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IKEA Food Manager

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  • Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Comida & Restaurante
  • Full Time

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  • ID da oferta: 330468

  • Data de publicação: 19/02/2026

    • Who you are

    As a person you are passionate about people, business, IKEA’s purpose and continuously driving better performance. You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people as well as motivated by leading and developing people.
    You should have 5-8 years of experience of leading business around Food with a proven record of successful business development and performance over time and consistently meeting agreed budgets and goals, working on business plans over a few years. This includes setting and implementing action plans and providing clear direction and following up goals. You should have proven record of developing organisations, spotting, developing and exporting talents with experience from leading Business and People in transformation processes, in person as well as remotely and you strong documented leadership skills guided by IKEA Values. You should have a proven track record of interdependent leadership- leading business agendas across organizations IKEA in a collaborative way and delivering results through others and a vast experience in leading other leaders and competences as well as developing new potentials with experience in working with different countries and divers partners throughout IKEA. You should have a good understanding the IKEA Concept, the IKEA vision and business idea, IKEA culture & values, the IKEA business model and how we create unique business advantages.
    You should have an ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of Food in Market Support as an integrated part of the business, and you should have an ability to analyse and integrate information and use sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions to achieve long-term business objectives. You should have radical collaboration skills, building sustainable relationships and engaging competencies across IKEA. You should demonstrate bold and courageous leadership and be guided by the IKEA values and dare to test and try while building resilience for both business and people. You should have an ability to move business and lead people in a way, act with flexibility and speed yet make room for reflection and learning. You should have a strategic leadership with the ability to make complex tasks and processes understood and actionable in a complex, unknown and fast changing environment.
    You should have an extensive retail knowledge at a Country commercial and operational level with a deep knowledge about the hospitality business, extensive knowledge in the areas of Food and a broad knowledge of life at home and of the IKEA Concept and IKEA Brand objectives and of the whole value chain of IKEA. You should have an extensive knowledge of the IKEA strategic landscape and “IKEA Way of Working” together.
    You should have an extensive knowledge of leading, through creating competitive strategic plans and implement them and an extensive experience from leading transformational journeys within global organisations.

    Your responsibilities

    • Contribute to the total commercial offer.
    • Contribute to the work of the global commercial agenda by developing long term plans for Food across all customer meeting points for business performance and great customer experience.
    • Act as member of the Market Support management team
    • Utilise the process for development and innovation to create and deploy new solutions for Food and ensure the commercial execution and operational excellence of IKEA Food in an omnichannel reality on behalf of Ingka Group.
    • Ensure strong support and contribution to the IKEA Food Health and Sustainability strategy.
    • Secure a successful, consistent and relevant collaboration across IKEA in general, and Core Business Franchise and HFB Food (IKEA of Sweden) specifically, to ensure common business goals are met and key stakeholders have needed information.
    • Responsible to coach, develop and facilitate a high performing and learning Food matrix community. Enable all team members to create communities for sharing best practices with and across the markets. Give input to the talent pipeline, contribute to the development of potentials and ensure a calibrated view on potential and succession needs and opportunities within the function.
    • Secure the development of market specific range for the markets in order to drive traffic and generate profitable growth for IKEA
    • Responsible for the development of the co-worker restaurants in the markets, contributing to happy and satisfied co-workers
    • Lead, recruit for succession, coach and develop a competent, high performing and learning Food organisation/team to ensure successfully achieving set goals.
    • Contribute to one IKEA Business plan and lead the business plan process within the dimension of the IKEA Food and set the preconditions for the implementation in all markets and channels.
    • Responsible for that the IKEA Food organisation are compliant with internal IKEA demands and external legal demands.
    • Manage and lead the achievement of our key goals/retail score card through monitoring the performance, identify gaps, initiate actions and create prerequisites for improvement.
    • Create an open and sharing climate and actively foster an empowered interdependent leadership culture which nurtures collaboration and co-creation across all functions and units, within and outside Market Support and Ingka, to secure integration, common focus and maximize impact.

    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!

    More Information
    At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come
    join our team and be yourself with us!
    We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic
    protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.








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