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About IKEA Australia

IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943. IKEA's business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes.

Your role

Where others see furniture and homeware products, the store's visual merchandising/activity team have the power to remind people how one product can change the look and feel of a room. By understanding our customer’s needs and wants, you can provide relevant, functional, affordable, inspiring and sustainable solutions.

As a Visual Merchandise/Activity Co-worker, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Demonstrating the uniqueness of the IKEA product range through your visual merchandising competence and display techniques in different store displays and activity areas to distance us from the competition.
• Working with vitality to motivate people to visit the IKEA store more frequently.
• Engaging others through the ability to visualise and present a commercial idea.

Benefits

IKEA believes in people. All their co-workers bring their unique ideas and talent to work every day. They want to make sure every co-worker feels welcome and valued. Because when their co-workers grow, so does IKEA.

No matter where you are in the world, you’ll have a variety of benefits. Here are some of them:

• Tack! co-worker loyalty program: Tack! gives all eligible co-workers an extra contribution to their pension funds. Unit, position or salary don’t matter – everyone receives the same amount.
• One IKEA - Bonus program: The One IKEA Bonus program is a bonus system for all Ingka Group co-workers, based on performance on our values of simplicity and togetherness, with everyone in the same unit working towards the same objectives.

Work-life balance

As leaders, IKEA Australia believes in their people, involves and cares about their people. They want all co-workers to feel important, and your personal development makes them become better as well.

See what it's like to be a co-worker at IKEA Australia:

Culture & vibe

At IKEA, they are strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment that values inclusion and diversity, where you can bring your whole self to work, and we encourage applications across all cultural backgrounds, genders and abilities.

They know that when you grow, IKEA grows too. That’s why they create the space for people to develop new skills and spark new ideas. One way they encourage development is through Talent Focus Week, an annual, company-wide programme with sessions and workshops focused on professional growth to which all co-workers are invited.

Your destination, your path and how you get there is yours to decide.

About you

Here are the qualities IKEA Australia is looking for: 

• You love the work of implementing your designs from a sketch into reality, as you are a practical and hands on individual, with proven ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment.
• You seek an environment where you feel at home away from home and strive to work as a team to create different solutions.
• You have a deep passion, curiosity, and understanding of home furnishing and people’s everyday life at home, grasping the fundamentals of visual merchandising principles.
• You are a creative thinker, with commercial visual competence and a keen eye for aesthetics.
• A competent team player that has excellent communication skills.
• Experience with REVIT will be highly regarded but is not essential.
• design qualification, previous Visual Merchandising experience and experience in Adobe Creative Cloud & Microsoft Office is preferred.

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page to submit your application directly to IKEA Australia.