Visual Merchandiser​/Activity Manager

You have a degree in Visual Merchandising, Industrial Design, or a related field, combined with proven experience in creating inspiring and commercially successful retail environments.

• You are a strong and inclusive leader who can inspire, motivate, coach, and develop people, enabling your team to achieve business goals, drive growth, and contribute to long-term profitability.
• You have a solid understanding of the IKEA concept, brand identity, home furnishing solutions, and customer experience, and you are passionate about bringing these elements to life in the store.
• You are proactive and solution-oriented, always looking for opportunities to improve ways of working, optimize performance, and create better results for customers and the business.
• You enjoy challenging both yourself and your team to continuously develop, strengthen the IKEA brand, and exceed customer expectations.
• You build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the store, creating alignment and ensuring a consistent and inspiring customer experience.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing creativity, commerciality, and operational excellence to deliver outstanding results.

As a Visual Merchandising Team Leader, you will play a key role in strengthening the IKEA brand and creating an inspiring shopping experience that makes IKEA the first choice for home furnishing in the local market.

You will:

• Lead, recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing Visual Merchandising team, creating an environment where people can grow and perform at their best.
• Create and implement inspiring home furnishing solutions that showcase the IKEA range and help customers improve their everyday life at home.
• Use the store layout and visual merchandising tools to support commercial priorities, drive sales, enhance customer flow, and create a strong visual impact throughout the store.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders across the store to align commercial priorities, ensure seamless execution, and achieve common business goals.
• Secure the implementation and continuous development of IKEA visual merchandising standards, concepts, and ways of working.
• Drive commercial growth and profitability by combining creativity, customer insight, and business understanding.
• Challenge and inspire your team to continuously improve, strengthen the IKEA brand, and exceed customer expectations.
• Contribute to delivering an outstanding customer experience by creating inspiring, relevant, and affordable home furnishing solutions for the many people.

This is an exciting opportunity for a leader who is passionate about people, home furnishing, and creating commercial solutions that inspire customers every day.

We want our employees to be happy and healthy.

It also means saying 'thank you'!

Our way of saying thank you:

• 28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
• Very attractive social benefits
• 15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
• You would rather travel to work by public transport? We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
• Free parking facilities
• Unlimited access to the Linked In learning platform
• Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
• Bonus payments for all employees

There are many opportunities for career development  encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad.

That's it from us.

That was a lot of information. We'd love to find out more about you.