WU Sustainability Communication at Grundfos

• As our WU Sustainability Communication Manager, you will collaborate closely with WU communication and marketing to drive our thought leadership ambition on sustainability, particularly climate and water access.
• The objective is to position Grundfos SafeWater and WU sustainability as a thought leader in the water sector and describe our impact, supporting our ambitious goals; to reach net-zero emission in 2050 and 300 million people with water access by 2030.

Your main responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain global, regional, and local marketing and communication strategy, plans and execution that will position Grundfos on the world stage as a driver of change and new thinking on water access and sustainability in municipal and ground water extraction.
• Responsibility for platforms and channels, including Grundfos.com ( Water Access | Grundfos ), external newsletters ( SafeWater News Sign-up | Grundfos ) social media (Grundfos global and regional linkedin and facebook, example here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grundfos_clean-water-for-thousands-in-togo-activity-7119940979582717953-JCud?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) and internal positioning of SafeWater on Yammer, Insite etc.
• Develop the Water Access movement.
  • To deliver on our 300M ambition, develop the strategy to create and drive a movement of water access stakeholders to increase the focus on this important area, and highlight the urgency of the need to execute.
  • Develop products that demonstrate the successes in the sector that are game changers for water access, as well as discuss/ share the challenges and lessons learned.
  • Collaboration with SafeWater customers to develop shared communication and case stories for both marketing and external communication purposes, including Grundfos global and regional social media). This includes detailed story planning, traveling to record and finalise stories.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder marketing and communication network and close relationships internally and externally, enabling the above as efficiently as possible.

Along with this you may also support ad hoc communication assignments, Including:

• Deep customer insights to lead development of value-based communication and marketing material, develop specific material and optimize usage of stories across platforms and in synergies.
• Develop customer relationships to drive joint communication and marketing efforts, usually as case studies, developed with partners.
• Concretely, this includes quarterly external newsletter, 6-8 video case stories annually, developing supporting water access specific materials, such as handbooks.

Your background:

Most likely, you may have a bachelor’s or master’s degree within Marketing, Communication or similar with a good experience as a communication professional ideal within a global matrix organization. You can move from vision to strategy and are a detailed planner that will get things done independently as necessary.

• Persuasive, a good communicator and networker with the ability to understand and connect with a wide variety of people, from CEOs to technical specialists and people in villages fetching water.
• Keen eye for strong visual and graphics.
• Able to independently record quality video on phone, traveling to e.g. Sub-Saharan countries to develop cases with customers and guide and guide production of the final product.
• Able to travel between 15-25% of the year.
• Able to independently write SoMe pieces and articles.
• Fluency in English, French would be desirable.