About this role
ABOUT YOU As a person you are passionate about strategic analysis, setting direction and forward-thinking. You feel strongly about leading, inspiring and developing co-workers both within the Center of Expertise and in the markets. You are motivated to collaborate across IKEA stakeholders and to work agile and positively embrace change. You show strong IKEA leadership skills, by using sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions and direct efforts to achieve long-term business objectives. You also demonstrate creativity and imagination and have an awareness of colour, texture and the spatial environment. You champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance. To help achieve business objectives you successfully coordinate and direct activities (incl. virtual). You have knowledge of: • how to initiate, plan, execute, control and close a cross-functional project • trends that influence home furnishing, retail design and communication to gain insight to a more appealing product presentation for customers in our retail environment • about customers' living situations in different areas around the world as well as their needs and frustrations in their everyday life at home • the methods for presenting the range and service range using store media, display techniques and store layout as commercial tools • industry trends, outlooks and emerging technologies to achieve organisational goals and objectives • knowledge of IKEAs corporate identity, core values and vision We believe you have a minimum of 10 years working with cross-functional collaboration and a minimum of 5 years working with home furnishing & retail design solution development. You have proven advanced training in business management, art and design, architecture or equivalent. You also possess strong interpersonal and project management skills. Please note that we have a preferred candidate for this position. ABOUT THE JOB You will lead projects in the New Retail Design team, identifying new opportunities for retail design experiences. We expect you to drive an open and sharing climate, being a role model of the IKEA values where our co-workers are informed, engaged and empowered. You will: • create solutions for an appealing retail environment that consumers want to visit and return to • identify potentials & opportunities for creation of new retail design experience in new media, new space & new touchpoint formats by meeting experts, travelling to forefront development areas etc. • work in collaboration with the Retail Solution team to incorporate new experiences in current home furnishing & retail design solutions • work in cross-functional collaborations with external partners, 'Development & Innovation' (Markets, Expansion, Centers, IIS, Digital, IMS etc.), Space 10 and other potential stakeholders • be responsible for writing & setting up the creative brief for each project • work across functions within INGKA Group and in good collaboration with other IKEA businesses Please note that for this position, we have an preferred internal candidate.