Doctor to resign in the second half of last year.. expected to resign in the middle of this month
The successor is undecided..”In contact with many candidates”
In the News Reporter Nam Gung-gyeongㅣThe first female CEO in the distribution industry, Im Il-soon, president of Homeplus, announced his intention to resign.
Homeplus is known to be in contact with a number of candidates who have the ability and experience in online and offline distribution channels as the new CEO and president.
According to Homeplus on the 7th, President Lim announced that he would withdraw from Homeplus CEO and President for personal reasons in the second half of last year, and the company recently accepted this.
President Lim first requested the termination of the employment contract for personal reasons, and although the company held a few times, it is known that he decided to respect the intention of President Lim, thanks for his hard work and achievements.
Although the specific resignation date has not been disclosed, the resignation date is adjusted to match the final approval date for the business strategy for fiscal year 2021 (March 2021 to February 2022), so it is expected in the middle of this month. The company expects that there will be no business gap in implementing the business strategy completed in 2021, centered on each business unit head.
President Lim Il-soon made a relationship with Homeplus in November 2015 as Head of Finance (CFO, Vice President). Two years later, in May 2017, he became the head of the management support division (COO, senior vice president) and was promoted to the CEO in October of the same year.
He was the first female CEO in the distribution industry, including the Korean hypermarket industry, and at that time, President Lim’s inauguration attracted attention because he was the first person in the domestic distribution industry to break the’glass ceiling’ except for the owner’s family. .
During his tenure during his tenure, President Lim also made his name known as the main character who took the first step of being zero non-regular workers in the domestic industry. In July 2019, two years after being appointed as CEO, about 15,000 non-contracted employees of Homeplus at that time were converted to regular workers, and it is evaluated as leading a people-centered employment culture.
In addition, it was the first in the hypermarket industry to not establish a separate subsidiary or establish a new job category, and was issued as a’senior’, an existing regular employee without conditions, and received attention not only from major domestic industries but also from politics. At that time, out of the 23,000 employees of Homeplus, the proportion of regular workers was 99% (22,900), and only 1% (228) of non-regular workers (short-term contract workers).
In terms of business, President Lim is evaluated for converting Homeplus, which is centered on offline hypermarkets, into an’All-Line Future Distribution Company’ that is integrated with online during his three years and three months as CEO.
Offline, we successfully launched the’Homeplus Special’, an efficient model that combines the merits of warehouse-type discount stores and hypermarkets, and attempted to convert tenants in hypermarkets to community mall’Corners’, and neighborhood format In Homeplus Express has been reborn as a customer-friendly format focusing on fresh food, convenience food, and food.
In particular, all offline stores were strategically established as online logistics bases, and in some areas with high online demand, we created a’Fulfilment Center’ that utilizes idle space in offline stores to efficiently respond to crowded online demand.
A senior official at Homeplus said, “As a professional manager with deep insights on the distribution business and excellent in strategy and execution, he transformed Homeplus into a future distribution company.” To minimize the CEO gap, The situation has been completed up to the direction.”