Interior Designer

Overview of the role

The interior designer at IKEA is responsible for the visual presentation of IKEA's product range within the furniture showroom. As a part of the Com-In team, the designer ensures all designs and displays adhere to IKEA standards, contributing to an improved customer experience. Success in this role involves a blend of creative insight, practical design application, and a thorough understanding of interior design trends and customer needs. The designer collaborates with other teams such as visual merchandising and participates in varied design projects to enhance store offerings.

What you will do

Commercial

• Use home furnishing competence to create home furnishing solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes, and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity.
• Actively contribute to gathering insights from home visit interviews and translate this knowledge into locally relevant, functional, commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations.
• Stay up to date and knowledgeable about home furnishing, retailing, and trends to contribute in workshops for generating creative ideas.
• Assist in planning in-house projects and prepare drawings and perspectives according to IKEA concept.
• Implement and maintain all interiors and displays in the showroom according to IKEA standards.
• Conduct daily inspection of the room setting and ensure that damages are corrected immediately.
• Support the planning and implementation of the store commercial calendar.
• Maintain all areas in the store according to IKEA standards while following IKEA manuals to produce functional home furnishing solutions.

Operational

• Participate in other projects relating to store activities as needed, such as rebuilding business areas based on range feedback or performance issues.
• Assist visual merchandisers in projects or activities planned for the store.

Customers

• Show customers the extension of the range coordination along with various ideas and proposals for different room settings that are complete and realistic with accessories.
• Plan and decorate room settings to be inspirational for customers and offer effective home furnishing solutions.

Required skills to be successful

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Exceptional design and creative skills with attention to detail.
• Deep knowledge of home furnishing, market, social trends, and fashion.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork orientation with respect for diversity.

What qualifies you for the role

• Degree or diploma in interior designing or architecture.
• 0-2 years of experience in interior design firms or related fields.
• Proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, and Sketchup is a plus.
• Strong drafting, space planning, interior, and architectural design skills.

About Al-Futtaim Group

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.

Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.

AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls

Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers.

Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco.

Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.

The engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure and digital transformation.

The technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.

These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.