• Lead and manage a team of Interior Designer and inspire and challenge them to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and home furnishing solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes and sales support areas. • Be responsible for gathering and translating insights from home visit interviews into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way. • Lead a team of Interior Designer in creating the store range presentation that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations and price levels that create a good tempo with distinct visual impressions. • Secure that interior designers execute home furnishing solutions with high quality, simplicity, cost-effectiveness and efficiency using global tools and best practices. • Maintain deep and up-to-date knowledge about home furnishing, retailing and trends in order to support the Communication Manager to facilitate workshops that generate creative directions that inspire and surprise visitors with strong visual impressions. • Actively support in the development of the department action plan with interior design initiatives that are focused on growing the business and support long-term profitability and execute agreed plans together with the communication team and other functions. • Be responsible for the recruitment and competence development of Interior Designers and secure successor planning by constantly searching for potential candidates. • Act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities and ensure the Interior Designers understand the impact of the Communications Team actions on the financial results. • Ensure the team always keep visitors in mind, disruption is minimised and communicate changes when working on the shop floor. • Actively contribute in the national Interior Design Managers network and share national directions and global tools with the Interior Design co-workers in the stores.
What you'll need to have
• Deep knoledge on how to presente a furiniture range (living situations, style groups, store communication, furnish with light). • Deep Understanding of the local market and the outcome of market research. • 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, global tools and solutions. • Understand how to lead creative processes and how to build interior design competence. • Ability to identify and combine commercial, aesthetic and practical skills and to create a trustful and creative environment. • A natural ability to move smoothly from assessing the bigger picture to seeing the small details. • Good analytical and strategic skills and the ability to steer the store business over the short-, mid- and long term. • Significant experience of working as an interior designer. • Possess an interior design-based education. • Proven success in leading creative processes and creating a trustful environment. • A passion for home furnishing, design and how people live at home. Experience of working in a fast retail environment. • Proven customer-focused mindset. • Demonstrate clear communication skills. • Ability to set and implement action plans, set expectations, provide clear direction and follow up goals. • Ability to prioritise and organise work and the work of others in order to make the most efficient use of time available and meet agreed goals and deadlines. • Computer proficient with knowledge and experience of using relevant software (e.g. AutoCad and Revit). • You are good in Italian and in English
