Visual Communication and Interior Design Manager

IKEA; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

WiselyPay – earned wages early

Paid parental leave

KINDERCare tuition discount

Retirement and bonus plans

Co-worker discount

Pet insurance

Education assistance

Safety shoe reimbursement

Telehealth visits

Dental and vision plans

Medical and Rx plans

Job summary

IKEA in New York is seeking a store leadership professional to drive the implementation of the brand's visual strategy across all-store levels, ensuring a superior customer experience. You will translate guidelines, lead and develop teams, and optimize store layouts to showcase the range and communicate effectively.

The role requires strong leadership and retail experience, with a focus on design-oriented presentational standards and customer-centric execution.

Qualifications

• 5 years leadership experience.
• Retail experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead all-store implementation processes and ensure consistent execution of the brand's visual strategy to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
• Translate corporate guidelines and set directives to elevate brand presentation at the store level.
• Inspire and develop the team to increase home furnishing interest and create demand for home furnishing solutions.
• Secure relevant and inspiring range presentation solutions, optimal store layouts, and effective store communication.
• Communicate local market knowledge to ensure solutions meet customer needs and understand interior design, visual merchandising, and graphic design concepts.

Skills

Leadership experience

Retail experience

Job description

Why we will love you

You can lead, motivate and inspire a team in reaching goals, generating growth and long-term profitability. You have experience in setting and implementing action plans and budgets. You have a design-based education and experience in working in a design-oriented role.

What you'll be doing day to day

• Responsible for leading all-store implementation processes and driving consistent execution of the brand's visual strategy to create an exceptional customer experience.- Translates the corporate guidelines and sets directives to elevate the brand presentation at the store level.- Leads, develops, and inspires the team to increase home furnishing interest with customers and create demand for home furnishing solutions.- Secures relevant and inspiring range presentation solutions, optimal store layouts, and effective store communication.- Challenges the team to take actions that develop both short term and long term opportunities.- Ensures various store teams have the correct understanding of store layout, range presentation, and store communication.- Responsible for communicating local market knowledge to ensure solutions being planned meet the needs of the customer.- Understands and can speak to interior design, visual merchandising, and graphic design concepts.

Together as a Team

In our team we take pride in seeing everyone around us grow and develop, and we encourage people to experiment, test, try - and sometimes fail. As long as they learn along the way! We know that everything is changing more rapidly today and that we sometimes need to lead in the unknown. So we throw ourselves out there to explore new possibilities and ways of doing things to make both our people and our business prosper.

Qualifications

• 5 years leadership experience.- Retail experience preferred.

Job Details

JOB TYPE: Salaried, Exempt

BENEFITS ELIGIBLE: Yes

HOURS: Retail environment; Open availability required Monday-Sunday.

The salary pay range is $89,847 - $128,414

International relocation assistance for Internal INGKA candidates only.

At IKEA, taking care of our co-workers and their dependents is a top priority. That’s why we offer our eligible, regular co-workers (part-time and full-time) a full menu of benefits and perk options to help everyone maintain work and life balance, be well and plan for their future. Join our team and enjoy these benefits and so much more!

• Generous paid time off, holiday and sick time
• WiselyPay – get earned wages up to two days early
• Paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks)
• KinderCare tuition discount
• Retirement and bonus plans
• Co-worker discount, meal deal, and referral bonus
• Pet insurance program
• Education assistance and learning programs
• Safety shoe reimbursement
• 24/7 telehealth visits
• Dental and vision plans
• Medical and Rxplans (must work min. 20 hrs/wk)
• A fun and inclusive work environment