Here it is. Your chance to join Business Area (BA) Food at an exciting time.
IKEA is not just home furnishing, we are one of the world’s most spread Restaurant chain as well.

Our Food business is a strong contributor to the IKEA brand and business growth and we have the ambition to drive positive change in the food industry.
We are proud to have a lot of meeting points as restaurants, bistros and Swedish food market in 60 countries, from Sweden to Japan to Chile

Our Food business reflect the IKEA Swedish heritage through the IKEA Food range in all our food solutions and it plays a big part in strengthening the Swedish profile of IKEA.

The journey ahead in Food is very exciting. We are not just building a FOOD hub in Älmhult. Over the next years, we will continue to strengthen the core of what we do - developing food that is good for people and the planet.  We dare to challenge ourselves, living our values, every day and we embrace the future and face the opportunities to enable success.

At Business Area Food (BA Food) we are passionate food lovers that develop and provide delicious, desirable, healthy and sustainable food for the many people around the world. Food that is accessible and affordable for the many people. No doubt food matters to people and the planet and to the IKEA business

Now we want to strengthen our Food team with someone who shares our passion for food and our values.

Do you want to be part of our exiting journey?

If yes, this might be the perfect challenge for you!

Now we are looking for you - an experienced Business Navigation Manager, who are challenged to be the contributor to proactively taking part to steer the Food business towards the future and ensuring improvement needs of digital tools and business solutions for IKEA Food together with other stakeholders at IKEA

Together with your colleagues in the management team, you lead the IKEA Food business towards growth and goal achievement, identify business potentials and enable efficiency in ways of working.

You lead and develop the Business Navigation team. You have a holistic and curious approach to business, are a good communicator who enjoys and sees the value of simplifying and believe in the power of nothing is impossible.  

It’s a challenging and rewarding job, where you will;

Lead, develop and follow up financial and business performance steering towards a balanced and profitable totality with our many IKEA customers in focus. Have a leading role in transforming and enabling the integration of IKEA Food into  IKEA of Sweden with relevant solutions, processes, and digital tools.

Steering the business through the strategic landscape, take lead in fact-based decision-making, process development and support with tools, insights, and recommendations.

Lead project portfolio management in BA Food to ensure the right priorities in relation to Business Plan ambitions and a balanced portfolio and to explore the future by forecasting, building scenarios and contingency plans. Responsible within the unit for financial planning (budgeting and forecasting), adherence to power of authority (POA) structure and adherence and compliance to accounting policies and rules.

To shine and succeed in this role you need to have a the ability and passion to work in a fast changing environment, being pro-active and having the capability to navigate in the unknown to see the possibilities in what will make us the outstanding Food business in the future

You have strong business knowledge and cross-functional understanding of IKEA operations and a proven track record in meeting/exceeding results in a business leadership role. You can translate long-term priorities into clearly defined business objectives and KPIs. Your strong drive to make things happen and reach results combined with good analytical skills and fact-based business leadership capabilities support making the right decisions and their implementations. You are a strong communicator making it easy for the many to understand and translate numbers and graphs to their reality.

You are action-oriented and result driven, you enjoy working in a fast-paced and future-oriented, continuously developing organization, having a strong ability to adapt to change. You are great in building partnerships based on trust, collaboration and support across functions and it´s clear that you live the IKEA values and nurture a strong and living IKEA culture. 

The ability to express yourself in English is a prerequisite.

We look forward to getting to know you when you feel you have what it takes.

Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role, you do that under message to Hiring Manager.
The last day to send your application is the 21st of April 2022. If you know you will apply, please send in the application a.s.a.p. to help speed up the process, it would be great if we can start meeting you as soon as possible.

Please note the position will be based in Malmö until September 2023 when we move to Älmhult

Curious to know more? Let´s connect!

If you have any questions regarding this the role or recruitment process, please contact BA Manager Helene von Reis at helene.vonreis1@inter.ikea.com or Recruiter Marie Sandman on +46 768545309