Inter IKEA Group - Marketing & Communication Communicator

We are currently looking for a driven and analytical Marketing & Communication communicator to join our client´s team at IKEA Range & Supply. This is a temporary position starting immediately. The assignment is 6 months and can be longer.
Company Description
Can you really reach out to the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of the forest? In Älmhult, you can. IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA retail channels with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products in the 424 IKEA stores and other multichannel touchpoints around the world. The total range is almost 10,000 products. So, what happens in Älmhult definitely doesn't stay in Älmhult. It reaches practically every corner of the globe.
We are on an exciting journey the years to come where we will strengthen the core of what we do in Range & Supply. One of these areas is Marketing & Communication where the focus is on the strategic development of the IKEA product and range marketing and communication, brand building communication as well as communication to the many people inside and outside of IKEA. It's about sharing what we do and why we do it to create engagement and build curiosity and trust for the IKEA brand.
Are you a result oriented person with great marketing and communication skills along with a great team player spirit? If so, here it is. Your chance to, join BA Kitchen, Bathroom and Home Appliances at IKEA of Sweden in the role of Marketing & Communication Communicator! As Marketing & Communication Communicator, you create and secure high quality communication content for our consumer facing touch points to make the buying process easy and smooth for our customers.
Job Description
Your main responsibilities include:
Analyse and identify the need of product and range communication content, based on insights and customer needs, in order to decide what, when and how to communicate for all consumer-facing media and channels.
Secure the customer perspective from a range and product communication point of view in the product development process (DNP) when developing news, improves and running range.
Manage the execution of the communication production in the different media activation projects such as the IKEA Catalogue, Kitchen and Bathroom brochures.
Approve, follow-up and secure that communication messages are fulfilled in the communication execution.
Proactively inform communication production suppliers about upcoming plans to secure the content readiness.
Work with product from communication perspective throughout the Product life cycle and the customer experience journey.
Contribute to the Marketing & Communication budget in the BA, as well as to the yearly Meeting The Customer plan on a tactical level.

Qualifications
The Marketing & Communication Communicator is part of the Marketing & Communication function in BA Kitchen, Bathroom and Home Appliances and reports to the Product Communication Manager. In this role we believe that you:
Have an excellent ability to, built on insights and customer needs, develop a strong and commercial customer meeting through communication
Are guided by simplicity and always strive to exceed customer expectations by delivering high quality communication
Enjoy taking initiatives and to lead and drive product- and range communication content with a customer perspective
Have several years of experience working with communication, and the ability to apply a range and communication direction to product communication
Are detailed, structured and analytical end enjoy working cross functions and organisations.
You could have experience from working in IKEA Retail –preferable selling Kitchen, Bathroom or Home appliances or working with communication in Com In, or similar job in other companies.

You are a true ambassador of IKEA culture and values and you are fluent in English, both spoken and written!
How To Apply
In this recruitment process, IKEA is partnering up with Academic Search. For more question, please contact Recearcher Mimmie Swärdén, mimmie.swarden@academicsearch.se. All information is handled confidentially in accordance with Academic Search Integrity Policy as well as the new data protection act, GDPR. This means that we can only process applications coming through the applications system. Thank you for your understanding.
About Academic Search International
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