Our customers have been served food in IKEA stores since 1959. In 2017 we launched Category Area Food, as part of the pursuit of a world class food supply chain. We are currently putting in place the foundation, in terms of people and ways of working. Through consolidation of today’s supplier base of more than 1.100 suppliers of food to our stores, we secure an optimal sourcing, with a strong governance to secure good quality food and mitigate risks, including food fraud.

Our wished position, is to setup a passionate and professional team, delivering high performance and robust business through a supplier base focused on safety, availability, cost, quality and sustainability. We strive to be relevant, attractive and trustworthy to become a preferred business partner.

Do you want to be part of developing the Food Safety and Quality agenda for Animal Based Category and lead its execution in a global environment? If yes, this might be the perfect challenge for you!

You will join Category Management Team and report to the Category Manager. As part of the  Category Area - Food Quality matrix you will contribute by driving category’s food safety and quality agenda, with a focus to secure execution in line with your business plan.

Another important area of responsibility is to develop and maintain food safety and quality competence within category, with an aim to deliver products fulfilling customer expectations in terms of Food Safety as well in all aspects of Democratic Design.

Main Food Safety & Quality responsibilities included in your assignment are:

• Develop and execute food safety and quality agenda for the category in cooperation with BDMs, Category Manager and Engineering and Quality Manager
• Develop and implement Food Safety and Quality competences in the category and suppliers to secure consistency in quality and Food Safety development
• Ensure that quality tools (for example Process & Design FMEA, Six Sigma etc.) are used among the business development teams and suppliers
• Support Production and Product engineers in local and global engineering/improvement/quality and Food Safety  projects
• Support in analysing customer feedback, and development of project/actions to improve customer satisfaction
• Support product development projects (News/Moves/Improves) in the food safety, compliance and quality dimension
• Support business development team to implement quality assurance at suppliers and create pre-conditions for the suppliers to take full responsibility for their Quality  and compliance performance
• Secure Category specific knowledge in introduction of new engineers
• At any time, act as an ambassador of IKEA values and Role Model for Fact-based Business leadership

We offer a challenging role where you will work on a global area and get the possibility to lead the food safety and quality agenda for the category.

As a Food Safety and Quality Leader you need to have:

• Previous experience in a leadership role (Food Safety / Quality  or Quality Assurance Manager/Leader) within a Food Retailing / Manufacturing company with global footprint.
• Previous experience in working with supplier food safety certification, preferably  GFSI recognised Certification schemes
• Proven record of consistently delivering results in leading and developing both business and people
• Proven record of consistently delivering results through continuous improvement initiative both from product / manufacturing process perspective
• Good knowledge of Six sigma methodology and tools (DMAIC, Root cause, value stream mapping, risk analysis)
• Good knowledge of Quality assurance set up including production processes, process control, cost calculation and materials
• Good knowledge of project management tools
• Good remote leadership skills

The Food Safety & Quality Leader for Meat, Seafood & Dairy will be located in Älmhult (Sweden) or Durtmund (Germany) and will report to the Category Manager.

This role will require significant travelling

Sounds interesting? Submit your application in English as soon as possible via this ad, however not later than March 1st , 2020

If you have questions about the recruitment process you can reach out to People & Culture Recruiter Jakob Bergström:  +46 70-147 48 90. For more information about the role, please contact recruiting manager Therese Barnekow Mohn: +46 76-619 07 33.

IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduce 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.