comes with the responsibility to create a positive impact on people, society, and the planet. So if you’re passionate about making the world a better place, making a whare an inspiring space, or simply making someone’s day, apply now and make it at IKEA.
