Interior Designer - IKEA Khon Kaen

Company Description

IKEA is the world’s largest home furnishing retailer with 460 stores across more than 60 countries. IKEA Thailand is part of Ikano Retail, one of 12 IKEA franchisees and the only one owned by the family of Ingvar Kamprad, who founded IKEA in 1943. IKEA Thailand creates a better everyday life 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. Ikano (Thailand) Ltd. owns and operates five omnichannel stores in Thailand, including IKEA Bangna, IKEA Bang Yai, IKEA Phuket, IKEA Sukhumvit and IKEA Chiang Mai. To learn more, visit IKEA.co.th

Job Description

Your assignment

• Use home furnishing competence to create home furnishing solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity.
• Actively contributes to the gathering of insights from home visit interviews and translating this knowledge into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way.
• Contribute to the creation of a Showroom matrix that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations and price levels to create a good tempo with distinct visual impressions.
• Secure high quality, simplicity, efficiency and cost consciousness when planning and implementing all range presentation solutions using global tools and best practices.
• Stay up to date and knowledgeable about home furnishing, retailing and trends in order to contribute in workshops to generate creative ideas.
• Contribute to the content of the department action plan with initiatives that will grow the business and support long-term profitability and execute the agreed plans together with the team and other functions.
• Act as a key member of the team using expertise to assist in sales.

Qualifications

Your profile

• A passion for fast-paced, future-oriented retailing, home furnishing, people’s life at home and the IKEA product range. Provide home furnishing solutions that improve people’s life at home.
• Driven to exceed goals and a desire to improve ways of working.
• Knowledge in home furnishing and range presentation the IKEA way (layout as a commercial tool, store media, display techniques).
• Understand interior design and trends that influence home furnishing and life at home in the local market and the outcome of market research, e.g. IKEA Customer Satisfaction Survey, IKEA Brand Capital.
• Understand the work method for presenting the IKEA range. IKEA Concept and IKEA Brand objectives. IKEA mechanical sales system.
• Ability to combine commercial, aesthetic and practical skills. Generate, visualize and present new ideas and work together with others in a team.
• Confident in approaching and communicating clearly with different people in various situation.
• Have a flexible and hands-on approach to responsibilities as well as the ability to meet set deadlines.

Additional Information

Department: Interior Design & Visual Merchandising