Lead the Way in Food Safety Excellence!

at  IKEA

Job ID: 241815
Date posted: 04/06/2024
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!
In the role as Country Food Safety Leader, you are responsible for leading food compliance and food safety operational excellence and ensuring safe and compliant food for customers and co-workers. You are also responsible for strengthening food compliance and food safety competence and leading activities addressing key gaps of food compliance and food safety. In this role you will report to, and have a close collaboration with the Country Food Manager. The work place will be at IKEA Service Office, located at Billingstad. Starting Date preferably 01.09.24.

WHO ARE YOU?

You are passionate about people, business, food and have an interest in home furnishing. In addition to that, you are curious about exploring new and innovative opportunities as well as being motivated by creating a high-quality, affordable and unique culinary experience for the IKEA customers in Norway.
For this role we believe you have several years of experience in working with food safety, food quality, food operations, food standards, procedures and food compliance as well as delivering results within these areas. On top of this, you need in depth knowledge regarding HACCP, food safety standards and procedures. If you have experience from the areas above within the retail sector, it’s a plus.
You have broad knowledge of how consumer acts, feels and behaves (including online customers) in a omni channelretail environment to apply the insights in the shopping experience design in all touchpoints as well as of the local market environment and food safety expectations from customers today and tomorrow. On top of this, your knowledge of local food legislations and operational compliance standards and documentation is broad. You have good knowledge of auditing and investigation procedures, food quality assurance and food quality control. Finally, you possess good project, change and stakeholder management skills and know how to apply these in an extremely ambiguous environment requiring cross functional collaboration.
We’d love to have you join our team. Please submit your application and we’re looking forward to receiving it. If you have any questions about the position, please contact Petra Jopen, Country Food Manager, petra.jopen@ingka.ikea.com

• Be responsible for developing and implementing common risk-based compliance plans for food safety and food safety framework, standards, WoW (ways of working), tools and KPI’s
• Monitor and identify market food safety needs and requirements in order to develop market specific range safety needs in line with IKEA range strategy, requirements and processes
• Plan conduct and follow-up food safety and compliance performance audits
• Ensure quality of the audits, lead the information and escalation process in case of food safety non-compliance as well as review and act upon them to ensure food safety excellence throughout the year
• Ensure clear and effective customer food safety communication
• Ensure that equipment and facilities meet the IKEA food safety standards and legal demands
• Contact with external companies working with food safety compliance verification activities (e.g. external food safety audit, microbiological or other food safety related analyses or tests)