Ikea Food Team Lead

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada IKEA Full time

Who you are
- You are sales driven and service minded with experience of serving customers. Your passion for food makes you take pride in the food services you are providing.
- You have an obvious passion for IKEA’s food offering, products and design, as well as our sustainability commitment.
- You have more than 3 years of leadership experience in a high-volume food service environment.
- You are flexible and know how to execute action plans in a good way, you truly make things happen.
- You have amazing ability to juggle multiple competing priorities while keeping a smile on your face.
- The IKEA Leadership approach inspires you and to lead by example is important to you.

**Your responsibilities**
- Contribute and support the implementation of the store business plan and IKEA food action plan.
- Promote a safety-first culture, as well as coach fellow coworkers in ensuring routines and requirements are known and followed in all daily work.
- Ensure that the kitchen is always in optimal state, equipment is well maintained, and the products are in perfect condition and correctly priced.
- Effectively follow proper processes and procedures in terms of food preparation, safety and waste reduction.
- Actively learn about the food we serve and sell and share your knowledge with customers and team members creating an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
- Keep customers in focus making sure that they have a consistently excellent shopping experience by empowering, challenging and coaching fellow co-workers to see through customers’ eyes.

**Our team within ikea**

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

JUST SO YOU KNOW

In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as: IKEA Food Team Leader

NOTE: This role does not offer mobility support.

Address: 382 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1S8
- Full Time availability requirements: minimum 35+ hours per week
- Weekends required (Saturday & Sunday)
- You are sales driven and service minded with experience of serving customers. Your passion for food makes you take pride in the food services you are providing.
- You have an obvious passion for IKEA’s food offering, products and design, as well as our sustainability commitment.
- You have more than 3 years of leadership experience in a high-volume food service environment.
- You are flexible and know how to execute action plans in a good way, you truly make things happen.
- You have amazing ability to juggle multiple competing priorities while keeping a smile on your face.
- The IKEA Leadership approach inspires you and to lead by example is important to you.

Key Responsibilities:

- Contribute and support the implementation of the store business plan and IKEA food action plan.
- Promote a safety-first culture, as well as coach fellow coworkers in ensuring routines and requirements are known and followed in all daily work.
- Ensure that the kitchen is always in optimal state, equipment is well maintained, and the products are in perfect condition and correctly priced.
- Effectively follow proper processes and procedures in terms of food preparation, safety and waste reduction.
- Actively learn about the food we serve and sell and share your knowledge with customers and team members creating an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
- Keep customers in focus making sure that they have a consistently excellent shopping experience by empowering, challenging and coaching fellow co-workers to see through customers’ eyes.

Please Note: This position requires the submission of a satisfactory criminal record check. A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position.


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