Ikea Careers UAE – Food Inventory Controller

Job Description:

You are a passionate person ready for a bigger scope of responsibility. You are curious to challenge existing ways of working and able to develop new knowledge, skills & behaviors. You create an environment where IKEA’s values are a strong and living reality that adopts the diversity of co-workers and visitors. You accelerate all business opportunity and owner of the Food & Beverage Department.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a mechanism in place to ensure our guests are always in focus and strive to make them smile
• Proactively set plans to ensure actions are taken into consideration based on the IKEA values and strategy
• Always look at the Food areas through the eyes of our customers and walk the stores regularly.
• Have a frequent dialogue with our guests to get continuous feedback about their experiences and to learn more about their needs and wants, then act based on their input
• Responsible to liaise closely with the commercial team on various operational and cost related agreements
• Implement common Food commercial framework and KPI’s adapting to local legislation and laws
• Introduce & develop Inventory management routines, and train other stake holders regarding implementation
• Work actively to make the IKEA Food department successful and high performing, today and tomorrow, by attracting visitors, achieving sales growth and reasonable profitability, ensuring the satisfaction of customers and co-workers, and excellent operational performance as measured through our defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as consumables, disposables costs
• Generating purchase and pricing reports, supply chain analysis, and inventory management systems to secure profitability
• To prepare and distributes all necessary documents to support the receiving, storing, transferring, or returning of any food and beverage items.
• To audit and assist in the physical count of all inventory items across our operating stores
• Carry out physical spot-checks in Food stores during stock-takes
• Input and compiles a physical inventory routine for each store and ensure all inventory is accounted for and reported according to company policy

Job Requirements:

• Strong knowledge and interest of culinary or food service industry is preferred
• Ability to generate purchase and pricing reports, supply chain analysis, and inventory management systems to secure profitability
• Good Knowledge of inventory management / Stock takes
• Ability to challenging suppliers for better prices
• Financial planning to optimize revenue, and maintaining gross margins
• Live and share the IKEA values every day
• Ability to conduct spot checks in kitchen to ensure that food is prepare as per recipe standards
• Ability to speak and understand verbal and written English at Business level
• Strong Ability to conduct Audits incoming food deliveries, invoices, entries in system for quality and accuracy; Identifies discrepancies or issues
• Conduct spot checks in kitchen to ensure that food is prepare as per recipe standards
• Excellent computer skills; experience in accounting software and Microsoft office in Excel, access, database, or other system knowledge

Qualification & Experience:

• 5 – 7 years in Food Service senior experience as an inventory and cost controller in a high-volume business
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration with an emphasis in accounting, or a related field

Job Details:

Company: IKEA

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Dubai, UAE

Application Deadline: N/A

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