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Sweden's Essity names Jessica Alm as chief communication officer

23 Feb '23

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Jessica Alm. Pic: Essity

Sweden’s hygiene and health company, Essity, has unveiled that Jessica Alm will join the executive management team in the role of chief communication officer. Alm will join from the industrial company, Sandvik, where she has served in various roles, the past ten of which as head of group communications and as a member of group executive management.

Alm has broad experience of working with brand development, strategic communication and sustainability. She will succeed Joséphine Edwall Björklund who after ten years in the position, as previously announced, has taken on a new position as senior advisor at Essity and has left the executive management team. Alm will assume her position at Essity no later than August 2023 and will report to Magnus Groth, president and CEO of Essity, the company said in a media statement.

“I am delighted to welcome Alm to Essity. With her solid expertise and experience, Jessica is the right person to lead and further develop the group’s external and internal communication,” Groth said.

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