Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone.
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people – and we’re always searching for new and better ways to do it. We use our home furnishing knowledge to create products and solutions that will enable more people to live the life they want. Through creativity, IKEA Marketing & Communication (IMC) connects the heart of IKEA to the hearts and minds of the many people.
We are based in Älmhult, Sweden – the heart of IKEA. From here, we create, produce and deliver inspiring content that helps our retail markets grow and strengthens IKEA as a purpose-led brand and expert in life at home. We are proud of our craftsmanship and believe it should always go hand in hand with technology. As marketing and communication continue to evolve, we are simplifying the way we work, speeding up development and continuously improving how we create, produce and distribute high quality content at scale.
In this role you will belong to Creative, reporting to the Creative Manager.
Our team is based in Älmhult. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.
Your next role
As a Copywriting Manager at IMC, you’ll play an important part in the team and bring valuable IKEA knowledge into a new setting. In the coming years, we will be gearing up for a more connected, digital and future-focused communication landscape, where creativity, business impact and new technologies — including AI — will shape how we meet the many people.
Your primary focus will be to lead and develop copywriting competence, secure strong and consistent IKEA communication and IKEA tone of voice across touchpoints, and enable high-quality creative delivery through collaboration, coaching and smart ways of working. You’ll report to the Creative Manager.
On a typical working day, you will:
What we’d like you to bring to the table
The role as a Copywriting Manager requires you to:
We welcome your application
We look forward to receiving your application by 7th of July at the latest. Apply by submitting your CV. Please note that we do not ask for a cover letter in this recruitment process. Instead, you will have the opportunity to tell us more about you and your experience through the screening questions in the application system.
Due to vacation, selection for interviews will be done in the beginning of August why you will not hear anything from us before.
If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, or if you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, feel free to contact the Recruiter Jonas Levin at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com before the last date to apply. Due to vacations we will not be able to respond to questions after this date.
We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group where provided competence requirement for the role are met. But we do welcome external candidates to apply.
ONE BRAND, MANY COMPANIES AND MANY, MANY PEOPLE
We’re a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”.
How we realise this vision is based on our shared humanistic values. These values are the foundation of our work and our inclusive, open and honest culture where you can be yourself. Our culture is based on the spirit of togetherness, enthusiasm and fun. And we’re always looking for people who share our positive attitude and values.
IKEA unites thousands of co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners, all over the world, organised in a franchise system. It’s one brand but it reaches millions of hearts and homes.
ABOUT INTER IKEA GROUP
The purpose of Inter IKEA Group is to secure continuous improvement, development, expansion and a long life of the IKEA Concept. It has three core businesses: Franchise, Range & Supply and Industry.
• Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is the owner of the IKEA Concept and the worldwide IKEA franchisor. The assignment is to continuously develop the IKEA Concept and to ensure its successful implementation in existing and new markets. 11 different groups of companies own and operate IKEA sales channels under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. A large group of franchisees are owned & operated by INGKA Group. Inter IKEA Systems B.V. also assigns different IKEA companies to develop range, supply and communication.
• IKEA Range & Supply is responsible for developing and supplying the global IKEA range. This means working with the whole value chain: from the needs and wants of the many people, through product development and the sourcing of raw materials, to a product’s end-of-life.
• IKEA Industry is the largest producer of wooden furniture in the world and manufactures wood-based furniture for the IKEA product range. We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
