Interior Design co-worker, IKEA Delft Store, full-time

Delft Store is looking for an experienced Interior Designer with 2 to 3 years of experience to join us.

As part of the Store Interior Design team you use your deep knowledge and experience of people’s life at home and your high level of home furnishing competence to show many functional, beautiful, sustainable and affordable solutions that are relevant to your local market. You also challenge and encourage the many people to see their homes in new ways.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to positioning the IKEA Delft store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market.
• Applying your home furnishing knowledge and interior design experience to ensure up-to-date room settings and other store media that exceed our visitors’ expectations.
• Stimulating and increasing the interest for home furnishing through constantly showing new and inspiring solutions that motivate people to visit the IKEA Delft store frequently.
• Using the richness of the IKEA product range to show distinct and different styles that appeal to many individual tastes and needs.
• Reflecting the IKEA Brand identity by creating visual impact in all commercial-, sales support and co-worker areas.
• Securing a vital and local market relevant store every day in order to appeal to the many and define a rich and creative Interior Design agenda.

Who are you?

You have an education in interior design or architecture and a deep passion, curiosity and understanding of home furnishing and people’s everyday life at home. You have already a few years of experience as an Interior Designer, in an IKEA store or retail environment. In addition, you:

• have a minimum of 2 to 3 years of proven work experience in a similar role.
• think creatively, have commercial visual competence and a keen eye for aesthetics.
• actively seek improved methods of working in a simple, lean and cost-efficient way.
• have a practical hands-on approach to your tasks and the ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment.
• are a good communicator with the ability to share and transfer knowledge in many different ways, both individually and in larger groups.
• have the potential and wish to grow within IKEA, with a desire to eventually develop into a leader or manager position.
• communicate well in English, written and spoken.
• have knowledge of Revit; this is a must.

What can you expect from IKEA Delft?

A small selection of our employment benefits:

• A 1-year contract with the possibility of extension and the prospect of a permanent contract.
• A gross monthly salary between €3000 and €3662 based on a full-time (40 hours) contract and work experience.
• 13th-month salary and travel allowance.
• 27 vacation days (based on full-time employment).
• Pension scheme.
• 15% staff discount on in-store purchases, so you can create the feeling of an IKEA showroom in your own home.
• Additional health insurance, on top of your own basic and supplementary health insurance.

About IKEA

IKEA is the world leader in home furnishing and takes pride in its values and Swedish culture. At IKEA, we believe in the power of the many. Together, we’re better and stronger. Whoever we are, we create as one team, where everyone plays an equal part. It’s a place where every individual is welcome, supported to take on new challenges, learn and lead by example — so together we can bring out the best in what we do.

Discover career opportunities in an inspiring international environment where entrepreneurial people are empowered to do what they do best. At IKEA Delft, around 950 enthusiastic co-workers work together every day to inspire our customers and offer great home furnishing solutions.

We do not offer a relocation package or sponsorship. It is also important that you hold a work visa.