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Commercial Food Market & Bistro Manager

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United Kingdom , Cardiff

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Salary:

30000.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

Take charge of a vibrant food destination that brings a taste of Sweden to every IKEA visit. As Commercial Food Market & Bistro Manager, you’ll lead the team behind our takeaway bites and specialty food shop—driving daily operations, delighting customers, and delivering commercial success with every delicious detail. The Swedish Food Market and Bistro is located after our check-outs and is the last place in-store that our customers will often visit. This is a fast-paced role, where you can provide an affordable and delicious snack, and give our customers the chance to bring our food products home with them.

Job Responsibility:

  • Implement the commercial calendar, seasonal range changes and our IKEA cultural events
  • Secures the appropriate processes and procedures to secure food safety, quality of food, enhance operational efficiency, introduce vitality and to reduce waste
  • Ensure high quality standards of customer experience in the customer restaurant
  • Secure a lean, diverse and hard working team through building IKEA Food competence by empowering co-workers to act on their own initiative
  • Ensuring that our customers are always in focus, having a daily dialogue with them and learning from and acting on their feedback

Requirements:

  • An enthusiasm for food and leadership experience in a fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritise and organise your own and others workload
  • Significant commercial knowledge and food safety awareness with experience of working in a food service business
  • Business-minded and goal orientated with a customer focus, ability to make quick decisions and take personal initiatives and open to change
  • Leading others, you will have good communication skills that can assist to build relationships with co-workers and customers
What we offer:
  • 15% IKEA discount & discount portal helping you save £100’s on High Street retailers
  • Life Assurance of four times your pay, enhanced statutory pension contributions and interest free loans
  • Given Day - Additional days’ paid leave to take at any point during the year, when it's important for you
  • Subsidised co-worker restaurant, allowing you to have affordable, healthy and delicious hot meals, salads, desserts, free tea and coffee, etc. on shift

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 25, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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