IKEA Food Team Leader

IKEA; Toronto; On-site; CAD 49,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an IKEA Food Team Leader where you will lead a team to ensure excellent service in food offerings. You will utilize your leadership experience to enhance customer satisfaction, follow food safety procedures, and foster a positive work environment. Benefit from a comprehensive rewards package designed for the wellbeing and development of all co-workers.

Benefits

Wellness days

Extended health, dental, and vision coverage

RRSP with IKEA contribution matching

Annual IKEA bonus incentive

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Merchandise and restaurant discounts

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• More than 3 years of leadership experience in high-volume food service.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the business and food action plan implementation.
• Ensure proper food preparation and safety procedures.

Skills

Customer Service

Team Leadership

Food Safety

Job description

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!




Why you will love us
Here at IKEA, we want to ensure that we are creating a better everyday life for the many people, including our co-workers. We also believe that a job should be so much more than a job. That’s why we focus on having an inclusive work environment where we celebrate your uniqueness, live our values, and ensure that we walk the talk when it comes to co-worker development. In addition, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to all co-workers including:
• Wellness days (in addition to your vacation days!)
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
• RRSP with IKEA contribution matching options
• Eligibility for our annual IKEA bonus incentive plan
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Merchandise and restaurant discounts (plus free drinks and different healthy meal options in the co-worker restaurant, where available)
• Parental leave
• Bereavement leave
• Employee assistance program (that helps you support your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing)

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



The starting rate/ salary for this position ranges from 49120 CAD to 55260 CAD and will be based on relevant work experience.