Visual Merchandiser/Activity Manager

Who you are

As a Store Visual Merchandiser & Activity Manager, you will lead and develop your team of co-workers. You will be responsible for presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer with strong visual impressions that continue to surprise and inspire our customers while strengthening the IKEA brand.

• You have an education in visual merchandising or industrial design and at least 5 years' experience of working as a visual merchandiser.
• You have minimum 2 years' experience in leadership roles
• You are familiar with Revit
• You are able to inspire, motivate and engage people fully to reach set goals, and generate growth and long-term profitability.
• Continually seeking new opportunities to make improvements in the way we work and encouraging your team to do the same.
• Challenging your team and yourself in order to strengthen the IKEA Brand and at the same time exceed the expectations of customers.
• You bring a strong hands‑on mentality as 90% of your time will be on the shopfloor together with your team
• You speak both German and English fluently.

Your responsibilities

• Contributing to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market.
• Providing home furnishing solutions for a single product or a combination of products to improve people’s life at home.
• Securing the use of the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement commercial strategies throughout the store while creating a good overview and strong visual impact.
• Recruiting, developing and leading your team.

Does it sound like it could be something for you?

Our way of saying thank you:

• 28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
• Very attractive social benefits
• 15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
• You would rather travel to work by public transport? We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn learning platform
• Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
• Bonus payments for all employees

There are many opportunities for career development at IKEA. We encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad. Please submit your full application online via our website, please note however that we cannot consider applications and documents sent by email or post.

That's it from us.

That was a lot of information. We'd love to find out more about you. Just click on 'Apply now' and off you go.

We review applications on an ongoing basis and may stop the application process as soon as we have found the right person. So please apply as soon as possible.

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