Product Communicator (IKEA Home Smart, Älmhult)

Job description

About the job

Product Communicator
Business Area Lighting & IKEA Home Smart
IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

Business Area Lighting & IKEA Home Smart has an exciting future ahead! With IKEA Home Smart we inspire and enable our customers to live a more convenient and beautiful life at home. We are making homes smarter by combining new but available technology with our knowledge of life at home! We want to provide functional, simple, easy-to-use and joyful solutions that add value to the many people's everyday lives, of course at an affordable price. We also strengthen the perception of IKEA as being innovative, surprising and fun.

About you
To be successful in this role you need to have a passion for people's everyday life at home, home furnishing and our range. Preferably, you have knowledge of strategic communication and experience in working throughout all dimensions of communication. You have experience in Project Management and as a person you are analytical, structured and methodical. You are a change driver, initiator and you are able to take leadership on tasks, processes and people. You have both a detailed and holistic perspective and you appreciate simplicity. You have excellent communication skills securing IKEA tone of voice and you have the ability to engage and inspire by networking cross functions and organisations. The ability to express yourself confidently and clearly in English is a prerequisite.

About the assignment
The product is not sellable or showable without the product communication surrounding it. Product Communication content consists of all facts, all texts and stories, all visuals, pictures and motion media as well as all communication in and on packages and also store communication.

About the job
You contribute to a successful meeting with the customer by securing high quality product communication for all media.
You analyse the need of product communication content (e.g. texts and visual) by doing a product communication analysis and you take a complete content ownership.
You secure the customer and communication perspective on each product.
You secure a strategic view on the product communication content needs by developing strategies and guidelines per product, category and range as well as delivering to the main communication messages and commercial strategies.
You act as a key contributor when developing a new content types, based on the needs emerging from range, legal compliance, sustainability, customers, markets, media and sales channels.
You act as a project leader when ordering, briefing and approving product communication content, including store communication carriers.
You contribute in the Product Communication budget process by doing a Product Communication overview plan.
You secure the quality of product communication content in Product Information Assistance (PIA) and other back-end databases and handle other administrative tasks connected with creation of product communication.

This is a temporary position for 12 months.

The position is permanent and located in Älmhult, Sweden.Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö and an IKEA shuttle bus back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Alexander Frisk at . With questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Helena Grönberg at .

We look forward to receiving your application in English!
IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduce 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.

Job ID

280045BR

Removal Date

21/04/2017