Food range & supply leader - ikea korea service office

Who you are

The purpose of the job is to ensure a food range that caters for a food experience that is locally relevant, people and planet positive, healthy, delicious, affordable, with a Swedish touch and to optimize food supply to enable for extraordinary growth. In addition, it strengthens food range and supply competence and lead activities to address key gaps of food range and supply performance, effectiveness and efficiency.

Key previous experiences and skills

• Previous experience in similar high volume, multi-unit retail or minimum 3-5 years' experience in food service chain. Proven track records.
• Good analytical skills and cost consciousness
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate in English
• Has business overview, and tactical thinking.
• Ability to evaluate ideas from a commercial viewpoint.
• Good communicative skills and high energy in motivating, inspiring and developing people.
• Integrity and the ability to establish effective working relationships across the country and internationally.

To add for Internal
• Minimum 2 years in the existing role
• Proven ability to multitask and handle changing priorities /deadlines.

For External
• Have culinary experience working in Casual Dining segments, hotel or F&B industry with proven leadership abilities and commercial insight in ensuring effective cost

Preferred
• Experience in in contract management, negotiations, or sourcing environment
• Minimum 3 years of experience in leading and influencing co-workers and teams

Knowledge and capabilities
• A genuine interest, curiosity and passion for IKEA Food
• Dynamic, action-oriented team player that is self-motivated and confident in making independent decisions.
• Cooperates with external service providers
• Knowledge of local market and competition in order to support innovative methods of meeting and/or exceeding

A day in your life with us

• 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)

Together as a team

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!

Apply now!

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