Country Interior Design Leader I (18-month term)

"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."

Location

Burlington

Employment type

Full Time Temporary

Department

Interior Design & Visual Merchandising

Deadline

2026-09-16

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Candidate profile (title) What you'll need to have

Candidate profile (text) - Default language • A formal qualification in Architecture, Interior Design, or a related field.

- 7 to 10+ years of experience in Interior Design, Retail Design, Visual Merchandising, or a similar discipline, with a proven track record of delivering results.
- 5+ years of experience leading, coaching, and influencing teams and stakeholders.
- Strong experience in retail environments, preferably within the home furnishing or home décor sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in retail design, consumer behavior, and creating customer-centric experiences.
- Proven ability to plan, execute, and measure business performance, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives.
- Strong project management skills with experience driving design initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Ability to combine creative vision with commercial understanding to enhance customer engagement and business outcomes.

Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us

Key responsibilities (text) • Provide strategic leadership for Interior Design, ensuring the IKEA identity is consistently reflected across all customer touchpoints, range presentations, and home furnishing solutions.

- Oversee the development and adaptation of cutting-edge, customer-centric, and commercially impactful interior design strategies aligned with IKEA standards, business objectives, and local market needs.
- Build organizational capability by guiding and developing Interior Design teams, fostering expertise in home furnishing trends, retail innovation, and life-at-home insights.
- Drive large-scale design and development initiatives that increase customer engagement, strengthen brand positioning, and support sustainable business growth.
- Partner in the development and execution of country business plans and HF&RD; strategies, ensuring design initiatives contribute to long-term profitability and market success.




- Provide strategic direction for market-specific design concepts and content across physical, digital, and omnichannel customer experiences.
- Establish performance measures and governance processes to evaluate the effectiveness of interior design solutions, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead collaboration with stores and business partners to deliver innovative, scalable, and cost-effective design solutions that address evolving customer and commercial needs.
- Serve as a key contributor to HF&RD; leadership objectives, influencing priorities, resource allocation, and strategic decision-making.
- Build strong partnerships with senior stakeholders across Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Customer Fulfilment, Communications, Sustainability, Finance, and People & Culture to ensure alignment and maximize business outcomes.
- Champion a culture of innovation, creativity, and customer focus, ensuring the delivery of inspiring, accessible, and commercially successful home furnishing experiences.
- Influence and shape the long-term vision for interior design, leveraging consumer insights, emerging trends, and market opportunities to strengthen IKEA's competitive position.

Team vision ( title) About this work area

Team vision (text) Our team is the voice of IKEA. We use words, pictures and videos to tell the story about IKEA, to build our brand and inspire people with our offer. We bounce ideas back and forth, we challenge each other and we are crazy passionate about communication. Of course we're also the ones who make sure to keep all our fellow co-workers informed, engaged and connected in a constantly changing business environment.

Local section (title) Why you will love us!

Local section (text) Here at IKEA, we want to ensure that we are creating a better everyday life for the many people, including our co-workers. We also believe that a job should be so much more than a job. That's why we focus on having an inclusive work environment where we celebrate your uniqueness, live our values, and ensure that we walk the talk when it comes to co-worker development. In addition, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to all co-workers including:





- Wellness days (in addition to your vacation days!)
- Extended health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
- RRSP with IKEA contribution matching options
- Eligibility for our annual IKEA bonus incentive plan
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Merchandise and restaurant discounts (plus free drinks and different healthy meal options in the co-worker restaurant, where available)
- Parental leave
- Bereavement leave
- Employee assistance program (that helps you support your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing)

Please note that this is a hybrid role which will require your attendance at the Burlington Service Office for a minimum of 3 days per week.

In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as Country Interior Design Leader I.

The starting rate/ salary for this position ranges from 75303 CAD to 103542 CAD and will be based on relevant work experience.

Why you will love us

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

What we all have in common

- Living our values
- Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
- A passion for home furnishing
- Performing & delivering while learning & developing
- Having fun!

Your uniqueness makes Ikea better

We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and be given equal opportunities, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion or any other dimension of their identity.

We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide appropriate accommodation which considers the applicant's accessibility needs due to disability. If you require accommodation, please contact

Note: A qualified job applicant with a disability is one who possesses the required skills, education, experience and training and who can, with reasonable accommodation, perform the essential functions of the position applied for.

📌 Country Interior Design Leader I (18-month term) (Burlington)
🏢 IKEA
📍 Burlington