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Steering and Leadership

Country Xplore Studio Leader - IKEA Korea Service Office

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  • Gwangmyeong-Si, Gyeonggido, South Korea
  • Expansion
  • Normă întreagă

Descrierea postului

  • ID post vacant: 336557

  • Data afișării: 27/04/2026

    • Who you are

    We would like to share that Xplore, an Ingka Group function focused on exploring new business opportunities and driving innovation, will be establishing a new Xplore Studio in Seoul.
    Xplore explores new business opportunities and works through partnerships and collaboration to test, learn, and develop new ideas. It was established in September 2024 to help us move faster in a changing environment and to better prepare for future challenges. The Xplore Studio is the key enabler for this assignment, bringing ideas to life by co-creating, prototyping, and validating new solutions—working closer to customers, co-workers, and local culture.
    Following Barcelona and Copenhagen, the Seoul Xplore Studio is the first of its kind outside Europe, making it a particularly meaningful step.

    This position will report to Country Expansion & PMO Manager in IKEA Korea Service Office. This global project-based position begins with a one-year temporary contract and there is a possibility of extension with opportunities for advancement into other roles.

    Your motivation for the position:
    • Inspired by our vision "to create a better everyday life for the many people" and about creating an IKEA fit for the future.
    • Energized by exploring and developing new ways for IKEA to reach more of the many people, deliver new business and capability concepts, and retail solutions
    • Thrive in entrepreneurial and high-speed environment and driven to exceed goals.
    • Driven by curiosity, learning and identifying and solving ambiguous problems and pursuing large scale impact.
    • Strong identification with the IKEA culture and values

    We expect you to have:
    • Extensive IKEA business knowledge and deep understanding of IKEA decision making management structure and ways of working/processes.
    • Expertise in community building and engagement strategies with knowledge of industry trends and best practices
    • Experience in organizing and facilitating creative, design and innovation workshops and events
    • Deep knowledge of strategic design, design thinking, innovation development.
    • In-depth knowledge on the Big Shifts, macro-trends, people’s evolving needs, wants and desires as well as technologies and new disruptive solutions and business models.
    • Minimum of 4+ years of leadership experience in changing and complex environments
    • Proven entrepreneurial experience: Track record of taking ideas all the way to launch.
    • A self-starter, who thrive with autonomy and is comfortable working with little direction or oversight and with the ability to prioritize activities and orchestrate teams and resources for efficiency and effectiveness.
    • Proven experience in building and accelerating innovation development through external partners and collaborations to reach objectives leveraging make/buy decision-making.
    • Ability to engage and inspire stakeholders with narratives, and clearly envision and communicate a desirable future scenario.

    Your responsibilities

    • Responsible for in the country setting up, staffing and running studios as an essential part of Xplore ways of working where we collaborate, design, develop, test and accelerate the studio and grow talents, in strong collaboration with the market. Responsible for leading implementation of the studio playbook and continuously improve for better output.
    • Responsible to in the country establish and lead studio and community in the relevant location to interact, collaborate, design, develop, test, accelerate and showcase new solutions and concepts (in collaboration with co-workers, customers, communities and partners) for the value of the market that hosts the studio, and total IKEA.
    • Responsible to in the country develop and deliver interactive programs, workshops and events in close collaboration with Xplore Creative. Engage local partners, co-workers and other stakeholder, promoting a culture of speed, simplicity, open innovation and idea sharing.
    • Responsible for in the country leading engagement initiatives and facilitation in studio connected to the overall Xplore process (DNS+) and wider IKEA eco-system – how to interact through development year cycle (Development week, 10 jobs etc.)
    • Responsible for in the country building a scalable & cost-efficient testing infrastructure, leveraging both physical and digital capabilities to enable speed, quality, and market relevance while ensuring cost-effective ways to test, develop, and scale new solutions Share learnings and contributions with the extended Xplore Studio network.

    Our team within IKEA

    Growth is in our team DNA, we thrive on discovering new horizons, pushing boundaries and exploring uncharted territory. With different backgrounds and perspectives, we work together to analyse new and existing markets to find opportunities to expand our business and bring the IKEA offer to even more of the many people around the world. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad said: ‘Most things still remain to be done. A glorious future!’ We believe so 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.
    This recruitment position does not offer relocation support.

    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 Roise Han (rosie.han@ingka.ikea.com). If you have any questions regarding the position itself, please contact to Sherry Wan (wan.sherry@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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