Company descriptionA Smile, Common Sense, Passion for home furnishing, and Leadership; that's what we need in IKEA Al-Homaizi Kuwait - a company that believes in developing business through our Co-Workers.
Our energy comes from creating a better everyday life for the many people.
We simply recruit based on Values, Competence, Potential for growth, and Diversity.
Job descriptionA day in your life with us:
• Contributing to positioning the IKEA shop as the first choice for home furnishing in the local market.
• Providing home furnishing solutions for a single product or a combination of products to improve people’s life at home.
• Demonstrating the uniqueness of the IKEA product range through your visual merchandising competence and display techniques in different shop media and activity areas to distance us from the competition.
• Securing the use of the shop layout to create a good product overview and strong visual impact that facilitates the buying process.
• Where others see home furnishing products, we see smart solutions to create a better everyday life. With a great deal of passion, imagination and brainstorming you will turn colours, textiles and furniture into inspiring environments that excite, engage and convince IKEA visitors that they can do it too!
• Developing the shop layout to ensure it is used to create optimal visual impact, offers a good product overview and supports the commercial priorities. This provides an easy
buying process for our customers.
• Acting as a change sponsor by creating a direction, planning, managing and coaching co-workers in understanding the “why”, so we can move from knowing to doing.
QualificationWho are you ?
• Knowledge of IKEA Concept, including our vision and business idea, IKEA culture and values
• Significant experience of working as a visual merchandiser/activity coordinator at IKEA and a higher education qualification in visual merchandising.
• A deep passion, curiosity, and understanding of home furnishing, people’s everyday life at home, visual merchandising, interior design, retailing and communication.
• Acting as an inspiring and motivating leader who is confident in communicating and coaching backed by the ability to explain concepts and visual interpretation verbally.
• Actively seeking new and improved ways of working simply and cost effectively.
• You are a creative thinker who has commercial and visual competence as well as a keen eye for aesthetics to capitalise on the short- and long-term business opportunities within the retail environment.
• You are detail oriented and can work within set/tight deadlines.
More InformationA few more details for you
This position is full-time and is located in Kuwait. Some travel may be required.
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