Food Safety & Quality Leader - Meat, Seafood & Diary

Our customers have been served food in IKEA stores since 1959. In 2017 we launched Category Area Food, as part of the pursuit of a world class food supply chain. We are currently putting in place the foundation, in terms of people and ways of working. Through consolidation of today’s supplier base of more than 1.100 suppliers of food to our stores, we secure an optimal sourcing, with a strong governance to secure good quality food and mitigate risks, including food fraud.

Our wished position, is to setup a passionate and professional team, delivering high performance and robust business through a supplier base focused on safety, availability, cost, quality and sustainability. We strive to be relevant, attractive and trustworthy to become a preferred business partner.

Do you want to be part of developing the Food Safety and Quality agenda for Animal Based Category and lead its execution in a global environment? If yes, this might be the perfect challenge for you!

You will join Category Management Team and report to the Category Manager. As part of the  Category Area - Food Quality matrix you will contribute by driving category’s food safety and quality agenda, with a focus to secure execution in line with your business plan.

Another important area of responsibility is to develop and maintain food safety and quality competence within category, with an aim to deliver products fulfilling customer expectations in terms of Food Safety as well in all aspects of Democratic Design.

Main Food Safety & Quality responsibilities included in your assignment are:
Develop and execute food safety and quality agenda for the category in cooperation with BDMs, Category Manager and Engineering and Quality Manager
Develop and implement Food Safety and Quality competences in the category and suppliers to secure consistency in quality and Food Safety development
Ensure that quality tools (for example Process & Design FMEA, Six Sigma etc.) are used among the business development teams and suppliers
Support Production and Product engineers in local and global engineering/improvement/quality and Food Safety  projects
Support in analysing customer feedback, and development of project/actions to improve customer satisfaction
Support product development projects (News/Moves/Improves) in the food safety, compliance and quality dimension
Support business development team to implement quality assurance at suppliers and create pre-conditions for the suppliers to take full responsibility for their Quality  and compliance performance
Secure Category specific knowledge in introduction of new engineers
At any time, act as an ambassador of IKEA values and Role Model for Fact-based Business leadership