Food Commercial Manager

"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."

Location

Sydney (Tempe)

Employment type

Full Time Permanent

Department

Food & Restaurant

Deadline

2026-09-29

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Candidate profile (title) Our team within IKEA

Candidate profile (text) - Default language At IKEA, our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We believe that everything we do comes with the responsibility to create a positive impact on people, society and the planet. We are passionate about home furnishing, creating a positive life at home and sharing our tasty responsibly sourced food with the many people across the world.

We are guided by our cultures & values, creating a outstanding place to work.
We stand for equality, diversity and inclusion.
We care about people & planet and promote health & wellbeing.
We nurture your development and provide career opportunities to unlock your potential.

Key responsibilities (title) What you need to know

Key responsibilities (text) Working at IKEA has its benefits and rewards:

- 5 weeks' Paid Annual Leave, Paid Parental Leave, Family & Community Leave and much more
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support
- 15% Co-worker discount
- Low-cost nutritious meals including complimentary drinks in our Co-worker restaurant
- Co-worker uniform provided
- Free Co-worker parking
- Bonus programme (where eligible)
- Benefits Membership (savings and discounts on everyday expenses, entertainment, retail and well-being offers across hundreds of retailers and service providers)
- Co-worker Loyalty programme (extra contribution to your superannuation fund where eligible)

Additional information:

- This role is Permanent Full-time, 76hrs/fortnight




- The internal job title is Unit Food Commercial Manager
- This role is based on-site at IKEA Tempe store
- As our store operates 7 days per week, you must be available to work a rotating roster including day and evening shifts, as well as alternating weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
- As part of the recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a video interview.

Team vision ( title) About this work area

Team vision (text) As a Food Commercial Manager, you will act as the commercial business leader for IKEA Food, driving performance across all food areas while delivering a seamless and inspiring customer experience. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

- Leading and driving food commercial operations, ensuring strong execution of the commercial strategy, commercial calendar and sales-driving initiatives.
- Implementing IKEA commercial frameworks, standards and cross merchandising strategies in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Delivering a high-quality, seamless and memorable customer experience across all food areas, including the Swedish Restaurant and Swedish Food Market.
- Securing operational excellence, ensuring food safety, compliance and high standards are consistently met.
- Coaching and developing team leaders and co-workers, ensuring the team has the right competence and capability to deliver results.
- Using customer insights and feedback to continuously improve the Food business and customer journey.
- Contributing to and executing the unit business plan and IKEA Food business plan, connecting Food to the overall store commercial agenda.
- Driving commercial performance and profitability, ensuring strong top-line sales and healthy gross margins.




- Working cross-functionally to ensure Food is integrated into the total store experience.

Let's connect Who you are

Let´s connect As a Food Commercial Manager, you are a strong, values-driven leader with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational excellence. You have:

- A passion for food, people and commercial results, with the ability to turn strategy into action.
- Proven leadership experience, with a minimum of 3 years leading teams or leaders in a high-volume, customer-facing environment, ideally within food retail or hospitality.
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing budgets, analysing P&Ls;, and optimising sales and margins.
- Excellent planning, organisational, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- The ability to influence, collaborate and build strong cross-functional relationships.
- A customer-first mindset with an understanding of customer behaviour in a retail or food environment.
- The ability to lead through change, inspire teams and deliver results through people.
- A strong alignment with IKEA values, with a passion for diversity, inclusion and creating a positive workplace culture.

Local section (title) We need people like you

Local section (text) At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us!

Why you will love us

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

What we all have in common

- Living our values
- Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
- A passion for home furnishing
- Performing & delivering while learning & developing
- Having fun!

📌 Food Commercial Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Ikea
📍 Sydney