Company Description
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. We operate in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand - and have an ambitious expansion plan to bring a little bit of Sweden to new markets in the region. We are part of the Ikano Group of companies and the only IKEA franchisee owned by the Kamprad family that founded IKEA.
We also develop, own and operate Shopping Centres that are anchored by IKEA and create walkable communities by including residential, office and other types of real estate in our development plans.
We work towards making sustainability a natural part of our everyday work. We are active in our communities, driving and supporting social initiatives that benefit children, women and the environment.
**Job Description**:
To create inspiring store solutions for an easy and convenient shopping experience and increasing vitality by translation deep knowledge about consumer buying behavior, store layout, range presentation and local market knowledge thereby contributing to positioning the IKEA brand in the local market as the home furnishing specialist and the IKEA store as an up-to-date and innovative destination that always offers something new.
**Qualifications**:
- Ability to lead creative processes
- A strategic thinker with a creative and practical mind that can lead and contribute to setting clear directions, purposes and objectives and are able to share and explain to the team
- Being able to transform strategies into conceptual visual merchandising solutions and tangible actions
- Ability to influence and convince with solid knowledge and clear communication and interpersonnal skills
- Capability to work internationally with cultural sensitivity
- Presentation and facilitations skills
- Fluent written and verbal communication in English
- Ability to identify, initiate and transfer development and innovation opportunities into tangible actions
- Ability to visualise the one IKEA Brand and provide seamless solutions across all IKEA touchpoint
- Ability to lead the team and rise their knowledge and competence.
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