Who you are
• Extensive knowledge about the food trends and culture in the local market.
• Good knowledge of food business, food range and supply as well as IKEA retail operations.
• Broad knowledge of IKEA food product development process, designing and integrating food offers in the local range to meet consumer needs.
• Broad knowledge of IKEA concept, brand objectives, values and vision.
• Broad knowledge of IKEA tools, processes and cycles.
• Broad knowledge of Group strategies, priorities and business planning process.
• Broad knowledge of supply sourcing and production management.
• Good knowledge of project and change management methods and tools as well as stakeholder management.
• Broad knowledge of operational plans and goals as well as follow up on KPIs.
• Broad knowledge of how consumer acts, feels and behaves in a retail environment to apply the insights in the food experience design in all touch points.
• Broad knowledge about the local market environment, expectations from customers today and tomorrow to secure that commercial and service offers meet customer demands and needs.
Your responsibilities
• Monitor and identify market food range needs and requirements in order to develop a healthy
and nutritious market specific range offering in line with IKEA range strategy, requirements and
processes
• Secure range requirements, including ingredient and nutrition information, and ensure food product information
• Lead the Food Range & Supply team through planning, coaching and coordinating range & supply activities in order to deliver to the common objectives and goals
• Contribute insights and ideas to the market business plan as an integrated commercial partner
• Ensure range management, drive range dimensioning and ensure the range to selling process
• Implement common food range, supply & logistics framework, standards, WoW (way of working), tools and KPI’s adapting to local legislation and laws
• Monitor food range and supply performance to the units in order to manage and escalate deviation
• Contribute with input, feedback and recommendations on food market requirements and opportunities related to food range and supply
• Engage with Procurement to secure compliant suppliers and secure purchase price for defined range
• Contribute with knowledge transfer and information sharing to and between, the units
• Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within commercial and beyond to secure integration, common focus and to maximize impact
• Contribute to the integrated multichannel executions/output of the function in order to achieve the business goals
• Be an active player in driving an open and sharing climate, be a role model of the IKEA values and contribute to the transformation of IKEA
• Be an active player in working on sustainability within food (sourcing of local ingredients, circularity in production, usage of sustainable materials and services)