Team Manager

Hej!

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 Team Manager, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

As the Communication Team Manager you’ll play an important part in the team, you will co-lead the communication assignment alongside the Communication Manager for Inter IKEA Group Enabling functions. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and execute the operational communication plan, ensuring alignment with stakeholders to maintain consistency. Through your team, you will oversee the creation and activation of communication content across relevant channels, aiming to inform and engage co-workers and stakeholders effectively. Additionally, you will ensure the necessary preconditions for delivering on the communication plan are in place, including securing resources, establishing efficient ways of working, and providing the appropriate tools.

On a typical working day, you will be responsible for the development and execution of the operational communication plan together with your team and colleagues across Inter IKEA Group. Ensure the creation, activation, and follow-up of communication content to inform and engage co-workers and other stakeholders. We are fully committed to working together across, and you will play a key role in driving collaboration with relevant stakeholders across the Inter IKEA Group communication community and other functions to ensure an integrated communication approach

• Lead and develop the communication team, creating conditions for both business excellence and personal growth.
• Translate long-term strategic priorities into clear, inspiring business objectives, steering the team towards achieving standout communication results that we can measure.
• Build trust and strong working relationships across a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Serve as a strategic communicator with a solid background in communication planning and execution.
• Coach and influence leaders and co-workers, aligning them with business goals.
• Proactively solve problems and mitigate risks with a hands-on approach when needed.
• Contribute to impacting business strategies, priorities, and processes, and their successful implementation through communication and change communication.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

You are a leader with a strong track record in building high-performance teams, fostering networks, sharing knowledge, and coaching others. Known for cultivating a trust-filled, creative environment where psychological safety is prioritized, and mistakes are embraced as opportunities for learning and growth.

With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you build trust and engagement across both internal and external stakeholders. Your deep understanding of the IKEA value chain, business model, and strategic landscape enables you to use communication as a powerful, strategic tool to lead the business and inspire people.

You thrive in environments that require a balance of strategic thinking and tactical execution and you balances big-picture thinking with attention to complex details, consistently turning communication theory into impactful practice.

We also see that you have:

• Comprehensive understanding of communication and change management principles.
• Strong written, visual, and spoken communication skills, and the ability to communicate in an inspiring way with IKEA tone of voice
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Be yourself, a Communication Team Manager, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers 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.

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 4th of June, 2025.

This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and based in Malmö, Sweden. This role sits in the Communications function and reports to the Communication Manager Enabling functions, Inter IKEA Group.

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.

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