WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE
【Required Qualifications】
・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)
【Preferred Qualifications】
・Experience in cooking in large-scale food environments such as hotels, institutional kitchens, or catering services.
【What We're Looking For】
・Someone with a strong passion for food
・Excellent communication skills
・A team player who can bring people together and lead the way forward
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY
【Purpose of this Job】
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.
To strengthen food range and supply competence and lead activities to address key gaps of food range and supply performance, effectiveness and efficiency.
【Your responsibilities】- 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
- The main task is local menu development, but the role also involves inventory coordination and follow-up related to domestic supply. Range & Supply tasks are varied and shared among the team members.
Our menu development follows an annual planning cycle.
Planning for the menus to be launched next year typically begins about nine months in advance.
Approximately four months before the menu launch, we finalize recipes and conduct product photo shoots.
This structured, long-term schedule ensures a smooth and timely rollout of new menus.
【What makes this role rewarding】
You'll feel the joy of seeing the range you helped develop appear in our stores. Through food, you'll make a real impact on our sales and customer satisfaction — a truly rewarding role
ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
【Where you work】
IKEA Japan Service Office
2-3-30 Hama-cho
Funabashi-shi
Train
JR Keiyo/Musashino Line「Minami Funabashi Station」5mins walk
Keisei Electric Railway 「Funabashi Keibajyo Station」15mins walk
Car
Car/Motorcycle Commutation is available
【Employment Status】
- Fulltime regular employee 40 hours per week contract
- Probation period: 6 months
- Start date is the first day of every month (consult with us about your start date)
- Retirement age: 65 years old
- Social insurance: welfare pension, health insurance, and unemployment insurance
- Transportation expense (up to 1,530 yen/day)
- Paid vacation (available after 6 months of employment, up to 20 days maximum)
In addition, we also provide congratulatory or condolence leave, maternity leave, nursing care leave, childcare leave, paternity leave, childcare leave for partners, personal injury leave, nursing leave, volunteer leave, family care leave
No matter what life stage you are at, we have the leave to support you
- Uniform rental (if required)
- Employee discount system
- Employee cafeteria
- Christmas gift
- Great value life insurance, longterm medical care insurance plans (optin)
- Retirement allowance system (corporate defined contribution pension plan: 3 years or more of service)
- Employee smoking area
- Extensive learning opportunities including Rosetta Stone (language learning) and Linkedin learning subscriptions
At IKEA we want you to take your career in the direction of your passions. When we recruit for an opening, the position is available to apply to by all IKEA employees. This includes domestic and international opportunities.
Where will your career take you? To the IKEA stores? A different country? Up and up in your current department? It is up to you
【Working at IKEA】
Everyone has a home at IKEA. Our way of working values work, family, and individuality.
To get a better image of our culture, watch the following 9 interviews with some of our coworkers.
"At IKEA, we believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and be given equal opportunities"
Diversity is a key to success; diversity comes in all shapes and sizes. Being ourselves, and contributing with our uniqueness, makes us all grow.
At Ingka Group, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our co-workers, for our customers and our business.
We strive to have a diverse and inclusive work environment where co-workers feel valued for their uniqueness, recognized for their diverse talents, and where they can be themselves.
IKEA Japan would like to explore together. If you have a passion for this position, please don't hesitate to applyLet's get closer to our vision of "creating a better everyday life for the many people" together
If you are in need of support to apply, or to participate in an interview due to a disability, please contact us anytime at the following email:
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT
【How to apply】
Think this might be the job for you? Please apply today using the register button on this page
Attach a resume and cover letter, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
【Hiring Process Steps】
After submitting your application, we will review your documents.
Candidates who pass the document screening will be invited for an interview.
The company information session is an opportunity to learn more about IKEA and working at IKEA.
We encourage you to attend.
*Reservations cannot be made here. Please check the latest session schedule at IKEA Japan website.
*Furthermore, it is possible a position's recruitment may close early if the contract has been filled. We advise that you submit an application as soon as you can.
*Please note that as part of the selection process, we may ask for references from those who have experienced working with you. The reference will be in the form of a questionnaire.
We welcome applications from individuals who are willing to take on challenges with a positive attitude and without fear of failure.
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