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Country Home Furnishing & Retail Design Manager - IKEA Korea Service Office

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  • South Korea
  • Interior Design & Visual Merchandising

Job Description

  • Job ID: 343425

  • Date posted: 11/05/2026

    • Who you are

    • Strong knowledge of home furnishing, retail design, visual merchandising, commercial presentation, and how to translate customer insights into inspiring and commercially effective solutions.
    • Strong understanding of the IKEA Concept, Democratic Design principles, IKEA Brand Identity, IKEA Culture & Values, and how to consistently bring them to life across all customer meeting points.
    • Strong understanding of the IKEA omnichannel reality and how physical and digital customer experiences work together to drive inspiration, conversion, and customer satisfaction.
    • Good understanding of consumer trends, retail trends, and developments within home furnishing, lifestyle, and design that influence customer expectations and shopping behavior.
    • Strong commercial understanding with the ability to balance inspiration, commerciality, growth, profitability, and customer experience.
    • Proven ability to contribute strategically to business planning, commercial strategy development, and commercial calendar processes.
    • Proven leadership capability with experience leading, coaching, and developing high performing teams in a fast changing retail environment.
    • Strong ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple projects, stakeholders, and operational activities while maintaining a clear strategic direction.
    • Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills with the ability to build trusted cross functional relationships across functions, units, and matrix organizations, while working closely with store partners to translate country strategies, commercial priorities, and guidelines into relevant, practical, and executable solutions that create strong customer and commercial impact on the shopfloor.
    • Strong ability to build trusted peer partnerships with Market Managers, creating close collaboration and clear alignment on priorities to ensure the stores receive the right support, direction, and service from the SO in order to enable operational excellence and business growth.

    Your responsibilities

    • Responsible for managing resources (people and money): Responsible for people planning within HF&RD. Coordinating and Planning Interior, Graphic and Shop Designer activities, as well as Support in External Marketing Events (running activities, re-furbishing and support to Expansion – as needed). Develop functional budget, ensure approval, forecasting, follow up and
    coordination with Commercial Manager to secure country goals and functional goals are covered                     
    • Responsible for positioning IKEA as a key home furnishing influencer in the local market and be a spokesperson for the home furnishing movement to internal and external partners
    • Secure the distinctiveness of the brand through the HF knowledge, HF solutions & HF experience across all meeting points
    • Act as a member of the Commercial Management Team and proactively contribute to the country business plan, commercial strategy and commercial calendar process
    • Contribute to the growth agenda through the specific knowledge and insights about Home Furnishing and Life at Home
    • Secure the integrated multichannel executions/output of the function and that solutions across channels drive inspiration and commerciality (in close cooperation with Selling and Marketing), in order to deliver to the business goals
    • Lead the Functional Reviews process and secure assessment of results to drive performance
    • Lead, coach and develop a high performing HF&RD team that will strongly contribute to reach the common goals (e.g. growth, profitability, brand positioning, customer experience). Lead the transformation of the HF&RD function in the country
    • Lead, support and develop the competence of the HF&RD Managers in Stores through Matrix relationship
    • Actively foster the interdependent leadership and active cooperation across all functions and units, within and outside Commercial, to secure integration, common focus and maximize impact (for example Digital, CFF (Customer Fulfilment), Expansion, Communications,
    Sustainability, BNOF (Business Navigation Operations & Finance), People & Culture)
    • Take the lead in driving an open and sharing climate, being a role model of the IKEA values where our co-workers are informed, engaged and empowered

    Our team within IKEA

    Where others see home furnishing products, we see smart solutions to create a better everyday life. With a great deal of passion, imagination and brainstorming we turn colours, textiles and furniture into inspiring environments that excite, engage and convince IKEA visitors that they can do it too!

    Apply now!

    For internals, please have a conversation with your line manager before applying. As part of the recruitment process, we will contact your line manager to request a reference. Please note that we cannot proceed with your application without a completed reference form from your line manager.

    If you have previously worked at IKEA, you must disclose this in your application. We may also contact your former IKEA organization for a reference.

    Please note that interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, and the recruitment process may close earlier than the stated deadline if a suitable candidate is found.

    If you have questions regarding recruitment process, please contact to rosie.han@ingka.ikea.com.

    보훈 및 장애여부 등

    당사는 「국가유공자 등 예우 및 지원에 관한 법률」 및 「장애인고용촉진 및 직업재활법」에 따라 보훈 대상자와 장애인에게 채용 전형에서 우대 혜택을 제공합니다. 관련 법령에 따른 대상자는 지원 시 해당 사항을 기재해 주시기 바랍니다.

    최종 합격하여 채용이 결정된 경우 근로관계 개시일부터 3개월의 *시용기간이 진행됩니다. 다만, 1회에 한해 3개월 이내에서 연장될 수 있습니다. (*시용기간은 수습기간을 의미)

    서류 반환 정책

    * 본 고지는 『채용절차의 공정화에 관한 법률』 제11조 제6항에 따른 것입니다.
    * 당사 채용에 응시한 구직자 중 최종합격이 되지 못한 구직자는 『채용절차의 공정화에 관한 법률』에 따라 제출한 채용서류의 반환을 청구할 수 있음을 알려 드립니다. 다만, 홈페이지 또는 전자우편으로 제출된 경우나 구직자가 당사의 요구 없이 자발적으로 제출한 경우에는 그러하지 아니하며, 천재지변이나 그 밖에 당사에게 책임 없는 사유로 채용서류가 멸실된 경우에는 반환한 것으로 봅니다.
    * 채용서류 반환 청구를 하는 구직자는 채용서류 반환청구서[채용절차의 공정화에 관한 법률 시행규칙 별지 제3호 서식]를 작성하여 당사 이메일 recruit.ikea.kr@ingka.ikea.com 로 제출하면, 제출이 확인된 날로부터 14일 이내에 지정한 주소지로 등기우편을 통하여 발송해 드립니다. 이 경우 등기우편요금은 수신자 부담으로 하게 되오니 유념하시기 바랍니다.
    * 당사는 구직자의 반환 청구에 대비하여 채용 여부가 확정된 날로부터 180일간 구직자가 제출한 채용서류 원본을 보관하게 되며, 그때까지 채용서류의 반환을 청구하지 아니할 경우에는 『개인정보 보호법』에 따라 지체 없이 채용서류 일체를 파기할 예정입니다.
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