Food Commercial Manager, IKEA Baneasa

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About you:

- Minimum 3 years of experience in leading a multi-faceted high-volume business
- Ability to handle multiple topics and changing priorities/deadlines
- Self-reliant and self-motivated with a proven ability to work as part of a team as well as independently
- Ability to work creatively within strong frameworks
- Ability to deliver strong business results through people
- Proven ability to maintain effective work and leadership behavior in the face of setbacks or pressure
- Experience in a customer facing environment
- Coaching and leadership skills
- Experience in planning, driving output and measuring performance (business)
- Capable of communicating in English, both in writing and verbally

About the job: 

Responsible for commercial execution in Food areas ensure IKEA Retail Food in commercial calendar, develop commercial initiatives and food competence in the store, acting as a commercial business partner within the IKEA business in the store.

About the assignment (2 years temporary contract):

- Contribute to the implementation of global and national compliance standards to secure a safe environment for customers and co-workers
- Ensure the commercial agenda by securing that retail foundations and sales steering tools, food safety and Swedishness are in place
- Lead and implement the commercial strategy and commercial calendar in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
- Drive the cross merchandising & sampling strategy to maximize sales by liaising effectively with relevant stakeholders
- Lead the implementation of the store IKEA Retail Food communication strategy
- Develop and improve by acting upon customer feedback
- Ensure that the customer restaurant, bistro & SFM is in shape as new, common store planning solutions and vitality packages are implemented
- Sales steering in relations to deep business analysis related to sales locations, family offers, sampling actions etc
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of the unit business plan and the IKEA Retail Food business plan and other action plans together with Operational Manager
- Responsible for securing an excellent customer experience by ensuring that the team has the correct knowledge about the IKEA range (Food and product) and the IKEA services and can share this with customers in a good way
- Identify, recruit, introduce, and develop the many talents and secure succession planning
- Secure a lean, diverse and high performing team through building IKEA Food and IKEA competence and leadership and empowering co-workers to act on their own initiative
- Contributes in the implementation of the global and national strategies (affordability, accessibility, people & planet)
- Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within Food to secure ”ONE IKEA FOOD” integration and common goal approach among all food areas
- Leading local competitor monitoring process and actively using collected information for improving the business commercial strategy and steer the sales towards higher profitability

IKEA South East Europe is an exciting and empowering region with great growth agenda in all countries – Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome applications of people of all cultures, backgrounds and experiences because we believe that diversity in IKEA makes us stronger.