Ikea Food Kitchen Production Manager

We are looking for a professional and hard-working Kitchen Production Manager for full-time (37.5h/week) & permanent position in IKEA Espoo store.

As a Kitchen Production Manager, you will lead and manage a big kitchen production team by building business and people together.
You will take ownership for ensuring food safety and train others as appropriate.
You strive to make people smile while providing irresistible food offers in a welcoming atmosphere that gives our guests a good reason to return again and again.
You understand the importance of your team, your greatest asset. You succeed in your goals when your team members shine in their job as individuals and as a united team.
You have solid experience of managing, leading and developing a large team in a retail/food service environment.
You have an advanced knowledge of food production and food safety.
You have experience of creating and executing action plans, setting budgets and following up on goals. In this role your team goals are sales figures, staff costs, stock control and waste management.
You like routines in your daily work and working together with your team of IKEA Food professionals, including team leaders, shift leaders and co-workers.
You can communicate fluently in Finnish and in English.
You are flexible and available to work also evenings and weekends.

Normally you work 2 evenings per week and 1-2 weekends per month.

✔ Empowering and encouraging the team to take immediate action to meet the needs of customers and giving input on how to continuously improve our meeting with them.

✔ Securing that the preparation of food is always in line with IKEA concept and quality standards, food safety standards and local legislation.

✔ Taking advantage of every commercial opportunity to grow sales and profitability.

✔ Ensuring together with the team that the kitchen area is clean and well maintained and that daily work routines are in place e.g. goods flow, stock control, ordering, production and waste management. You follow up on these in your daily work.

✔ Securing the right number of competent co-workers, at the right times, in the right places to meet customers’ needs. You are supported by people planning specialist with the actual shift planning. Your responsibility is to follow the hourly budget and set base staff need for each week and month and estimate the recruitment needs.

✔ Ensuring the proper production levels in order to ensure freshness, maximize sales and minimize waste.

In this role you will report to the Unit Food Manager.
You know that the food business is a people business. You are motivated in making people perform, deliver, learn, grow and develop through a strong sense of togetherness.

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!

This position is full time and permanent. Starting in the role is by agreement but latest in the beginning of February 2026.

You will have a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with the new role alongside the current Kitchen production manager for the first few months.

Please, attach an updated CV and a motivation letter with your application and salary request latest on Sun 28.12.2025, so we can get to know you better!

If you have job specific questions, you can contact IKEA Food Manager Miisa Pylkkänen in Finnish or in English: miisa.pylkkanen@ingka.ikea.com.


Warmly welcome with your application!

World needs more people like you. So do we. Come to work with us just as you are.

Working at IKEA is more than just a job – with us you are part of an equal and diverse working community. A sense of belonging is important to our employees, and team spirit is at the heart of what we do. IKEA offers a variety of career paths and opportunities to develop yourself in roles that are right for you. We give you the opportunity to bring your ideas to the table to help us develop our work, and to create new IKEA success!

We value all our employees equally and our pay is in line with the collective agreement for the retail sector. Your monthly salary level will depend on your job role, your previous work experience and any relevant qualifications.

In addition to your salary, you will also enjoy a wide range of comprehensive staff benefits, including:

• Staff discount on IKEA-products
• Healthy and delicious breakfast and lunch menus at very low prices in our staff restaurant
• One IKEA Bonus
• Gifts on special days and at Christmas
• Flexible Smartum saldo
• Free usage IKEA Espoo staff gym
• Comprehensive occupational health services
• And many other benefits from our partners, like massage and gym services.