Operations Manager | Food

As Operations Manager you will be key in our journey by securing the best IKEA Food offer ever and fulfilling our vision and purpose of food in IKEA. You will be responsible for the transformation of the operations in the Food organization and ensuring that our business strategies are customer centric and effectively executed with innovation and drive in the forefront to deliver to growth.

You are responsible for driving and ensuring that our overall agenda end to end is being implemented. You do this together with many colleagues including the highly competent teams you have managerial responsibility for (Business Navigation Range administration Transformation office). You combine strategic thinking with operational power and are passionate about growth and delivering results for people as well as planet. Your leadership is characterized by both strategic elevation and an operational focus where you excel at structuring prioritizing getting people onboard setting challenging goals and ensuring they are met. You are proactive solution as well as relationoriented. The essence of your leadership is based on our values with strong commitment that collaboration is the way forward which is also something you manage to get through the whole value chain from supplier to customer. This isnt just about managing its about transforming.

What you do

• Take responsibility for development of our strategic plans as well as secure implementation throughout

• Analyze develop/improve Food business processes ensure the efficient delivery of products and services in strong collaborations with Capability areas

• Take the lead in our transformation agenda together with transformation leaders including leading integration of technology solutions to improve operational efficiency (ERP CRM and other systems). 

• Ensure that necessary structures ways of working insights and competences are present as well as securing financial and operational preconditions to have people in the right place and at the right time in close collaboration with the People & Culture Leader and Food Manager 

• Take the lead in securing all our common goals People and Planet oriented 

• Optimize resource allocation and manage budgets effectively  

Qualifications :

What you bring

• Humility to understand and lead towards the IKEA vision

• Very strong valuesbased leadership

• Demonstrated longterm experience in high complexity roles from business leadership 

• High business acumen and deep understanding of how an organization functions endtoend 

• Strong financial competence 

• Ability to shift between working on strategic and tactical levels with the mindset of getting things done 

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills as it is of high importance to be able to communicate effectively and bring others on board as well as having excellent collaboration skills 

• Excellence in structuring prioritizing and following up 

• Sharpness flexibility and a pragmatic approach 

• Courage and willingness to challenge decisions and plans including your own 

• Excellent analytical skills 

• Curiosity and a learning mindset to keep up with trends and shifts both internally and externally 

• Strong customercentric approach

You will be part of the Inter IKEA Group Food Steering/management group and report to the Food Manager who has an assignment just as you will have leading IKEA Food from an IKEA endtoend perspective.

Additional Information :

lmhult the heart of IKEA 

This is apart from your working place where our culture and values were shaped and are still developing. It is a melting pot of many different nationalities and cultures. Besides the IKEA Museum IKEA Hotel the IKEA store and many other places to learn and meet there is Aktivitetshuset a meeting place and spare time facility with many possibilities for IKEA coworkers and their families. 

Does this sound like your next challenge 

We are curious to get to know you so send us your application in English no later than 1st of June. Please note that we will review applications as they come through so send in your application today! 

If you have any questions about the assignment please contact the recruiter Bence Denes <>

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime