Visual Merchandising/Activity Co-worker

How and along which products can I best guide the customer through the store? And how do I ensure that the customer puts something in their shopping cart or yellow bag at a certain moment? As a visual merchandising activity employee at IKEA Amsterdam, these are the questions you focus on. While colleagues work on designing and setting up homes and room settings, you work on a product level. In this way, you also make an indispensable contribution to a better home for everyone.

Een dag met ons in jouw leven
You ensure that the customer finds their way through the store and is triggered to make purchases along the way. How do you do that? By effectively highlighting all the benefits of our versatile products. Does the customer already know that this wardrobe can also be used as a shoe cabinet? Or that you can change the cover of this sofa to wash it or give it a different color? Even if a product is not selling well, you will work with the sales manager to create a plan to bring more (or better) attention to this product. What else will you do:

• Walk rounds before the store opens so you can restock products and organize back walls, for example.
• Determine where new products can best be placed and take this into account during the design phase in Revit.
• Place new products in the department according to IKEA standards.
• Participate in meetings with your team manager and the entire department about upcoming projects, how everyone is doing, and which issues need to be resolved.
• Contribute to larger projects and renovations where new season-related products are implemented throughout the store.

Wie je bent
At IKEA, we believe it's important that you can be yourself. And that you fulfill this creative and entrepreneurial role in a way that suits you. You are good at planning and organizing and work meticulously. This helps you keep your department in order. You are also practical and commercially minded. Do sales figures soar after you make adjustments at the product level? That makes you happy. Furthermore, you can explain ideas and visual concepts in words, even to people who do not have a creative role. And if something does not go as planned, if the IKEA standards do not align with reality this time, or if we miss sales opportunities? Then you come up with a suitable solution or alternative. What else you need:

• You have knowledge of design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, or AutoCAD, so you can quickly master Revit as well.
• You speak and write English.
• You are motivated to work evenings and weekends.
• You have a higher professional education (HBO) level of thinking and working. You have achieved this through a creative education, preferably in interior design, or through work experience.