Country Shop Design Leader / Country Visual Merchandiser Leader

You see things a little differently. So do we. Leadership at IKEA is simple, clear and humble. We’re not fans of bureaucracy and complicated hierarchy. We invest in your passions and encourage you to grow with them. Come see things a little differently with us.

You are passionate about understanding shopping behaviours of the many people, the local Life at Home and current Home Furnishing trends as well as about creating an inspirational and emotional retail experience.

For this role we believe you have minimum 10 years of experience in Visual Merchandising, Store design or similar and delivering results as well as minimum 5 years of experience in leading and influencing co-workers. In addition, you have experience from retail, preferably home furnishing sector, as well as experience in planning, driving output and measuring performance (business).

You have broad knowledge of the multichannel reality and online customer behaviours as well as of customers' living situations and their needs and frustrations in their everyday life at home. You also possess broad knowledge of trends that influence home furnishing, retail design and communication. You also have broad knowledge of the methods for presenting the range and service range using store media, display techniques and store layout as commercial tools as well as deep knowledge of the Customer Decision Journey on and off line and new buying behaviour in omni channel. Finally, you have good knowledge of change management methods/tools and stakeholder management.

You have good leadership capabilities including ability to lead peers and stakeholders while communicating in an inspirational way combined with a strong ability to communicate and share creative ideas, concepts and solutions. In addition, you have creative and conceptual thinking skills, a holistic view and eye for details as well as strong ability to create shop design solutions. Linked to this, you have ability to take a holistic view of a national organisation and identify business opportunities accordingly as well as ability to follow up and measure performance of output and capture learnings to improve planning and performance moving forward.

• Influence and inspire the Shop Design co-workers and develop experiential shop design and range presentation to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in the stores
• Encourage peers to improve their knowledge of customer buying behaviour, gather insights from market intelligence and translate this knowledge into creative, aesthetic and commercial solutions that exceed customer expectations
• Actively support in developing the country business plan and contribute to delivering the department action plan and ensure that all layout and range presentation initiatives are focused on growing the IKEA business and supporting sustained long-term profitability
• Act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities and understand the impact of actions on the financial results
• Be responsible for developing shop design solutions for market specific needs and opportunities in line with local commercial priorities and common guidelines
• Continuously measure performance of shop design and product presentation to contribute to the functional review in order to identify improvement areas and ensure performance local and global
• Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within commercial and beyond to secure integration, common focus and to maximize impact
• You will be able to communicate clearly in English and Polish.
• In your daily work you will use AutoCAD or Revit design software.

n this role you will report to the Country Retail Solutions Manager.
This role is located in Poland Service Office, Janki.

In the role as Country Shop Design Leader, you are responsible for influencing and coaching Shop Design co-workers to innovate inspiring and relevant range presentation in retail spaces, making the customer journey an experience and thereby contributing to positioning IKEA. You are also responsible for leading the building and utilising the knowledge of consumer buying behaviour in local market to meet new and future consumer demands.

• that you would stay with us for a longer time - we provide a contract of employment,
• that you would develop and build your skill with us – together we will create a development path that will suit your needs,
•  to ensure the safety of you and your family - we provide medical care, Pension Plan and Accident Insurance,
• to appreciate your achievements,
• to give you the opportunity to choose additional benefits ex. cafeteria programme (including eg. Multisport card).