Who you are

As our new Kitchen Production Team Leader, we imagine that you are passionate about the food experience at IKEA and that you are motivated by leading and developing people. You work every day to deliver the best food experience for our guests in the restaurant and are aware of your contribution and responsibility to work towards IKEA's common goals and ambitions.

We imagine that you:
• Have several years of experience as a leader and therefore know how to lead by example and understand the importance of visible leadership.
• Have the ability to stay calm, maintain an overview, and lead with a helicopter perspective, ensuring that we always stay on course towards our goals, even in challenging situations.
• Have experience in the restaurant/kitchen industry.
• Can set clear expectations and follow up on your goals and strategies.
• Have a coaching approach that enables you to provide concrete, fair, and timely feedback, which you use to develop your employees.
• Are sales-driven and service-minded with experience in customer service.
• Your passion for food makes you proud of the service and products you deliver.
• Are flexible and know how to effectively execute action plans - you truly make things happen.
• Are inspired by IKEA's leadership style, and it is important to you to lead by example.

A day in your life with us

You will be responsible for the daily operations and production in IKEA's restaurant. Here, you will have a big opportunity to use your leadership skills and take responsibility for the financial aspects of running a healthy business.

You will work with:
• Visible leadership, where you lead with a proactive and service-oriented approach to daily operations.
• Ensuring that all policies, procedures, and standards are adhered to, including self-monitoring and hygiene, which meet IKEA's high standards.
• Ensuring the development of your employees' competencies.
• Conducting care, development, salary, and performance reviews.
• Hiring new employees.
• Handling operational challenges, clearing, optimizing work processes, daily follow-up with employees, and various administrative tasks.
• Keeping the customer in focus and taking initiative to optimize sales and inspire our customers.
• Ensuring that your area of responsibility is commercial, clean, tidy, attractive, and inviting. You also ensure that our products are always in perfect condition and correctly priced.
• Creating passion around the food we serve and sell, actively learning about it, and sharing your knowledge with customers and colleagues.
• Contributing to and supporting the implementation of the store's business plan and IKEA Food action plan.
• Promoting a 'safety first' culture and coaching others to ensure that routines and requirements are known and followed in daily work.
• Ensuring correct inventory and participating in monthly status reports.
• Following up on equipment and procurement.

Together as a team

We offer an exciting and varied job as a Kitchen Production Team Leader in a growth-oriented company, where you are close to the decision-making process and can influence your own development as well as your employees. You will be responsible for 10-15 employees and will be part of a leadership team in IKEA FOOD consisting of a total of 6 leaders, including yourself.

You will be part of IKEA Taastrup, where there is an opportunity to collaborate across our various departments with many different people - all with their own backgrounds and needs. IKEA is a renowned furniture retailer, and many of our customers also come to IKEA for a food experience. We aim to create a break for customers when they need to make a major purchasing decision and to recharge their energy levels for the rest of their shopping journey. It is our task to ensure a fantastic food experience for our customers. An experience that is safe, healthy, sustainable, delicious, convenient, human, and joyful.

Questions and support? Let's connect!

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Food Manager: Karolina Norman at karolina.norman@ingka.ikea.com.
If you have any questions about the recruitment process, you can contact Senior Recruiter, Maja Sørensen, at maja.sorensen@ingka.ikea.com.
Please note that we do not accept applications via email, but only through our recruitment system.

Further informations

• The position is 37 hours per week on an individual contract, where overtime is included in the salary.
• Salary based on qualifications and within IKEA's salary policy.
• Working hours are between 8:00 AM and 9:00 PM, Monday to Sunday. You should expect 1-2 closing shifts per week and weekend work every third weekend. You are expected to assist with inventory on the last day of each month until 11:00 PM
• You will be part of a shift schedule with both staffing and responsibility hours, and you will also plan your own working hours according to the business needs.
• We offer various employee benefits, including a pension scheme, health insurance, massage scheme, canteen arrangement, staff discount, discount schemes with partners, annual gift, and bonus scheme, etc.
• The application deadline is January 2, 2025.

We reserve the right to close the job posting once we have received enough qualified candidates.
We aim for a start date of February 1, 2025, or by agreement. Note: There may be longer response times and interview processes due to the December holidays.