Expansion store design specialist

Who you are

As a Store Design Specialist - Expansion at IKEA, you will be instrumental in shaping our stores' architecture and design to enhance customer experiences. This role focuses on leading the store design process for new stores and projects, from initial sketches to finalized design solutions. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including retail, commercial, and construction, to meet IKEA's standards in store aesthetics, functionality, and cost-efficiency

Your responsibilities

Lead Store Design Projects: Guide and coordinate the entire design process for IKEA stores, ensuring that each project is in line with IKEA's customer meeting point (CMP) standards.

Pre-Project Support: Contribute to potential site selections and configurations by preparing sketches, rough drawings, and design evaluations.

Design Compliance: Work closely with various teams (retail, safety, facilities, etc.) to ensure designs meet all technical, zoning, and local building code requirements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between CMP design, retail architects, design leaders, and commercial planners for smooth project handovers.

Stakeholder Engagement: Represent store design needs in forums, and present designs for feedback and approval at key stages.

SISAN Contributions: Provide design solutions for the Store In Shape As New (SISAN) projects, impacting architectural aspects of existing stores

Together as a team

Growth is in our team DNA, we thrive on discovering new horizons, pushing boundaries and exploring uncharted territory. With different backgrounds and perspectives, we work together to analyse new and existing markets to find opportunities to expand our business and bring the IKEA offer to even more of the many people around the world. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad said: 'Most things still remain to be done. A glorious future!' We believe so too :)