LWO - Public Affairs Manager
IkeaShanghaiUpdate time: June 24,2019
Job Description
LWO - Public Affairs Manager
- Shanghai (Xuhui)
- Full Time Temporary
- Marketing & Communication
- Application deadline
07 June 2019
- Candidate profile (title) WHO YOU ARE
- Candidate Profile (text) We are looking for you who are passionate about Public Affairs and to advocate on the topic of positive societal impact. You find motivation in working agile and being open to the change, as well as in leading, inspiring and influencing people - both inside and outside the company. You get energized by working both independently and interdependently with communication network and cross functions and you appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning communication trends into practice. You share and live the IKEA culture and values.
We believe that you have proven advanced training in Public Affairs with a minimum of 8-10 years of Public Affairs and/or communication experience. You have strong documented leadership and influencing skills as well as experience in leading in change, working with government and policy makers, strategic business planning and crisis communication. Your experience in external representation is extensive, and you have strong communication skills in English both spoken and written. Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and way of working is preferred.
You have knowledge in following areas:
- Knowledge of using insights to formulate Public Affairs and communication strategies to drive the IKEA business.
- Knowledge of how to leverage Public Affairs and communication to enable better business outcomes, today and tomorrow.
- Solid understanding of how to influence policy and regulation and how to lead strategic advocacy, communication and stakeholder engagement by defining, planning, executing and follow-up to relevant stakeholders and influencers (such as governments, policy makers, NGOs and UN organizations).
- Knowledge of market regulatory processes and institutions, with a well –developed external network.
- Knowledge of stakeholder mapping and understanding of stakeholder drivers within the key target audiences.
- Strong knowledge in change management and transformation techniques and tools.
- Effectively builds relationships within the organization to help achieve business outcomes.
- Knowledge of the IKEA corporate identity, core values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, to ensure right representation.
Additionally, you demonstrate strong IKEA leadership skills coaching, mentoring and uses sound judgment to make timely and effective decisions. You have strong communication, influencing, interpersonal and networking skills, with the ability to build and maintain a system of strategic and trustful connections, you are comfortable in senior business, political, policy or NGO environment. Your strategic development skills, and ability to link closely with the business reality are strong and you have the ability to communicate verbally, visually and in writing in an inspirational way with IKEA tone of voice. You hold the ability to lead change through fully integrated communication with the business goal and the key target audiences in focus as well as the ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of communication as an integrated part of the business. - Key responsibilities (title) YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key responsibilities (text) You will be the country / region lead and focal point for Public Affairs and lead, steer and implement strategy for influencing local policy and regulation - in line with IKEA values. It is your responsibility to lead, steer and support positioning of the IKEA brand and drive an open and sharing climate, being a role model of the IKEA values where our co-workers are informed, engaged and empowered.
You will:
- Responsible for leading the development and delivery of the country Public Affairs strategy and agenda, aligning with global Ingka Public Affairs plan;
- To lead, develop, coach and support the Public Affairs Leaders in the team
- Secure effective alignment of Public Affairs objectives to formulated business goals and stakeholder objectives for the market.
- Apply effective stakeholder management to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder drivers in order to manage Public Affairs effectively in the market. Feed insights into strategy development process.
- Provide passionate advocacy and leadership on the topic of strategically relevant positive societal impact across all IKEA/Ingka departments in the market, engaging not only external, but also internal stakeholders.
- Monitor relevant regulatory and non-regulatory developments in the market, feeding back learnings into the strategy development process.
- Lead and develop specific strategies for influencing market policy and regulation, impacting the IKEA market agenda. Help to create a positive policy and regulatory environment for a transforming and growing, people and planet positive IKEA business.
- Lead and contribute to the overall positioning movement in the market, integrating into communications department and contributing to relevant 360-degree campaigns.
- Responsible for bringing knowledge of the legislative and regulatory landscape to the organization.
- Secure sufficient communications and business resources and expertise to drive Public Affairs in the market.
- Act as a strategic business partner for relevant internal stakeholders, such as Digital, People & Culture,
- Property & Expansion
- Participate in global projects and forums supporting Group PA function
- Be a coach and sparring partner to Managers and leaders including the Country Manager and other members of the Country/ Region Management Team.
- Represent country/ region in appropriate external and internal forums, conferences and meetings, so that people know what we stand for.
- Team vision ( title) ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
- Team vision (text) Our team is the voice of IKEA. We use words, pictures and videos to tell the story about IKEA, to build our brand and inspire people with our offer. We bounce ideas back and forth, we challenge each other and we are crazy passionate about communication. Of course we’re also the ones who make sure to keep all our fellow co-workers informed, engaged and connected in a constantly changing business environment.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE US
From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers. At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together. Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.
WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON
- Living our values
- Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
- A passion for home furnishing
- Performing & delivering while learning & developing
- Having fun!
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