Samsung – Sustainability Manager Nordic

Are you a confident and independent doer with a strong interest in sustainability and corporate affairs? Do you thrive in a high-pace environment and want the opportunity to grow and make your mark in a leading international company? Then you might be the one we’re looking for!

Everything we do at Samsung is driven by an unyielding passion for excellence—and an unfaltering commitment to develop the best products and services on the market. In today’s fast-paced global economy, change is constant, and innovation is critical to a company’s survival. As we have done for 80 years, we set our sights on the future, anticipating market needs and demands so we can steer our company toward long-term success. As Nordic Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Manager, you will have an integral part in ensuring we stay on top of the market and continue to enrich and simplify the consumers’ lives.

Help Us Create What Can’t Be Done!

Samsung is a dynamic company in a fast-moving industry, where you’re offered many opportunities to grow and develop!

About the role

As Nordic Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Manager, you will have an integral part in ensuring that Samsung stays on top of the market and continue to enrich and simplify the consumers’ lives. You will lead Samsung’s Corporate Affairs and Sustainability team of three Sustainability and Public Affairs-Officers, and report to the General Counsel and Director for Legal, Compliance & Corporate affairs.

Your mission will be to ensure and aim to go beyond legal compliance with Samsung’s products and business practices, to reduce their climate footprint continually and proactively, and to communicate to consumers and stakeholders about the sustainability performance of their products.

You will be working from Samsung’s Kista office, across all divisions in Samsung Nordics and have close collaborations with colleagues in headquarters. Hybrid working.

The main tasks will be:

• Internal and external advocacy of all sustainability and public affairs matters for the Nordics.

• Supporting Samsung Nordic Sales teams with questions and projects in your area, and participate in customer dialogue around sustainability.

• Develop and secure relevant messaging in close collaboration with the Corporate Marketing team to position the brand.

• Secure monitoring, risk sensing and reputation management in your area of responsibility.

• Represent Samsung and building relationship with appropriate Nordic authorities, industry organizations and NGO´s.

• Promote and implement proper sustainability and public affairs strategies and policies locally in line with Europe and Global initiatives and programs.

• Ensure compliance with current and future legislation and regulation and secure reporting of in your area of responsibility (e.g. relevant fees and reporting requirements for sustainability)

• Drive Public Affairs initiatives and secure internal information sharing.

To be successful in this role, you have:

• Relevant academic qualification and a solid commercial and sustainability knowledge.

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role.

• Understanding of government affairs and public institutions in the Nordics.

• Proven track record of leading successful projects in a global company and are an analytical and confident leader.

• Excellent communication skills in Swedish as well as English.

In addition

At Samsung you will get the great opportunity to have a huge impact and to be creative in ways of working, and we except you to appreciate tempo, change and to take own initiatives. We see it as a merit if you have knowledge from the electronic industry (or similar) and think that the right person is curious to see the opportunity in fast and sometimes unexpected changes

How to apply:

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