Country Food Safety Leader

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for a person who loves food and will work on a national level to ensure that our food is safe and compliant for our guests and employees.

• You love food and have a degree (Bachelor or Master) in Food Science, Nutrition, Hotel or Food Service.
• You have a deep theoretical and practical knowledge of food regulations and food compliance rules.
• You have a solid professional experience in quality management (HACCP), food law and ideally in auditing Food Safety.
• You are an experienced leader with a customer and consumer focused mind-set.
• You have a strong ability to prioritize and organize work and the work of others, to make the most efficient use of time.
• You communicate confidently and clearly in English and German and you like approaching other people and you like direct contact with different contact persons.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Being responsible for developing and implementing common risk-based compliance plans for food safety and food safety framework, standards, ways of working, tools and KPI’s on a country level.
• Monitoring and identifying market food safety needs and requirements to develop market specific range safety needs in line with the IKEA range strategy, requirements, and processes.
• Planning, conducting and following-up food safety and compliance performance audits.
• Ensuring quality of the audits, lead the information and escalation process in case of food safety non-compliance as well as reviewing and acting upon them to ensure food safety excellence throughout the years.
• Ensuring clear and effective customer food safety communication.
• Making sure that the equipment and facilities meet the IKEA food safety standards and legal demands.
• Being in close 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).
• Contributing proactively as a member of the IKEA Food team to deliver to the common objectives and goals.
• Transferring knowledge and sharing information to and between the units.
• Working across functions within IKEA and collaborate with other IKEA units.
• Pro-actively monitoring and adapting new local food safety operational needs, demands and regulations
• Being an active player in working on sustainability.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

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!

We change together and grow together with markets and share knowledge and leadership to ensure a food experience for customers and co-workers. An experience that is safe, healthy, sustainable, delicious, affordable, convenient, human, modern and joyful.

GOOD TO KNOW

Please submit your application online, including your CV, letter of motivation and all other relevant documents. Unfortunately, paper applications cannot be considered.
After an initial selection, successful applicants will be invited for a telephone or video interview. Based on this, a second selection will be made after which we will invite the selected applicants to a personal interview with the manager and possibly other parties involved.
We are constantly reviewing the applications and will close the position as soon as we have found the right candidate. So please apply as soon as possible.
Successful applicants are required to submit their extract from their criminal record before receiving the contract.