Business Creator

Are you a foodie at heart and have a good understanding of both local and global flavors?

If the answer is yes! Range Area Food are now looking for three new Food Business Creators to support us in making sure we have delicious and cohesive food offer in our many restaurants, bistros and other customer meeting points globally! These positions will be situated in three different locations. These locations are Milan, Shanghai and King of Prussia, PA.

Your new job

As a Food Business Creator, you’ll play an important part in the team and contribute to a better everyday life for the many by creating delicious and affordable food offer that our customers can trust. With our desirable and sustainable offer, food is an essential part of the IKEA experience and our Swedish heritage. It is a strong reason for customers to visit, stay longer, and return more often. Food is often also a starting point to connect with the IKEA Brand. Food at IKEA shall always be convenient, and customers can enjoy our accessible food offer in different store formats and at every meeting point – always with a focus on families with children.

Your primary focus will be to act as an extended arm of the development teams at IKEA of Sweden for a specific geographical area. Identify and secure a range plan for the assigned geographical area including identifying market gaps and new business opportunities, which are relevant, commercial, compliant, delivering to strategic objectives and business goals. As well as contribute to the IKEA identity, approved by IKEA of Sweden AB product development team. The impact of your work will resonate in homes, hearts and stomachs across the world.

On a typical working day, you will:

• Obtain components and secure market specific and mandatory dishes through selection or adjustments.

• Work in close collaboration with a food engineer to secure compliant products.

• Collaborate with the category business teams on local sourcing initiatives and therefore frequently visit IKEA food suppliers in the region.

• Lead collaboration with retail and consolidate volumes across a region where possible.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Food Business Creator requires you to:

• Have a strong interest in food, ingredients and cultural food preferences
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit, strong business acumen & can-do attitude
• Excellent communication & project leading skills, execution and stakeholder management across IKEA organizations.
• Have a deep knowledge about product & range development and the complete IKEA value chain
• Willingness for frequent travel on short notice.

It’s a plus if you also:

• Worked within the food industry and are in-tune with the trends and different production methods.
• Proven track record in building profitable businesses.

For questions about the role, please contact Hiring Manager (Sandra Johansson: [email protected]). Welcome your application.