Communication Leader - Circular IKEA

Company Description
Inter IKEA Group (IIG) brings together core businesses: Franchise, Range & Supply. While constantly improving the IKEA home furnishing offer, we are guided by the vision of “creating a better everyday life for the many people". Making a positive difference to people and the environment is one of the key ways we can do that.
The transformation of IKEA into a circular business is underway, and it is one of our biggest ambitions and challenges for the future. Over time it will affect everything we do: how and where we meet our customers, how and what products and services we develop, how we source materials, and develop the IKEA supply chain. To secure a successful positioning of IKEA as a leading brand in circularity, we are now looking for a Communication leader to join the Circular IKEA team.
Job Description
As Communication leader you lead and create effective communication securing the communication process by defining, planning, executing, and following up communication to relevant stakeholders.
More specifically, your main responsibilities are:
Create, coordinate and maintain internal content for the Shared Strategic Initiative Circular IKEA, ensuring a strong message base for cross-IKEA communication.
Lead and strengthen the co-workers understanding and knowledge of circularity by integration into internal communication to build awareness and inspire co-workers.
Contribute to external communication, partnership coordination and planning by securing alignment and coordination from a business perspective together with Sustainability engagement & communication.
Support the creation of business communications (presentations, pre-reads, business updates etc.) as well as provide direction on content, frequency, and most effective media.
Work cross-functional to enable transparent and inspiring communication across IKEA, contributing to better learning and understanding of circularity as an enabler for business movements.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you need to have a passion for creating communication materials and telling a compelling story, both visual and text focused production.
As a person you are curious, proactive, and hands-on oriented and thrive in having different assignments on various topics while keeping the bigger, strategic picture in mind. You find it easy to adapt to new situations and to co-create with a variety of stakeholders. You are organised and structured and know how to turn communication needs into communication with a clear focus on delivering communication at the right time and in a way that meets both business objectives as well as the receiver needs.
You have experience from collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to build trust and partnership, strong relationships and networks. You have strong knowledge of how to segment audiences, creating and strengthen key messages to support needs and situations of different target groups.
Additional information
The position is in Älmhult, Sweden, an inspirational working environment, based on creativity and innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö, and an IKEA shuttle bus running back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.
At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.
If you have any questions regarding, please contact People & Culture Recruiter Zuzana Vackova, Zuzana.vackova1@inter.ikea.com.
We look forward to receiving your application (CV and cover letter) in English, at the latest by 21st May 2022!