Shop Visual Merchandising Co-worker

A 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.

A 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.

Who 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.

A few more details for you
This position is full-time and is located in Kuwait. Some travel may be required. 

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