Communication Specialist

Hej Communication Specialist,

Do you want to go to work and help create a better life at home?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Communication Specialist, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

As a Communication Specialist, you’ll play an important part in the team. You’ll bring communication plans to life. The impact of our work will resonate in homes and hearts across the world. Your tactical skills and hands-on communication abilities make you a pragmatic contributor to the business. You enable colleagues to use communication in the best ways to reach their desired business results – and you make sure they can measure their impact and improve the next time around, too.

You’ll report to the Communication Manager of Retail Concept. The Retail Concept Communication team has the assignment to support and enable the core business of Retail Concept to reach its business goals and on a typical working day you’ll:

• Execute communication plans
• Collaborate with colleagues in the business
• Creating, producing and activating content in our different communication channels
• Make messages clear, simple, and understandable to various target groups
• Secure the IKEA tone of voice
• Providing relevant support, guidelines, tools and templates
• Participate, and contributing to, relevant networks and cross-functional assignments.
• Act as an ambassador and role model for the IKEA Brand, culture, and values.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role of the Communication Specialist will need a high level of passion for communication and good collaboration skills as you will be working together with the communication colleagues in Retail Concept. We also think you have good ability to drive engagement, and create communication plans and assets, always with simplicity in mind. It is also important to have an understanding of how communication supports and increases the impact of a business agenda, to be able to support the leadership areas in a good way. We value experience from the retail side of the IKEA business, and we think you are a team player with a positive mindset, a structured way of working and ability to move things forward.

To thrive in this role, you have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience within communication
• Demonstrated experience of being hands-on, structured, and a service-minded team player with ability to meet deadlines and work independently as well as together
• Ability to create communication with simplicity in mind
• Good understanding of the communication channel landscape and how to reach different target groups
• Good understanding of working with communication planning and execution, and an understanding of how communication supports and increases the impact of a business agenda
• Good understanding of how to deliver a successful presentation
• Good understanding of layout, copywriting, and web-publishing
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Ability to build trust, and strong working relationships across a diverse group of people
• Are passionate about retail, life at home and home furnishing

Be yourself, a Communication Specialist, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with the franchise offer from range and suppliers to the retail concept and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

In Retail Concept we have the assignment to protect, expand and develop the IKEA Concept and the IKEA Brand in existing and new markets. We share IKEA knowledge and learning across the franchisee system.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by June 4th, 2025.

This is a full-time role and can be placed in either Delft, the Netherlands or Malmö, Sweden. The Communication Specialist will report to the Communication Manager for Retail Concept.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs. At IKEA we’re all on the same project.
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know. 

For any questions about the recruitment process, you can connect with recruiter Sarah Arshad: sarah.arshad@inter.ikea.com. Please note that we do not accept applications through email.