Interior Designer – Doha Festival City

Job description / Role

Interior Designer (x3) | Doha Festival City

One of the companies bearing Al-Futtaim name is IKEA.

IKEA is the world's largest home furniture store, founded in Sweden over 60 years ago. Our operations around the world are constantly increasing with new stores and markets added to the success story.

At IKEA not only our furniture is down to earth, straightforward and inspiring, but so is our work ethics. Despite being the leading home furnishing retail franchisee across the world, we at IKEA still give you the room to grow! At IKEA creating a better everyday life for the many isn't only our vision, it's our way of life!

Our Com-In team is a highly specialised and an integral part the business as they work across the areas of Interior Design, Visual Merchandising & Graphic Design.  As the custodians of the IKEA brand; they are the team to ensure that the IKEA concept is communicated effectively throughout the store to our customers.

We are currently recruiting for Interior Designers for our brand new store in Doha.
To secure a high level of visual presentation of the IKEA product range and thereby strengthen IKEA as the home furnishing specialist and in order to reach the set commercial goals of the store.Your tasks will include:

* Design, plan and create functional, inspiring and highly commercial home furnishing solutions with layout to scale. Create inspirational mood board or collage, sketch your ideas, draw plan, details and elevations with Autocadd
* Suggest functional home furnishing solutions within own department in order to ensure growth in turnover, inspire visitors and satisfy their home furnishing needs.
* Work with the Communication and Interior Design, Sales and Logistics teams in planning and implementing the store's business plan and in-store commercial activities and promotions
* Physically implement plans and display the products around the store. Setting-up action plans, follow-ups and hands-on involvement is required
* Carry-out daily maintenance routine in assigned areas of responsibility to ensure that the store looks good, neat and tidy and safe for the customers to shop
* Daily coordination, collaboration and working with different departments and all work functions in the store such as sales, logistics and Communication and Interior Design team to revitalize displays or discuss and plan strategies to increase the sales.
* Working independently or with a big team, and frequent interaction with customers

Requirements

To be successful in winning this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

* A minimum 3 - 5 years of retail interior design or visual merchandising experience
* Higher education qualification  Interior Design or any relevant design/arts degree
* Passion for interior design and home furnishing, shop planning, visual merchandising, communication and a curiosity for how people live.
* A proven commitment to high quality execution within limited time frames. Attention to detail with a keen eye for aesthetics
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Knowledge of MS Office and design related software programs (AutoCAD)
* Self-reliant and motivated with a proven ability to work as part of a larger team `
* Good analytical skills, multi-tasking abilities, driven to learn new things
* Willingness to work in high volume, fast paced retail environment with exposure to conditions of carpentry and painting
* Full mobility is required, able to climb ladders, lift 50 lbs. (25kg), assemble display pieces
* Willingness to wear uniform. Willingness to work long hours, on weekends or overnight shifts whenever required

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.