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Thanks to us, customers, co-workers and people at home can have a better everyday life through food that’s good for both people and planet. Together we serve more than 660 million customers yearly at the IKEA restaurants worldwide, underlining our Scandinavian heritage by offering a modern taste of Sweden. We also offer a variety of foods in our bistros and in the “Swedish Food market”. We are a diverse group of people who all live by the motto: Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is!
Job Responsibility:
Contribute to the total commercial offer
Contribute to the work of the global commercial agenda by developing long term plans for Food across all customer meeting points for business performance and great customer experience
Act as member of the Market Support management team
Utilise the process for development and innovation to create and deploy new solutions for Food and ensure the commercial execution and operational excellence of IKEA Food in an omnichannel reality on behalf of Ingka Group
Ensure strong support and contribution to the IKEA Food Health and Sustainability strategy
Secure a successful, consistent and relevant collaboration across IKEA in general, and Core Business Franchise and HFB Food (IKEA of Sweden) specifically, to ensure common business goals are met and key stakeholders have needed information
Responsible to coach, develop and facilitate a high performing and learning Food matrix community. Enable all team members to create communities for sharing best practices with and across the markets. Give input to the talent pipeline, contribute to the development of potentials and ensure a calibrated view on potential and succession needs and opportunities within the function
Secure the development of market specific range for the markets in order to drive traffic and generate profitable growth for IKEA
Responsible for the development of the co-worker restaurants in the markets, contributing to happy and satisfied co-workers
Lead, recruit for succession, coach and develop a competent, high performing and learning Food organisation/team to ensure successfully achieving set goals
Contribute to one IKEA Business plan and lead the business plan process within the dimension of the IKEA Food and set the preconditions for the implementation in all markets and channels
Responsible for that the IKEA Food organisation are compliant with internal IKEA demands and external legal demands
Manage and lead the achievement of our key goals/retail score card through monitoring the performance, identify gaps, initiate actions and create prerequisites for improvement
Create an open and sharing climate and actively foster an empowered interdependent leadership culture which nurtures collaboration and co-creation across all functions and units, within and outside Market Support and Ingka, to secure integration, common focus and maximize impact
Requirements:
5-8 years of experience leading business around Food with a proven record of successful business development and performance over time
Proven record of developing organisations, spotting, developing and exporting talents
Experience from leading Business and People in transformation processes, in person as well as remotely
Strong documented leadership skills guided by IKEA Values
Proven track record of interdependent leadership- leading business agendas across organizations IKEA in a collaborative way and delivering results through others
Vast experience in leading other leaders and competences as well as developing new potentials
Experience in working with different countries and divers partners throughout IKEA
Good understanding the IKEA Concept, the IKEA vision and business idea, IKEA culture & values, the IKEA business model and how we create unique business advantages
Ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of Food in Market Support as an integrated part of the business
Ability to analyse and integrate information and use sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions to achieve long-term business objectives
Radical collaboration skills, building sustainable relationships and engaging competencies across IKEA
Demonstrate bold and courageous leadership and be guided by the IKEA values and dare to test and try while building resilience for both business and people
Ability to move business and lead people in a way, act with flexibility and speed yet make room for reflection and learning
Strategic leadership with the ability to make complex tasks and processes understood and actionable in a complex, unknown and fast changing environment
Extensive retail knowledge at a Country commercial and operational level with a deep knowledge about the hospitality business
Extensive knowledge in the areas of Food and a broad knowledge of life at home and of the IKEA Concept and IKEA Brand objectives and of the whole value chain of IKEA
Extensive knowledge of the IKEA strategic landscape and “IKEA Way of Working” together
Extensive knowledge of leading, through creating competitive strategic plans and implement them
Extensive experience from leading transformational journeys within global organisations
What we offer:
Work environment free of discrimination and harassment