Communication Leader - Purchasing Development

About the assignment
The overall communication assignment is to lead develop and enable impactful communication that delivers to making IKEA even more affordable accessible and sustainable and contribute to strengthening IKEA as a meaningful and trusted brand in peoples hearts and minds.

Were looking for a senior communication leader to come and join our team within Supply Communication. The primary focus of this role will be on leading communication connected to our Purchasing Development unit who leads and develops the sourcing and purchasing of home furnishing products food and indirect services. We want to provide our customers with an affordable offer while putting quality sustainability responsible sourcing and availability in the forefront.

If you are a communication professional who gets excited about business building a communicative organisation and the IKEA brand this is the job for you!  This is a great opportunity for a seasoned communication professional who is eager to shape develop challenge and lead impactful strategic messaging supporting the business agenda. 

We believe that if you were already with us you would experience a diverse workday unlike any other place with many different topics circulating. Youd come together with communication and business professionals sitting all over the IKEA value chain and globe. Your core teams are everpresent but the network is huge. Youd exchange ideas and knowledge youd listen learn teach and discuss. You are part of a movement involving the many people and you understand that to succeed we need to work together.  

Youd be working close to a business area (referred to as a Category Area) and be an active member of the Category Area management team who develops the strategic and tactical business and people agenda of that business. In your daily work youd enable leaders to connect people to business priorities and engage coworkers on the strategic movements. Youd also be leading and cocreating the storytelling of our supply chain movements both internally and externally.  

We could write about who you are and what you can do all day but we would much rather have you show us.  

For you to be successful in the role we believe that you have extensive knowledge and understanding of:

• Lead and develop holistic communication to strengthen the IKEA Brand and enable better business. 
• Act as a strategic partner and tactical support to the Category Area team to define and enable their communication needs and goals. 
• Contribute as active member to the Purchasing Development Communication Team. 
• Contribute to the creation implementation and engagement of business strategies priorities and processes through communication. 
• Create clear and actionable communication plans and when needed to enable efficient and effective creation production and followup. 
• Lead brand risk assessments and together with stakeholders drive mitigation activities.
• Plan and execute change management.
• Contribute and deliver to crossfunctional assignments prioritised in the common communication plan. 
• Drive internal and external communication projects taking different stakeholder perspectives into account. 
• Develop the communication competence in the unit/area/function and enable others to lead with communication and represent the IKEA Brand according to the IKEA values and tone of voice.

Qualifications :

About you

• Role model of the IKEA values contributes to an open culture where coworkers feel informed included engaged and empowered. 
• Experienced communicator with at least 5 years working experience in strategic communication field. 
• Extensive knowledge interest and understanding of working with business and communication planning and execution and an understanding of how communication supports and increases the impact of a business agenda. 
• Relevant experience in leading projects and supporting/leading changes. 
• Dare to think differently and you have an agile approach and adapt as you go. 
• Pragmatic and solution oriented always with quality in your deliveries. 
• Interested in finding new ways of working and are highly motivated to do this by leading our business agenda through people and collaborate and interact with many different stakeholders creating new relations and networks. 
• Strong in building trust and relationships across a diverse group of people. 

Additional Information :

Sounds interesting

We look forward to receiving your CV and Cover Letter (in English) where you tell us more about yourself and why you believe you fit into this job. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. This position is a permanent role and is based in lmhult Sweden.

We regret that we are unable to handle applications made by email. We encourage you to apply your application via our recruitment system SmartRecruiters but no later than 18th Feb. 2025. 

If you have questions about the role please contact recruiting manager Communication Manager Purchasing Development Maria Grlin at . If you have questions about the recruitment process please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at .

We look forward to receiving your application!