Who you are
You nurture a deep passion, curiosity, energy and understanding of home furnishing and people’s everyday lives at home. You ideally have previous leadership experience working in a graphic communications team within IKEA, an advertising agency or design studio. You incorporate creative and commercial visual competence with a keen eye and appreciation of aesthetics in graphic design and possess extensive experience of using graphic design software and production tools including InDesign, Illustrator and/or Photoshop. As a leader you enjoy taking responsibility and acting as an inspiring and motivating role model with a commercial mindset and are confident in communicating, influencing, and coaching others. You have a strong desire to continually seek out opportunities that improve the way we work. You will be required to work on weekends on a rotating schedule and public holidays if needed.
**Responsibilities**:
As the Graphic Communication Leader, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Contributing to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market.
- Taking a leading role in overseeing the complete range of customer store communication.
- Ensuring IKEA graphic communication is explicit, consistent, understandable, uncluttered and correctly placed.
- Using your graphic design skills, the IKEA Concept and IKEA visual and copy identity to create and implement graphic solutions that support commercial priorities and our visual uniqueness.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate store communication strategies that support a convenient shopping experience by using the knowledge about life at home and shopping behaviour in the local market.
- Comfortable with the dynamic between hands on work and strategic implementation.
About this work area
The graphic communication team is responsible for ensuring all graphic communication in and outside the IKEA store complies with IKEA visual and copy identity guidelines. The team have the exciting challenge of presenting the uniqueness of the IKEA Brand and distance the IKEA store from the competition. The graphic communication team develop and implement efficient and effective store communication that supports the customer journey.
📌 Graphic Communication Leader
🏢 Ikea
📍 Richmond