Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of our external strategic narrative and engagement plan, from concept to delivery.
• Strengthen Verisure’s reputation as a trusted, innovative leader in home security.
• Design and implement impactful PR strategies, media relations programs, and storytelling campaigns that elevate our brand.
• Enhance Verisure’s positioning as a high performing public company across the Nordic markets.
• Oversee media relations, driving proactive storytelling and managing responsive issue handling through strong journalist relationships.
• Lead and coordinate reputational issue management and crisis communications with local markets and Group teams.
• Serve as a company spokesperson, representing Verisure in the media and shaping public discourse on home and small business security.
• With your team, produce high-quality, multiformat content—press releases, blog posts, videos, social media material, and executive speeches—that brings Verisure’s priorities and narrative to life.
• Measure your impact regularly through a variety of KPI’s to ensure the work that is done is creating the right impact.
• Build and elevate Verisure’s external visibility across the Nordic markets.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading corporate and external communications at scale within global, fast‑paced B2C environments (retail, telco, FMCG, subscription‑based services), generally gained over ~20 years, with substantial experience working across international/multicultural, and remote team structures.
• Strategic communications leader with the ability to design and execute external strategies that elevate both commercial performance and broader industry positioning — shaping the company’s role not only as a market leader, but also as a credible regional and sector voice.
• Strong media relations and spokesperson capability, experienced in shaping narratives, securing high‑impact coverage, and maintaining trusted relationships with key Nordic journalists. Confident in handling interviews, press inquiries, statements, and high‑visibility moments with credibility and sound judgment.
• Exceptional communicator and storyteller, producing high‑quality content across formats — including press releases, op‑eds, speeches, statements, and social media — to strengthen public perception and reinforce strategic priorities.
• Senior stakeholder influencer, able to advise, challenge, and partner with senior leaders through clear communication, business acumen, and a collaborative, credible presence.
• Experienced project leader with strong planning and structural discipline — able to take initiatives from concept to execution, building coherent, end to end plans (scoping, strategy, KPIs, delivery) and driving multi market, cross functional work with clarity and pace.
• Agency‑savvy operator, with strong judgment on what to outsource versus manage in‑house to maximise quality, efficiency, and impact.
• Familiar with crisis‑communications processes and escalation routines, with the ability to quickly deepen expertise and operate effectively in fast‑moving situations.
• Exposure to internal communications and the ability to ramp up quickly, using strong comms instincts and stakeholder influence to create clarity and engagement across the organisation.
• Modern communications mindset, comfortable operating across digital channels and reputation dynamics, with the agility to quickly expand expertise where needed.

Preferred

• Additional Nordic languages are a strong asset.