Drive Innovation in Home Furnishing – Join Us as an Interior Design Leader!

Hej!

I’m Natalia Subiros, Retail Solution manager for Norway, and I am currently looking to recruit an Interior Design Leader to our team!
Is it you?...

The role will be temporary starting as soon as possible until 31.08.2026 and is located at IKEA Service Office Billingstad.
 

Who you are
 

You are a daring,passionate and extrovert leader, with a deep understanding of home furnishing and Interior Design. You have a broad knowledge of trends that influence home furnishing and retail design, and understand consumer’s' living situations, needs, and frustrations in their everyday life. As leader, you have strong influential skills and passion for driving the Interior Design direction and business into the future through our community with your collaborative, inspirational and people-centered approach.
 

Together as a Team
 

we believe in teamwork and collaboration, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! Together, we will foster creativity, innovation, and continuous learning, helping us grow and succeed. Being part of the Retail Solutions team your energy, and drive will contribute to the overall success identifying business opportunities and reaching our goals.
 

A day in your life with us
 

Every day is an opportunity to inspire and be inspired: You will collaborate within HF&RD and Commercial team in SO and the NO markets,
to ensure your functional contribution into reaching a seamless experience for our customers across all different channels andto stimulate life at home interest.
Coaching, and mentoring are natural for you! Clearly communicating and sharing concepts, ideas as well as your HF knowledge. You inspire and motivate our community to ensure beautiful, outstanding home furnishing solutions that reflect the IKEA identity and achieving high results meeting our customers' needs and dreams.
 

Your responsibilities
 

In the role as Country Interior Design Leader, you will:
 

• Influence, inspire and challenge the Interior Design Matrix to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and home furnishing.
• Encourage and inspire Interior Design co-workers, leaders and peers to improve their knowledge of people's life at home, retailing and trends.
• Contribute to create additional market specific content across all channels.
• Be responsible for tailoring and completing inspiring, relevant and affordable interior design solutions.
   

You will also:
 

• Be responsible for developing and adapting interior design solutions for market and unit specific needs within and outside the traditional customer base.
• Continuously measure performance of product presentation and be able to identify improvement areas.
• Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within the organisation to secure integration, common focus and to maximise impact of common goals.

About this work area
 

Where others see home furnishing products, we see smart solutions to create a better everyday life. With a great deal of passion, imagination and brainstorming we turn colour, textiles and furniture into inspiring environments that excite, engage and convince IKEA visitors that they can do it too!