Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
External Communications Manager for Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries, with approximately 17,000 employees and 66 billion SEK in annual sales. I am a driven B2B marketing and communications professional with more than 20 years of experience as a writer, editor and editorial project leader. A native English speaker and American expat with an accomplished background in journalism, corporate communications and content marketing, my experience includes agency and in-house work for global companies within the mining, telecommunications, medical device and defense industries.
Responsible for developing, coordinating and supporting all company external communications initiatives, including managing trade press and trade media relations and social media. Key responsibilities: • Provide strategic and operational external communications advice to Divisions and Sales Areas in a global, decentralized organization • Manage, write and edit articles, scripts, news updates, collateral materials, speeches and other varied communications for both online and offline media outlets • Create and distribute press releases, Q&As and other trade media material • Ensure, monitor, evaluate and measure coverage in global media • Perform as spokesperson to media as suitable • Support with corporate reputation management and crisis communications planning
• Responsible for ensuring premium quality content across a range of online and offline marketing channels and safeguarding consistent messaging according to the communication concept • Project leader and head of editorial board for global customer magazine Solid Ground, published twice a year in eight languages • Planning, development and publishing of customer testimonials and other longform editorial content on storytelling portal solidground.sandvik • Project leader for twice-a-month LinkedIn Live thought leadership sessions • Managing network of freelancers and overseeing written and visual content production
• Planned, produced and published editorial content packages on storytelling portal solidground.sandvik • Planned, developed and delivered twice-a-year global customer magazine Solid Ground • Created and distributed press releases and other editorial content and ensured coverage in global trade media
• Planned, edited and produced editorial content for customer and employee magazines, websites, films and mobile apps for Sandvik Mining and other global clients
• Wrote internal and external articles for telecoms giant Ericsson, ensuring adherence to company-specific styles and formats