Product Communication Specialist | RA Store & organise

Company Description

Are you passionate about showing how smart storage can create a more harmonious home?

Life is messy, and the demand for smart, affordable, and flexible storage is growing. We might not be able to solve all your problems, but we want to help create an organised home where it’s easier to unwind — a beautiful organised home for the things you love – on display or hidden away.

In Range Area Store & Organise furniture, we’re a team of 50 highly motivated storage fanatics, working every day to improve our offer for the many spaces in the home — with a special focus on the living room, the heart of the home. From cabinets and sideboards to bookcases, shelving units, and TV benches, our solutions are functional, beautifully designed, and easy to place — all at prices so low that the many people can afford them.

We are now looking for a Product Communication Specialist on a 12-month temporary assignment to join our commercial team!

Job Description

What you do as a Product Communication Specialist

You develop strong communication for our range while also supporting communication topics to improve the quality of our consumer facing communication as well as our ways of working in the team.

You will:

• Analyze and identify the need for product and range communication content, based on insights and customer needs, 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,
• 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 Communication budget in the RA, as well as to the yearly HFB commercial plan on a tactical level.

You will be part of the Communication function that is responsible for all global product-related marketing & communication content.

Qualifications

• Value-based leadership aligned with the IKEA values,
• An excellent ability to build on insights and customer needs to develop a strong commercial message,
• Guided by simplicity and always strive to exceed customer expectations by delivering high quality communication,
• Detailed, structured and analytical and enjoy working cross functions and organizations,
• Enjoy taking initiatives and to lead and drive product- and range communication content and other communication projects with the consumer in focus,
• several years of experience working with communication, including digital, and a solid track record of marketing and/or communication, preferably with an academic degree in Marketing, Communication or equivalent.
• You are a true ambassador of IKEA culture and values, and you are fluent in both spoken and written English.

Additional information

This is a 12-month temporary role based in Älmhult, Sweden. We do offer the possibility to work from home but embrace collaboration, which is why it is important that you can be at our office the majority of the time.