Expansion Shop Design Leader

Job ID: 273121

Date posted: 03/02/2025

Who you are
You are a creative and strategic thinker with a passion for home furnishing and retail design. With a deep understanding of customer behavior and retail space planning, you bring innovative solutions to enhance the shopping experience. You have a strong background in retail design, visual merchandising, and project management, with a proven ability to lead teams and drive results. You thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and are motivated by creating an IKEA fit for the future. Your leadership skills and ability to work cross-functionally make you an asset to any team.
Your Experience Skills:
Advanced training in retail design, interior design, art and design, planning, or equivalent.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing businesses and delivering results, preferably within home furnishing and retail design solution development.
At least 2 years of experience in leading and influencing teams.
Strong shop design and project management skills, with a proven ability to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to high standards of quality.
Knowledge of the Retail Establishment Process and experience of implementing it.
A creative mindset with the ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, leveraging new methods, digital systems, and processes.
A deep understanding of customer needs, their living situations, and trends in home furnishing and retail design.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and collaborate across functions while staying aligned with IKEA s tone of voice and values.
Ability to prioritize and make decisions with speed and simplicity.
A holistic mindset to identify business opportunities within a global organization.
Your responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of retail spaces for new Customer Meeting Points (CMPs) and major rebuilds, ensuring they are inspiring, and commercial while reflecting IKEAs identity.
Support the project team in shop design to ensure an inspiring and functional range presentation across all customer meeting points.
Inspire and develop presentation solutions that reflect a variety of styles, price levels, and life-at-home activities, aligned with seasonal commercial activities.
Design retail spaces based on customer journeys and adapt them to meet the needs of different markets across India, collaborating with market teams, central planning hubs, and Inter IKEA Systems.
Utilize global tools, best practices, and proven solutions while ensuring local relevance.
Deliver projects within expected quality, time, and budget while ensuring an outstanding customer experience and strengthening the IKEA brand. Stay at the forefront of new solutions and technologies to optimize customer experience and operational efficiency.
Ensure a seamless and convenient shopping experience, creating an attractive commercial atmosphere.
Lead and collaborate across functions within the country organization and Ingka Group to create a seamless multichannel shopping experience.
Promote a culture of sharing, inclusivity, and sustainability, aligned with IKEA values and commitments.
Together as a team
Growth is in our team DNA, we thrive on discovering new horizons, pushing boundaries and exploring uncharted territory. With different backgrounds and perspectives, we work together to analyse new and existing markets to find opportunities to expand our business and bring the IKEA offer to even more of the many people around the world. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad said: Most things still remain to be done. A glorious future! We believe so too :)

With the customer at the heart of everything we do, Expansion takes responsibility for developing and implementing the strategic expansion plan in the country. Expansion acts upon business needs based on and optimize accessibility to enable maximum penetration of the country. Expansion is responsible for implementing our retailing concepts and securing that we fully utilize our assets in the new world of IKEA lowest cost, with economy of scale and sustained profitability

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

At IKEA we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.