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Teamleader Food - Assignment LEAN

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  • Wilrijk, Belgium
  • Food & Restaurant

Job Description

  • Job ID: 357700

  • Date posted: 13/08/2026

    • Who you are

    '- You enjoy creating a great experience for customers with a modern taste of Sweden!
    - You are an experienced leader and you draw energy from coaching and developing a team.
    - You are passionate about inspiring co-workers to achieve common goals.
    - You lead your business with pride and share your passion for the food and services that we serve our customers and co-workers.
    - You are highly motivated to maximize turnover, create advantages and improve the shopping experience of customers. 
    - You have a commercial mindset which enables you to take objective decisions

    As a Teamleader with focus on LEAN, you will:

    - Translate the business plan of the store into a clear action plan for your department and you implement the various actions
    - Support your co-managers in drawing up an annual schedule with the financial targets and you help follow it up
    - Report the monthly and annual results
    - Support the management team in discovering new opportunities and improvements and you follow up the actions
    - Support the various departments in following up and implementing actions to achieve the financial targets
    - Inspire, motivate and engage your team to achieve the targets set together

    Your responsibilities

    As a Food Team Leader, you will work with your team to create a safe, healthy, sustainable food experience for both the customer and the co-worker.

    - You ensure your department is clean, attractive, and inviting. You also ensure our products are always in perfect condition and correctly priced.
    - You contribute and support the implementation of the store business plan and IKEA.
    - You coach and develop your team to ensure routines and safety requirements are followed
    - As a team leader you support your team on the floor and also deal with administrative tasks

    Within the LEAN focus:

    - Own the Lean ways of working agenda: Lead and coordinate the Lean program while engaging and coaching leaders and co-workers
    - Drive business impact: Translate wastes into fact-based business potential, follow up results, and report transparently to management
    - Connect to business: Ensure continuous improvement is linked to the unit's business plan, KPIs, and financial performance
    - Sustain improvements: Integrate Lean into everyday decision-making to embed lasting improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost across all processes

    Our team within IKEA

    We are the ones who meet our customers – in our stores, online, through our catalogue and beyond. We are knowledgeable about the IKEA range, local markets and customer needs. We are constantly searching for new ways to contact our customers in authentic ways and so maximise our sales and profitability. Together with thousands of co-workers around the globe, we make up a diverse team and work together on the continuous worldwide success of the IKEA Concept – a concept that helps millions of customers to create a better daily life!

    Apply now!

    At IKEA, we like to give you the space to take control of your own development and growth. We believe in entrepreneurship and initiative and want to make it easy for you. In the first few weeks/months, you will be offered a 5-step development plan to get you started, with enough personal space to create the learning moments you need.

    We offer this structure and a supportive network of colleagues who will make sure you feel comfortable in this situation and give you time to learn, make mistakes and develop.

    In addition to a competitive remuneration, we offer:

    - a temporary assignment in this role, with a one year contract
    - Eco-vouchers
    - End-of-year bonus, holiday pay and sector premiums
    - An additional allowance if you come by bike
    - Private leasing of an electric bike, we are happy to give you a boost
    - Comprehensive hospitalization insurance
    - A private accidents insurance
    - Pension savings
    - A leave savings plan: choose how you want your late/early hours (before 7h and as of 19h) to be paid out: a supplement on your salary or in holiday hours
    - We also offer extra-legal holidays, seniority holidays and for full-time colleagues 6 extra days off
    - A canteen where you can eat delicious food at very democratic prices
    - IKEA Tack! Loyalty reward, an additional deposit into your retirement savings based on our global results and your loyalty to IKEA
    - ONE IKEA Bonus: an additional bonus based on your shop's results
    - IKEA Benefits at work: a portal offer you great discount for well-known stores and brands
    - IKEA staff discount 15% on all your purchases
    - Team outings & staff parties, because togetherness is very important to us
    - A nice extra in case of legal cohabitation/marriage/birth/retirements to celebrate these beautiful moments

    At IKEA, we believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, where every individual is respected and valued. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and bias-free, with equal opportunities for every candidate. We therefore encourage all candidates to apply, with their diverse backgrounds, identities and experiences. Our sites are always easily accessible by public transport, a deliberate choice to enable our employees and customers to travel sustainably.




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