Press & Media Relations Manager - Volvo Car Sweden i Göteborg

Want to join us on our exciting journey?

Volvo Cars is on an exciting journey, redefining the automotive experience by innovating to make people’s lives less complicated. We offer you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make an impact in a company with unique opportunities to grow and make a true difference.

What we offer

We have a new function at Volvo Car Sweden – Consumer Experience - to lead and coordinate all efforts to deliver great customer experiences in line with our brand promise. The purpose is to accelerate and put focus on building direct consumer relations and delivering on a seamless omnichannel experience that make consumers fall and stay in love with Volvo Cars. 

In the home turf, Volvo is of course a well-known car brand with a brand awareness of 98%, and the number 1 position as the most selling car brand in the market since  more than 60 years back. As a successful company we’re constantly in the spot-light with high expectations and demands where we always aim to deliver highest quality and top-class consumer experience.

Volvo Car Sweden is now seeking a Media Relations Manager (Presschef) to the Brand & Communications team with the mission to maintain and strengthen Volvo Cars’ position among Swedish consumers.

As the Media Relations Manager you will lead the strategic PR work as a vital part of our commercial transformation where we see the importance having all communication flavored by the vision of getting our customers to fall and stay in love with Volvo Cars.

 
What you will do
As Media Relations Manager/ Presschef you drive the global PR plan and messaging on a national level where you create and steer a local PR plan linked to the strategic agenda of Volvo Car Sweden.  It’s within your role to nurture media relations and build trust-based relationships with key journalists. Volvo Cars is a vibrant brand with a lot of exiting things coming up constantly, meaning you will write press releases as well as adapt global releases – including creating strategic statements and Q&A’s. You will be the primary spokes person for Volvo Car Sweden which includes potential crisis communication. 
A close collaboration with all our teams such as, Social media and Marketing is important as well as your support in Management communication and media training.  

You and your skills

• A creative and highly experienced media relations professional with a good working knowledge and a high interest of the ongoing transformation within Automotive.
• Commercial understanding and Consumer Centric mindset.
• An understanding of journalists’ ways of working.
• An ideas generator, able to conceive of and pitch news stories to media and push ideas through to publication.
• Ability to spot and exploit communications opportunities within Automotive business. 
• Excellent skills in both Swedish and English (verbally and written).

 And on a personal level   
We see you as a social and outgoing person, able to build good working relations with professional journalists as well as within the organization. You have the ability to work quickly and independently but is still a team player. You have a nose for news where you’re able to see an angle that might interest a journalist and you are a passionate writer processing the instinctive understanding of how to present information in the right order and in a manner that is likely to appeal to reporters and editors. At the same time you have a lively curiosity about news and current affairs across the automotive industry and the development of the Swedish market.

How to learn more and apply
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter; Pedram Yousefi, pedram.yousefi@volvocars.com.
Kindly register your application as soon as possible but not later than 2021-08-31.
Please note due to GDPR, application through E-mail is not accepted.
 

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.