Communication Specialist - Web Social media

  • Full-time

Company Description

Älmhult is the heart of IKEA. This is where our culture and values were shaped and still develop. This is where the global range and product development for IKEA takes place today and where we want to continue to develop together with the municipality and the community at large. Älmhult is a melting pot of many different nationalities and cultures. Because to make things better for the many, we want to involve people from all parts of the world. Nonetheless, we never forget our Swedish heritage that forms the backbone of who we are today.

IKEA Älmhult AB is a holding company and forms a company group with IKEA Museum, IKEA Hotell, IKEA Property AB. We are an independent entity within the Inter IKEA Group.

With a unique role to support the positioning of “IKEA in Älmhult”, IKEA Älmhult AB, together with IKEA Museum, IKEA Hotell, IKEA Property AB in collaborations with many others, works to secure the development of Älmhult as an attractive and great place. A place where I want to work, live and visit, today and tomorrow.

 

 

Job Description

We are expanding our Communication team with a Communication Specialist.

Within the communication team we work with strategical, tactical and operational plans contributing to the overall experience of IKEA in Älmhult. We work with a wide range of media and channels to reach and interact with the many IKEA co-workers working and/or living in Älmhult as well as globally and the many visitors to our public meeting places. From Web and social media to information design, networks and events.


As a Communication specialist working with us you will produce inspiring and engaging communication to share our offer with the many people working in, living in and visiting Älmhult. You will lead different communication projects to improve, develop, follow up and analyze results and suggest and implement improvements.

This is a creative and hands on role, where you are going to define, produce and design both internal and external marketing communication.


With the communication team as a base, you will participate and contribute to different cross-functional assignments within the Work, Live Visit programme and the company group. This is a great opportunity to put your skills in visual, written and verbal communication to inspire others, strengthen the IKEA Brand and inspire with our overall offer.

Some of your tasks:

  • Set and develop social media content calendar in consultation with relevant stakeholders
  • Create new content (copy and visuals) and/or adapting existing content to fit for web- internal and external, social media and printed media creating interest/engagement/interaction with followers/receivers.
  • Developing, implementing and optimizing content across all relevant platforms and media channels in order to create interest/engagement/interactions
  • Occasionally support business communication with creating presentations for different media
  • Support in-house communication updates for our public meeting places with signs, templates and menus in line with the IKEA Tone of Voice and Visual Identity in all strengthening the IKEA brand.
  • Lead and develop several communication projects

Qualifications

·We are looking for you who are very creative, curious, passionate about people and communication. Not afraid to try new things and develop new skills and areas as we go along.

 You strongly relate to the IKEA values and find motivation in doing things better together and differently with a purpose.

You have experience and insights working with different platforms, web and Social Media with the skill to identify and produce engaging content for internal and external channels.

Your English and Swedish is excellent, and you have a collaborative and prestige-less approach in projects and assignments.

You find motivation in all stages of developing, planning, producing and executing / publishing.

You have capability and understanding of how to facilitate and deliver a message or a presentation as well copywriting with an IKEA Tone of voice . You are confident working in Adobe Creative suite in general and Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Rush/Pro and After Effects in particular.

You are skilled within the area of graphic design, meaning you can take lead in the overall graphic design process and have an eye for details.

You are also a person to go to when it comes to the more traditional tools such as Powerpoint and Word.

Are you passionate about communication and excited about how this can be an enabler and tactical tool to share our great offer strengthening and developing Älmhult as a great place to work in, live in and visit? With IKEA tone of voice as a base, do you see it as a dream come true to work with creating communication for the many people?  Do you have a minimum of 2 years working experience as a communication professional working for an international company and excellent skills in English and Swedish? Do you have an educational background from Communication or Marketing on University level or similar that can be considered equal? Then you might be just the one we are looking for.

Additional Information

To include with application;

·         Cover letter

·         CV

·         Portfolio showcasing your previous work

If you have any questions about the position please connect with Jenny Wassink, Communication Manager, 0708788445

Last day to apply is november 1 but we are evaluating applications on a continuous basis.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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