Sales Interior Designer

To inspire and surprise our IKEA for Business customers by creating relevant, functional, aesthetic, and commercial home furnishing solutions that translate the IKEA brand and appeal to the local market.

Your assignment

• To support the IKEA for Business in providing interior decoration proposals for customers across all focus, with the aim to maximize IKEA for Business sales by offering attractive and comprehensive interior-design solutions, which reflects IKEA’s range and profile.
• Ensure that all interior design inquiries received are correctly interpreted and understood and that the proposals given to customers are relevant and live up to the general expectations.
• Support the Sales team in producing and presenting customized interior design solutions for larger project customers.
• In support of the store sales functions, review and clarify design requests from customers.
• Use home furnishing competence to create the IKEA furnishing solutions in the design proposal to business customers.
• Support the IKEA for Business Sales team in preparing and conducting presentations to larger customers.
• Ensure that the company’s competitive advantage within Sustainability is incorporated into the general design proposals, in support of the overall image of IKEA for Business.

Requirements

• Strong conceptual and creative understanding of the IKEA range, with ability to combine products into coherent offers, and communicate the IKEA concept to customers.
• Experience of working in a customer and commercial-oriented business.
• Experience of actively selling through understanding customers and their needs.
• Open to change/highly flexible.
• Ability to work together in a team and make quick decisions and take personal initiatives (often with a high sense of urgency).
• Ability to prioritise and organise your own work to make efficient use of the time available.
• Willing to multiskilling, able to work in more than one section/department in the store.
• Willing to work on weekend, shift hours and public holidays.