Visual Merchandiser​/Activity Manager

Who you are

As a Store Visual Merchandiser & Activity Manager, you will lead and develop your team of co‑workers. You will be responsible for presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer with strong visual impressions that continue to surprise and inspire our customers while strengthening the IKEA brand.

• Education in visual merchandising or industrial design, and at least 5 years' experience as a visual merchandiser.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in leadership roles.
• Familiarity with Revit.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and engage people fully to reach set goals, and generate growth and long‑term profitability.
• Continual improvement mindset, encouraging your team to seek new opportunities to improve our work processes.
• Challenge your team and yourself to strengthen the IKEA Brand and exceed customer expectations.
• Hands‑on mentality – 90% of your time will be on the shop floor together with your team.
• Fluency in German and English.

• Contribute to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market.
• Provide home furnishing solutions for a single product or a combination of products to improve people’s lives at home.
• Secure the use of the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement commercial strategies throughout the store while creating a good overview and strong visual impact.
• Recruit, develop and lead your team.

• 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.
• Travel allowance – we pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket.
• 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. Please submit your full application online via our website; we cannot consider applications and documents sent by email or post.

We review applications on an ongoing basis and may stop the application process as soon as we have found the right person. So please apply as soon as possible.