Come to the most influential small town in the world and influence people’s lives everywhere.

Can you really reach out to the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of nowhere? In Älmhult you can. Älmhult, Sweden is home to IKEA Communications AB, aka ICOM. ICOM produces content for IKEA.com, which is visited around 2,6 billion times a year. We're also behind the IKEA catalogue with a yearly circulation of around 210 million copies. On top of that, we churn out a ton of content for social media, not to mention motion media and 3D work so cutting edge that it makes the folks in California sit up and take notice. So what happens in Älmhult definitely doesn't stay in Älmhult. It reaches practically every corner of the globe.

Right now, we are looking for a Deputy Interior Design Competence Manager. Someone with the ambition to help make people´s home furnishing dreams come true. A communicator with an eye for aesthetics. Someone who’s passionate about interior design and life at home and enjoys leading people. And who likes to do things just that little bit differently.

The Interior Design Department at IKEA Communications creates and produces home furnishing solutions and communication based on their knowledge of the way people live …and the way they’d like to live. 

As Interior Design Deputy Manager you will lead our Interior Designers, helping them stay in tune with evolving technologies, trends and social changes, and enabling them to produce high-quality home furnishing solutions.

The assignment will include:

• Leading, inspiring and developing people while maintain a keen business focus.
• Ensuring that resources are best allocated to secure efficiency and high-quality output.
• Responsibility for communication and collaboration with clients as well as internal ICOM stakeholders regarding allocation, delivery and follow-up on Interior Design resources.
• Responsibility for sourcing external resources and building and maintaining an up-to-date network with excellent home furnishing competence.
• Keeping up with new techniques and the latest technology trends in VR, AR and beyond.
• Securing a high-quality execution of home furnishing solutions and ensuring the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in all communication.
• Leading by example in ways that express the IKEA values both within and outside IKEA operations.

We think you are goal and delivery oriented with a passion for operational excellence. Engaged and pro-active, you possess the ability to inspire and motivate others. You are interested in real people’s lives at home and are driven by the desire to constantly improve. You are also able to identify new trends around the world that can bring value to home furnishing communication. You will understand the IKEA key values and will be able to apply them in your daily work.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• The ability to priorities, organize and a possess a proven problem-solving ability.
• Good people skills and the ability to create confidence and build relations.
• Natural seniority and skills in leading creative people.
• The understanding that what’s good for the customer is good for us.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Bachelor degree within Design/Interior Design or equivalent knowledge acquired elsewhere.
• Extensive experience working in an interior design team within IKEA, a retail interior design team or interior design studio.
• Experience in managing, leading and developing a creative team, preferably gained in an interior design environment.
• Creative, commercial and visual competence.

Application

This position is based in Älmhult,Sweden and we look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as you have decided that this could be something for you. This position was posted 2017-11-20 and may be online up to 3 weeks following this date. We take candidates into the recruitment process continuously and close the position down once we have found the right candidate. Please note we do not accept applications by e-mail. 

If you are one of the candidates we think have the required experience we will contact you by email or phone to plan a telephone interview.

What is IKEA Communications

The mission of IKEA Communication (ICOM) is to create and produce excellent communication that positions IKEA as a strong, unique and meaningful brand. We contribute to IKEA with global consumer centric and content driven communication. We strive for an agile way of working in an everlasting journey of developing the business. At ICOM we believe that our workplaces should be about people. They should be sustainable and reflect our values and needs, both in the physical and the virtual working environment. We believe that we perform, innovate, collaborate and meet our business goals in the best way when we are able to choose where, when and how we work.

Älmhult has good commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund, Växjö and IKEA shuttle bus to Helsingborg back and forth several times per day.