Food Range & Supply Leader, IKEA

IKEA

Location:
Japan, Funabashi-shi

Category:
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Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

To ensure a food range that caters for a food experience that is locally relevant, people and planet positive, healthy, delicious, affordable, with a Swedish touch and to optimize food supply to enable for extraordinary growth. Responsibilities include managing local menu development, contributing to food range and supply activities, and ensuring compliance with national and IKEA processes.

Job Responsibility:

Monitor and identify market food range needs and requirements in order to develop a healthy and nutritious market specific range offering in line with IKEA range strategy, requirements and processes
Secure range requirements, including ingredient and nutrition information, and ensure food product information
Contribute insights and ideas to the market business plan as an integrated commercial partner
Ensure range management, drive range dimensioning and ensure the range to selling process
Implement common food range, supply & logistics framework, standards, WoW (way of working), tools and KPI’s adapting to local legislation and laws
Monitor food range and supply performance to the units in order to manage and escalate deviation
Contribute with input, feedback and recommendations on food market requirements and opportunities related to food range and supply
Engage with Procurement to secure compliant suppliers and secure purchase price for defined range
Contribute with knowledge transfer and information sharing to and between the units
Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within commercial and beyond to secure integration, common focus and to maximize impact (for example Digital, CFF (Customer Fulfilment), Communications, Sustainability, BNOF (Business Navigation Operations & Finance), People & Culture)
Contribute to the integrated multichannel executions/output of the function in order to achieve the business goals
Be an active player in driving an open and sharing climate, be a role model of the IKEA values and contribute to the transformation of IKEA
Be an active player in working on sustainability within food (sourcing of local ingredients, circularity in production, usage of sustainable materials and services)
Lead the development of our local food range to create a delicious and meaningful food experience for our customers
Plan and organize tasting sessions, coordinate product photo shoots, and manage the preparation and planning needed to ensure a smooth supply process
Range & Supply tasks are varied and shared among the team members

Requirements:

Experience of working with food menu development
Experience in planning, driving output and measuring performance (business)
Extensive knowledge about the food trends and culture in the local market
Business conversational level or higher in English (e.g., able to handle emails and participate in meetings with global stakeholders)
Business-level Japanese (able to collaborate with store teams and external vendors effectively)

Nice to have:

Experience in cooking in large-scale food environments such as hotels, institutional kitchens, or catering services
Strong passion for food
Excellent communication skills
A team player who can bring people together and lead the way forward

What we offer:

Social insurance: welfare pension, health insurance, and unemployment insurance
Transportation expense (up to 1,530 yen/day)
Parking spaces available for car commutation
Paid vacation (available after 6 months of employment, up to 20 days maximum)
Congratulatory or condolence leave
Maternity leave
Nursing care leave
Childcare leave
Paternity leave
Childcare leave for partners
Personal injury leave
Volunteer leave
Family care leave
Uniform rental (if required)
Employee discount system
Employee cafeteria
Christmas gift
Great value life insurance, long-term medical care insurance plans (opt-in)
Retirement allowance system (corporate defined contribution pension plan: 3 years or more of service)
Extensive learning opportunities including Rosetta Stone (language learning) and Linkedin learning subscriptions
Employee smoking area

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
July 16, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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