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Ingka Group | How Ikea's largest retailer runs total rewards for a global workforce of more than 160,000 people

IKEA store exterior with customers
IKEA store exterior with customers

Konstantinos Karavidas, Group Total Rewards Manager for Ingka Group has spent 20 years learning the ins and outs of Nordic multinationals across a range of industries, having worked for Maersk, Danske Bank, Novo Nordisk, Chr. Hansen (now Novonesis), and since 2019, Ingka Group, which is IKEA's largest franchisee holding company.

Ahead of his appearance on stage at Unleash World, Karavidas offered a peek beneath the hood of his first and most formidable task in the role: defining and delivering Ingka Group's total reward strategy. 

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