Interior design manager

We're looking for someone to lead, inspire and share with the team their passion for home furnishing & interior design. As our first Interior Design Manager for IKEA Sylvia Park, New Zealand, you will communicate the IKEA brand to the many New Zealanders through our visual identity and share how our home furnishing solutions can help the many people to create a better everyday life at home in New Zealand.

At IKEA, work is more than just a job. It's work that has a positive impact and that is about creating a better everyday life for all New Zealanders.

How we achieve this is through our values - the compass that guides us in all we do. To us, togetherness, cost-consciousness, improvement and simplicity are more than just words.

Our culture is formed when we put these values into action. When we create a great place to work. When we stand up for equality, diversity and inclusion. When we promote health and wellbeing for our people, and the planet. When we lead by example. That's why we're constantly trying to find better ways to get things done, and to bring out the best in ourselves and others.


Working at IKEA has its benefits and rewards:

• Working at IKEA comes with numerous benefits and rewards:
• 5 weeks of Paid Annual Leave, Parental Leave Pay, and more
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support
• 15% discount for co-workers
• Affordable, nutritious meals with complimentary drinks in our co-worker restaurant.
• Provided co-worker uniform

But that's enough about us. Over to you now.

You are passionate about the IKEA brand and visual identity and how our home furnishing solutions help the many people to create a better everyday life at home in New Zealand. You are up to date with the latest home furnishing trends and are knowledgeable about Life at Home. You are inspired, motivated and driven to position IKEA as a leading home furnishing retailer in the New Zealand market. You are solution-focused and believe in challenging and finding new ways to inspire our visitors and co-workers with interior design solutions that meet and exceed their needs and dreams. You are an inspirational leader with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and drive the growth agenda alongside your commercial partners. You are driven to secure and strengthen the brand positioning of IKEA as a leader in life at home through the store layout and range presentation. Confident in communicating, influencing, and coaching others, you continually seek new opportunities to improve the way we work, and encourage your team to do so. You are curious and confident with digital tools and are able to find opportunities where digital advancements and solutions can support the retail environment and customer satisfaction. You have a passion for leading with integrity and authenticity and have the ability to champion IKEA values and encourage your team to embody these principles in their daily work. You have clear technical strengths, with experience working with design software and production tools including Revit, InDesign, Illustrator and/or Photoshop.

You're all for creating an engaging and inclusive co-worker experience where everyone can bring their whole selves to work. You reflect what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values, with the ability to lead our business through our people.

About this work area

As ​an Interior Design Manager​ your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Coaching and mentoring your Interior Design team through setting clear expectations, direction and follow up.
• Contributing to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in the market.
• For gathering and translating insights from home visit into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way.
• Applying your extensive home furnishing knowledge to create up to date room settings and other media, thereby creating vitality throughout the IKEA New Zealand Market.
• 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 identity and creating visual impact in all commercial, sales support and co-worker areas.
• Being a key contributor to the successful implementation of IKEA concept review and retail topic reviews.
• Securing the use of the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement commercial strategies throughout the market while creating a natural & commercial flow for our visitors, with a strong visual impact. 
• Support your leadership team in managing the recruitment, retention, performance management, succession planning and competence development of the team.

A little more about the job 

We may be experts in flatpacks, but it is your expertise in the following we are looking for:
• 3-5 years' experience in an interior design role within a large retail organisation. With at least 2 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Highly regarded to have experience in design software, Revert.
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to inspire, coach and develop people and secure succession to bring together a high performing team that can contribute to business goals. 
• Cultural competency and the ability to integrate equality, diversity, and inclusion practices within a workplace. 

What you need to know

• This role is ​permanent full time.
• The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $110,000 gross New Zealand dollars, not including superannuation/pension.
• The work location for this role is IKEA Sylvia Park and external warehouse.
• As our store operates 7 days per week, you must have the availability to work a rotating roster. You also have the availability to work one weekend shift per month (both Saturday and Sunday).
• As part of the recruitment process this role requires a pre-employment check for final candidates.