Recruitment Manager, IKEA Thailand
- Full-time
- Department: People & HR
Company Description
IKEA is the world’s largest home furnishing retailer with 460 stores across more than 60 countries. IKEA Thailand is part of Ikano Retail, one of 12 IKEA franchisees and the only one owned by the family of Ingvar Kamprad, who founded IKEA in 1943.
IKEA Thailand creates a better everyday life by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low, that as many people as possible can afford them. Ikano (Thailand) Ltd. owns and operates five omnichannel stores in Thailand, including IKEA Bangna, IKEA Bang Yai, IKEA Phuket, IKEA Sukhumvit IKEA Chiang Mai, and IKEA Khon Kean. To learn more, visit IKEA.co.th
Job Description
About the Job
You will lead the recruitment agenda for IKEA Thailand, attracting and securing the right people and competence to grow our business. Guided by the IKEA values, you will be a trusted business partner to leaders and HR teams across all business units, ensuring our recruitment approach supports both current and future business needs while creating a great candidate experience.
Your assignment
Promote and strengthen the IKEA culture and values throughout the recruitment journey, ensuring we attract people who share our values and contribute to our business and culture.
Lead the IKEA Thailand recruitment strategy and agenda, translating business and workforce needs into proactive talent acquisition plans.
Partner closely with business leaders and HR teams across stores and the Service Office to understand workforce needs, recruitment priorities and future competence requirements.
Drive effective end-to-end recruitment, ensuring the right talent is attracted, assessed and selected in a timely, fair and professional way.
Build strong talent pipelines for critical, high-volume and hard-to-fill roles to support business continuity and future growth.
Strengthen IKEA Thailand's employer brand and talent attraction approach, creating relevant ways to engage diverse talent in the external market.
Ensure a great and consistent candidate experience across all touchpoints, from attraction and application through selection and onboarding.
Use recruitment data and market insights to identify trends, recruitment challenges and opportunities, and translate them into clear actions and improvements.
Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools and ways of working to increase quality, speed, simplicity and cost effectiveness.
Champion equality, diversity and inclusion throughout recruitment, helping IKEA attract talent from different backgrounds and build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Build recruitment capability among hiring managers and HR teams, ensuring strong interviewing, assessment and selection practices across the organisation.
Lead and develop the IKEA Thailand Recruitment team, creating clear priorities, strong collaboration and shared accountability for delivering the recruitment agenda.
Manage recruitment partners, channels and budget effectively, ensuring resources are used in a cost-conscious way while delivering the right business outcomes.
Stay up to date with the Thailand talent market, recruitment trends, technology and local employment legislation to ensure our recruitment practices remain relevant, competitive and compliant.
Actively contribute to the Country People agenda, connecting recruitment priorities with workforce planning, talent, succession and the overall IKEA Thailand People strategy.
Note
This position will be based in IKEA Bang Na. Frequent travel to the other IKEA Thailand stores is required.
Qualifications
Your profile
- Passionate about growing the business and people together by attracting the right talent.
- Strong people and communication skills to engage, connect and build trusted relationships with candidates and stakeholders.
- Strong business understanding with the ability to translate recruitment needs into effective talent solutions.
- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to work independently while contributing strongly as part of a team.
- Strong collaboration skills to partner across functions and deliver recruitment priorities.
- Dedicated to creating a great candidate and co-worker experience throughout the recruitment journey.
- Curious and proactive, always looking for ways to improve recruitment processes and ways of working.
- Goal-oriented, with a high level of energy, ownership and motivation to deliver results.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, diverse and multidimensional environment with changing priorities.
Additional Information
Please apply by 27th November 2026.
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