At IKEA Food Services AB we are passionate food lovers that from our Malmö office develop and provide food for the many people around the world. Every year 680 million visitors experience a taste of Sweden in the IKEA Restaurants, Swedish Food Markets and Bistro´s in our different markets. With Food at the heart of everyday life, we offer honest food for the many people and the planet.

We are on an exciting journey the years to come. We will strengthen the way we work with Food Services and the Product and Dish Developer role is an essential part of that. The Food Services team will strive to create customer success with our offer by focusing on price and quality, design and function, environment and health.
Based on the needs of our customer we want to continuously challenge and develop our range and the customer experience and contribute to growth.

The Product and Dish Developer is part of the Food Services team and reports to the Range Design Leader. The position will be based in Malmö with occasional travelling.

As Product and Dish Developer you:
• Will lead the product dish development by engaging the full capabilities of the value chain to deliver democratic design products with unique IKEA identity and commerciality.
• Will be responsible for development of global as well as market specific recipes and dishes and enable the IKEA pantry build-up. 
• Support markets with creating a commercial and unique IKEA range offer, embracing the local food trends and innovations.
• Transform knowledge and insights around democratic design and Nordic food heritage into product development of regional food range.
• Collaborate with the Range & Product team and IKEA retailers to develop the range offer to be market relevant and IKEA unique.
• Contribute with culinary skills in the development of new recipes and products as well as to the revision of existing products.

About you:
In order to be successful in this role you come with experience from a chef assignment and product development in a food business. You have good knowledge of recipe and menu development as well as restaurants and food service operations. You have a broad knowledge of Nordic ingredients, flavors, processing and cooking methods.  You have the natural ability to cook, and a desire to share that passion and knowledge with others.

You are result oriented and able work and deliver many projects simultaneously under time constrains. You have the ability to to work in a complex, constantly changing, international working environment.
The passion for Food and the IKEA Food Journey as well as for the IKEA Food Health and Sustainability Strategy is obvious and you want to be hands on working to deadlines to make things happen in reality.

Sounds interesting? Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role.

The last day to send your application is August 30rd.
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Christina Encoson +46 732321074 or Sandra Lundén +46 734169116.
Note that summer is coming and this might mean a delay in answers, please be patient.

We welcome all applications. In the first selection process, we consider candidates from IKEA of Sweden, IKEA Food Services and IKEA Communications, including Creative Hub and Global Marketing from INGKA.