DEPARTMENT MANAGER (M/F)

Company description:

Orkla Foods Sverige prepares food and beverages in Sweden with love and care for people, the sea, and the land. We are a local community player that, with our 1500 employees, makes a difference and contributes to a more sustainable and healthy everyday life.

Job description: Quality & Environment Manager, Orkla Foods Sverige, Eslöv

Do you want to lead the work for quality, food safety, and sustainable development at one of our most important factories?

Here you make a difference

We are now looking for a Quality and Environment Manager who wants to take a key role in the work of ensuring good, safe, and sustainably produced food from our factory in Eslöv. In this role, you have the overall responsibility for food safety, quality assurance, environment, and sustainability issues, while also leading and developing the teams within quality and environment.

You will become an important part of the factory's management group and translate Orkla's strategy, goals, and customer requirements into clear priorities in everyday life. With a focus on quality, structure, and improvement, you will drive working methods that strengthen both product quality, sustainability, and cross-functional collaboration.

This is an opportunity for you who want to make a real impact – by developing people, building long-term sustainable working methods, and contributing to products that reach many Swedish homes every day.

What you will have the opportunity to work with

Lead, develop, and coach the teams within quality and environment with a focus on engagement, clarity, and common goals.

Set goals, follow up on plans, and lead change and improvement initiatives through KPIs, analysis, and a structured working method.

Act as a local requirement setter within food safety, quality assurance, environment, and sustainability.

Ensure compliance with laws, environmental permits, certifications, customer requirements, and internal guidelines.

Contribute actively to the factory's management group and ensure that local initiatives and projects are in line with Orkla's and the factory's goals.

Participate in the work with the factory's investment plan and long-term priorities.

Be the contact person for authorities, customers, auditors, suppliers, and other external stakeholders regarding quality and environment.

Profile description: We are looking for you who

We are looking for you who has experience and confidence in leading others and creating engagement, preferably with experience from a role within quality, environment, or production. You find it easy to drive activities/projects forward, create structure and direction, and bring people along in change. Furthermore, to succeed in the role, we think that you:

Have a relevant university education in, for example, chemistry, biology, engineering, or equivalent experience.

Have experience from the food industry and/or other manufacturing operations with high requirements for quality and safety.

Have a good understanding of quality assurance, quality development, and structured working methods.

Have experience with environmental issues, permit processes, and collaboration with, for example, authorities or auditors.

Communicate fluently in English, both spoken and written.

It is meritorious if you have

Experience with management systems within quality, environment, or food safety.

Knowledge of systematic improvement work.

Experience of developing teams and working methods in an operation with a high tempo and clear requirements.

We offer: This is what you get with us

At Orkla Foods Sverige, you will become part of one of Sweden's largest food and beverage companies, with local factories, strong brands, and products that many have a relationship with. Here you will have the opportunity to influence both people, working methods, and the future of sustainable food production. We believe in responsibility, collaboration, and development – and in the fact that we grow and win together.

Ready to take the next step?

Does this sound like an exciting opportunity for you? Then read the full advertisement on our website www.orklafoods.se and welcome with your application. We work with continuous selection and interviews, so please send in your application as soon as possible. The last date for application to this position is August 9, 2026.

All applications are treated confidentially. Unfortunately, we do not have the possibility to receive applications via email. If you have specific questions that are important for being able to make a decision on an application, you are warmly welcome to contact HR Business Partner Line Ellvåg, line.ellvag@orklafoods.se.

A warm welcome with your application and become a part of our team!