At IKEA, our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We believe that everything we do comes with the responsibility to create a positive impact on people, society and the planet. We are passionate about home furnishing, creating a positive life at home and sharing our tasty responsibly sourced food with the many people across the world.
We are guided by our cultures & values, creating a great place to work. We stand for equality, diversity and inclusion. We care about people & planet and promote health & wellbeing. We nurture your development and provide career opportunities to unlock your potential.
What you need to know
Working at IKEA has its benefits and rewards:
- 5 weeks’ Paid Annual Leave, Paid Parental Leave, Family & Community Leave and much more
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support
- 15% Co-worker discount
- Low-cost nutritious meals including complimentary drinks in our Co-worker restaurant
- Co-worker uniform provided
- Free Co-worker parking
- Bonus programme (where eligible)
- Benefits Membership (savings and discounts on everyday expenses, entertainment, retail and well-being offers across hundreds of retailers and service providers)
- Co-worker Loyalty programme (extra contribution to your superannuation fund where eligible)
About this work area
As a Food Retail Manager, you will act as the commercial business leader for IKEA Food, driving performance across all food areas while delivering a seamless and inspiring customer experience. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Leading and driving food commercial operations, ensuring strong execution of the commercial strategy, commercial calendar and sales-driving initiatives.
- Implementing IKEA commercial frameworks, standards and cross merchandising strategies in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Delivering a high-quality, seamless and memorable customer experience across all food areas, including the Swedish Restaurant and Swedish Food Market.
- Securing operational excellence, ensuring food safety, compliance and high standards are consistently met.
- Coaching and developing leaders and co-workers, ensuring the team has the right competence and capability to deliver results.
- Using customer insights and feedback to continuously improve the Food business and customer journey.
- Contributing to and executing the unit business plan and IKEA Food business plan, connecting Food to the overall store commercial agenda.
- Driving commercial performance and profitability, ensuring strong top-line sales and healthy gross margins.
- Working cross-functionally to ensure Food is integrated into the total store experience.
As a Food Retail Manager, you are a strong, values-driven leader with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational excellence. You have:
- A passion for food, people and commercial results, with the ability to turn strategy into action.
- Proven leadership experience, with a minimum of 3 years leading teams or leaders in a high-volume, customer-facing environment, ideally within food retail or hospitality.
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing budgets, analysing P&Ls, and optimising sales and margins.
- Excellent planning, organisational, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- The ability to influence, collaborate and build strong cross-functional relationships.
- A customer-first mindset with an understanding of customer behaviour in a retail or food environment.
- The ability to lead through change, inspire teams and deliver results through people.
- A strong alignment with IKEA values, with a passion for diversity, inclusion and creating a positive workplace culture.
We need people like you
At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us!