Job ID: 253014

Date posted: 12. 08. 2024

Who you are

You are genuinely interested in sales and are motivated by fulfilling customer needs. You have experience of serving customers in a vibrant retail environment around 5years to show commercial insight. You enjoy and have experience in leading and developing a team. You are Inspired by IKEA culture & values. You have Passion for food and peoples life at home. You have knowledge of IKEA Concept, Brand, Culture & Values. You understand consumer and Market research. You understand IKEA Food solutions, compliance standards and Food safety standards. You are capable to identify new business. You have ability to handle multiple topics and changing priorities/deadlines. You have proven ability to maintain effective work and leadership behavior in the face of setbacks or pressure.

A day in your life with us

• Contributes to the implementation of global and national compliance standards to secure a safe environment for customers and co-workers.
• Ensure that retail foundations and sales steering tools, food safety and Swedishness are in place to optimise commerciality
• Lead and implement the commercial strategy and commercial calendar in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Drive the cross merchandising strategy to maximise sales by liaising effectively with the relevant stakeholders
• Lead and manage the food supply chain for efficient ordering, production and inventory levels to maximise profitability
• Develop and improve by seeking and acting upon customer feedback
• Ensure that the Bistro & Swedish Food Market is in shape as new, that common store planning is followed and vitality packages are implemented
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of the unit business plan and the IKEA Retail Food business plan and other action plans
• Responsible for securing an excellent customer experience by ensuring that the team has the correct knowledge about the IKEA range (Food and product) and the IKEA services and can share this with customers in a good way
• Identify, recruit, introduce, and develop the many talents and to secure succession planning
• Secure a lean, diverse and high performing team through building IKEA Food and IKEA competence and leadership and empowering co-workers to act on their own initiative
• Responsible for the implementation of the global and national people and sustainability strategies

About this work area

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!

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