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WHO YOU ARE

Are you passionate about people´s life at home and home furnishing? Do you find it motivating to contribute to a fast-paced, future-oriented retailing organisation and the unique IKEA product range? Are you endlessly intrigued by the world of systems and processes and can´t wait to support others with your expertise? Then go ahead and have a closer look at this opportunity in our Retail Solutions team!

We are eager to find a new co-worker who is keen to get creative and contribute to our future business goals. We believe you have proven advanced training in Interior Management, Interior Design, Art & Design or have a minimum of 5 years working experience with Home Furnishing & Retail Design Solution Development. You possess strong graphic design skills and would proudly showcase your portfolio of previous work. You are strong in project management and naturally apply strategic thinking in your everyday life.

You love to stimulate creative ideas to add value and new perspectives. You feel confident in navigating through times of change and is used to working in an agile environment. You champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance and always strive to meet quality standards and produce quality work products. You have acquired excellent knowledge in CS and would call yourself an expert in in-motion graphics 2D and 3D.

Furthermore, you have knowledge in the following areas:

• IKEAs corporate identity, core values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, to ensure right representation

• best practices for creating, publishing and editing content from a customer centric point of view

• structuring and presenting information in all touchpoints that makes sense to end user

• writing, structuring and editing business publications in English for print and digital media

• defining, planning, creating, executing and following up on range presentation documentation with an IKEA tone of voice and visual identity

• stakeholder management

• trends that influence home-furnishing, retail design and communication

WE HAVE A PREFERRED CANDIDATE FOR THIS POSITION.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As Graphic Design Specialist you will be responsible for designing both the physical and digital graphical concept of the design solutions to inspire, inform and captivate consumers. You will achieve this by, mainly, focusing on below areas.

You will be creating visual concepts to communicate IKEA ideas to consumers. You will develop communication carriers that identify the IKEA home furnishing unique offer, convey retail design messages, support our range presentation and verbalize our strategy. Moreover, you will create graphic design that illustrate the IKEA offer in an innovative way. To enable and ensure excellent graphic design you will outline templates and actively develop new content formats and graphic communication assets. New ways of reaching out to users digitally and physically within the Graphic Design field, to engage customers in every touchpoint and throughout the Customer Experience Journey, will always be on the agenda!

Furthermore, you will be producing and editing printed and digital publications ensuring the publications meet the Inter IKEA Systems B.V. written communication standards and IKEA tone of voice. Supporting the development of learning content in collaboration with the Learning Designers is also something to be included on your agenda.

Finally, collaborating across different functions within INGKA Group and different IKEA businesses units will be essential to secure the business growth plan and ensure that all departments that touches the customers journey work in unison identifying customers’ needs and preferences.

In this role you will report to the Graphic Design Manager. The role is located in Malmö at our Hubhult office in Hyllie.