Unit Manager for the Food Unit in Leksand Municipality

Are you in a leading position in a restaurant kitchen or within a food service in a municipality and feel ready for new challenges? Are you looking to work daytime to have evenings and weekends off? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

Job Highlights:

• A department in strong development
• Collegial network with central support functions
• Engaged colleagues, employees, and a good work environment

Your Responsibilities

As the unit manager for the food unit, you have a broad and responsible role. You lead the unit with a focus on the municipality's values and create a positive work environment where structure and clarity are central. You are responsible for personnel, work environment, quality, economy, and results within your area.

You work strategically to develop the operations and ensure that resources are used effectively in line with the municipality's economic goals. By developing and implementing action plans and strategies, you contribute to achieving the municipality's overall goals and visions.

You follow up and evaluate the unit's results, initiate improvement projects, and ensure that the operations comply with laws, regulations, and municipal guidelines. The role also involves representing the food unit internally and externally, collaborating with the department head, other unit managers, and external actors, as well as handling feedback and complaints in a professional manner.

Examples of Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the food unit's budget and resource management
• Develop and implement strategies and action plans
• Participate in the municipality's crisis preparedness work
• Together with colleagues, be responsible for specific focus areas

Your Profile

For this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• Relevant university education or other education or experience deemed equivalent by the employer
• Leadership experience in restaurants or large kitchens, preferably with a chef's education or degree in nutrition
• Several years of documented leadership experience, preferably in public operations
• Good knowledge of data and Swedish (spoken and written)
• Knowledge of relevant legislation
• Experience in budget work, financial follow-up, change management, and development work

About the Workplace

The department is part of the Sector of Operational Support and has about 140 employees within the departments: Administration, Finance and Payroll, HR, IT, Communication, Security and Preparedness, Food and Cleaning, and Customer Service. The sector's mission is to create the best conditions for other sectors in the municipality to focus on their core operations.

Within the food and cleaning department, you will be part of a management group with the department head, unit managers, and administrative coordinators. Within the food unit, you will lead together with a unit manager assigned areas with head chefs, cooks, meal assistants, food distributors, and combined services. The unit has about 50 employees divided into 7 receiving kitchens and 8 production kitchens that produce food for preschools, schools, high schools, and special accommodations within Leksand Municipality.

We Offer You

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and have an increased quality of life through working in the municipality. If we succeed in this, there are good conditions to also succeed in our common task, which is:

• We do what we are supposed to do by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping focus on those we are here for.
• We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us.
• We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are here for, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, training, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see www.leksand.se/jobbahososs (http://www.leksand.se/jobbahososs)

For you as an applicant, we have the opportunity to offer relocation services, see further www.rekryteringslots.se (http://www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your Application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter.

Identification to verify your identity must be presented at a possible interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes. Please note that this position is subject to background checks. The type of check conducted depends on the content and responsibilities of the position. More information about this will be provided during the recruitment process.

The application deadline is 2026-01-23

Appointment will be made by agreement.

We review CVs continuously, so it is good if you submit your application as soon as possible. Feedback on any questions related to the position will be answered no earlier than January 2nd.

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