Head of Home furnishing and Retail Design department
Ikea - Other Locations
Total des années d'expérience :16 years, 7 Mois
Responsibilities:
To lead, develop and inspire the Communication & Interior Design team (Retail design department,
Interior design department and Graphic communication department - 3 managers and 35 co-workers)
and other functions in the store in increasing the home furnishing interest of the many people and
creating demand for home furnishing solutions and know how in the local market.
Accountable for the store layout, range presentation and store communication thereby contributing to
positioning the IKEA brand as the leader in life at home.
Results:
Fast finish of on-boarding process. Build strong relationship and good level of cooperation in store
management team and in country commercial team.
People part and recruitment - Country project pool commitment (plus 18 co-workers recruited in 4
month) secure succession for all key positions - exceed expectation.
Collaboration and co-creation with country office (5 pilot projects and 3 country tests) - exceed
expectation.
Confirmed successor (2-3 years) for Country commercial activity & event leader.
Responsibilities:
Led team in creating innovative concepts and designs from ideation to execution.
Managed a team of designers and visual merchandisers including hiring, development, and annual
reviews.
Lead the design process of shopping mall common areas lay out, stores and touch points.
Control of production, selection of materials, work with contractors. Budgeting. Organizing tender.
Results:
Build a team of professional co-workers (growth from 2 to 6 co-workers).
Secure succession to Leader position.
Establish a quality control and project deadlines system that helped increase the number of projects by
20%.
Responsibilities:
Managed a team of visual merchandisers.
Communicating with stakeholders at all levels (sales, commercial and marketing departments).
Create schemes, planograms, and rules presentation of the goods.
Create Layouts of retail spaces based on equipment capacity, rules and store location.
Schedule merchandising changes based on marketing efforts, product delivery dates and seasonality.
Visual merchandising trainings.
Responsibilities:
Organization of the department’s (2000 sq. m.) work process.
Development of merchandising standards.
Control display of goods, stocks and seasonal campaigns.
Personnel management (up to 10 people): planning work schedules, adaptation, trainings.
Together with commercial manager work on assortment optimization, news, and sales campaign.
Analysis of the department’s key performance indicators.
Responsibilities:
Keeping the course of design disciplines.
Development of lesson plans.
Responsibilities:
Designed interior design projects.
Execution drawings and sketches.
Interaction with clients and supervising.
Winner of regional and country design competitions. Recipient of Governor's Scholarship.