We are looking for you who can position the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in the Aarhus market. You see the connection between an exciting and inspiring customer journey, maximizing sales and long-term profitability. You understand the importance of constantly updating your team’s knowledge around people’s life at home, trends in the market and competence within home furnishing.
You are a natural and experienced leader, and you understand that good, solid leadership is the key to constantly developing your team and the business. You have good experience when it comes to setting clear goals and know how to get the team to work towards common goals.
You understand the importance of good corporation and you are a good communicator who is always clear in your expectations. Working in a structured way and delegating tasks and responsibility is natural for you.
You acknowledge and use people's experience and competencies and always secure development within your team. You use your abilities to maximize the impact of our store to ensure that visitors are converted into satisfied customers. It is preferred that you have solid knowledge of home furnishing and a strong visual eye.
We further prefer that you have:
A commercial mindset and experience within retail
Strong communication skills
A structured approach to your work
Experience in driving projects independently
A genuine interest in people and in life at home
A day in your life with us
As Interior Design Manager, your core responsibility will be to lead and guide the team and create an open and confident atmosphere.
You will have daily follow-ups on daily tasks. You and the team will strive to strengthen the IKEA Aarhus store’s positioning by combining the global strategies with national and local priorities and, as such, secure the relevance, attractiveness, and competitiveness of the IKEA brand in our market.
More specifically, your main responsibilities will be:
Optimizing the use of the store media by developing and implementing range presentation solutions that strengthen the connection between our product range and people’s life and needs at home
Securing extensive knowledge of the store areas and clarifying each area’s purpose to the customer journey
Reflecting the IKEA Brand identity and creating a strong visual impact in all commercial and sales support areas.
Constantly being updated on market trends and people’s life at home
Our team within IKEA
Where others see home furnishing products, we see functional solutions to create a better everyday life for the many people. With a great deal of passion, imagination and brainstorming, we turn colours, textiles and furniture into inspiring environments that excite, engage, and convince IKEA visitors that they can do it too.
As a team, you will work closely together and build on each other’s competence to become even stronger in the IKEA identity and home furnishing solutions.
Questions and support? Let's connect!
If you have any questions, please contact, Communication & Interior Design Manager, Camilla Fugmann Kristensen, camilla.fugmann@ingka.ikea.com.
If questions about the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Mette Forsberg, mette.forsberg@ingka.ikea.com
Please note we do not receive applications through email, but only through our recruitment portal on www.ikea.dk
Further informations
You will be on an individual, flexible contract for 37 hours per week.
There will be evening and weekend work
The role will be seated in our Aarhus Store
Salary within IKEA’s salary policy based on your competencies and including pension.
We have various benefits such as Health insurance, massage, canteen, staff discount, discounts club with external partners, yearly gift, and bonus.
You’ll be referring to Communication & Interior Design Manager, Camilla
We aim for a start date of October 1st, 2025, or by agreement
Apply no later than August 7th, 2025
We do not have any Mobility package (relocation) for this position.