Interior Design Manager

• Job ID: 313787

• Date posted: 17/10/2025
  What you'll need to have

• • You are an inspiring and motivating leader who is passionate about fashion, design and home furnishing trends, able to reflect the IKEA identity and create visual
    impact in all commercial, sales support and co-worker areas.
• • You love challenges and together with your team you are willing to further strengthen the IKEA brand and exceed the expectations of our customers.
• You have at least 5 years of managerial experience in Interior Design or visual merchandising in a retail environment preferably home furnishing sector.

• You have a broad knowledge of trends that influence home furnishing, retail design and communication to gain insight to a more appealing products'
  presentation for customers as well as of how to steer the customers to the right product or service for their needs.

• • You are capable to lead while communicating in an inspirational way with IKEA tone of voice combined with a strong aptitude to share creative ideas, concepts
    and solutions.
• • You can apply abstract design concepts and guidelines to develop inspiring home furnishing ideas creating vitality throughout the store.

What you'll be doing day to day

• • Be responsible for translating customers' insights into relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed all customers'
    expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way.
• • Maintain deep and up-to-date knowledge about home furnishing, retailing and trends to implement high-quality, simple, cost-effective and efficient furnishing
    solutions.
• • Actively support in the development of the department's action plan with interior design initiatives that are focused on business growth and long-term
    profitability.
• • Ensure that the team constantly keeps customers in mind, minimizes any inconvenience and communicates necessary information that will stimulate life at
    home interest and drive the home furnishing movement.
• • Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within commercial and beyond and be responsible for adapting interior design solutions for market and unit specific
    needs to create a better everyday life for the many people.
• • Lead and manage the interior design team through planning, coaching and coordinating interior design activities in order to create the store showroom matrix
    that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations and price levels that provide distinctive visual impressions.

Our team within IKEA

Our team is the voice of IKEA. We use words, pictures and videos to tell the story about IKEA, to build our brand and inspire people with our offer. We bounce ideas back and forth, we challenge each other and we are crazy passionate about communication. Of course we're also the ones who make sure to keep all our fellow co-workers informed, engaged and connected in a constantly changing business environment.

Why you will love us

Here at IKEA, we want to ensure that we are creating a better everyday life for the many people, including our co-workers. We also believe that a job should be so much more than a job. That's why we focus on having an inclusive work environment where we celebrate your uniqueness, live our values, and ensure that we walk the talk when it comes to co-worker development. In addition, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to all co-workers including:

- - Wellness days (in addition to your vacation days)
- Extended health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
- RRSP with IKEA contribution matching options
- Eligibility for our annual IKEA bonus incentive plan
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Merchandise and restaurant discounts (plus free drinks and different healthy meal options in the co-worker restaurant, where available)
- Parental leave
- Bereavement leave
- Employee assistance program (that helps you support your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing)

P.S. In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as: Interior Design Manager.

The starting rate/ salary for this position ranges from 58,960 CAD to 73,700 CAD and will be based on relevant work experience.