Communication Business Partner

WHO YOU ARE
You are good, nay great, with leading communication campaigns. It’s your superpower and you are proud ensuring that communication contributes to love, trust and company’s growth.
You understand the best practices in the communication field, and you keep yourself updated on the latest developments in this space using this knowledge and insights to formulate, plan, lead and secure execution of 360 communication campaigns across the markets, around the world!
Since you are deeply passionate you are confident to act as a true strategic partner in communications to cocreate, advice and challenge as well as share your knowledge and expertise.
For the past 5 years you have worked with both, internal and external communication and your ability to build and maintain strategic business connections allows you to act fast and take decisions in crisis situations. These previous experiences have given you a good understanding of PR, PA and Co-workers Comms expertise and their stakeholders.
Amongst other things you have experience in:
· Working across the markets with a regional responsibility
· Using insights to formulate communication plans and campaigns
· Leveraging communication to enable better business outcomes
· Developing and using communication standards and manuals to follow rules, comply to standards and provide direction.
And your English is excellent, both spoken and written
A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
As our Communications Business Partner you will serve as a senior strategic partner to our regional managers, by effectively contributing to the synergy of global assets, plans and frameworks and market priorities.
You will also act as the bridge between the markets and/or the other company functions and the communications team, by understanding their needs and bringing in subject/channel-expert advisors as necessary to execute for greatest impact.
The Communications Business Partner will work across our markets. You will be the market/topic expert in the Communication function, bringing outside-in and inside-out insights back into the function - and actively participate in the annual comms planning process. You will coach, advise and ensure hands on support for your colleagues and Meeting Places (that is how we call our shopping centers) with planning and creating communication through guidelines, corporate communication calendar and the long-term positioning.
Additionally, you will:
· Work together with other Business Partners, especially Marketing and Sustainability, as well as IKEA Country Comms Teams around joint activities to maximise the impact of communication and drive positive outcomes
· Act as a communication representative for markets, key projects, new market entries and strategic cross-organisation topics. Hold and drive the integrated communication plan, ensuring these are built into overall comms planning with clear outcomes, KPIs and performance. Leading execution in partnership with channel/subject-matter specialists.
· Lead the implementation of annual communication plan with market perspective
· With Comms Planning & Performance Leader, ensure comms performance data/insights are captured
In this role you will be reporting into the Global Communications Operations Manager at Ingka Centres. This is a one (1) year temporary assignment.
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
Together with IKEA Retail and Ingka Investments, Ingka Centres is part of Ingka Group.
As a long-term partner of IKEA, we share our vision, our culture and our values, while what makes our businesses different is the way we fulfil our vision. If the idea of IKEA is to create a better life at home, we work hard to create a better everyday life outside of the home by developing virtual and physical meeting places where people can meet shop and connect with their communities.
We have big plans for the future that involve expanding to new locations, opening smaller-scale concepts closer to the city centres, digitalization, and most of all, living up to shared sustainability goals. We’re constantly looking for energetic, purpose-led and creative people who’d like to join us on our journey to create meeting places around the world.
Sounds exciting? There’s a lot more to know about us! Take a look at our website, read our stories and try to imagine how you can be part of our team helping us reach our goals!
www.ingkacentres.com
This role belongs to Communication domain. The Purpose of our function is to build love and trust in our brands and our meeting places, with all the people we want to reach, in order to drive growth.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
Perhaps there is something you´re wondering about? For job specific questions, or questions about the recruitment process? Please contact Hektor Thomke at hektor.thomke@ingka.com
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, though no later than 2022-11-03.
We look forward to receiving your application!