Hygiene and health company Essity announced that Jessica Alm will join Essity’s Executive Management Team in the role of chief communication officer.

Alm will join Essity from the industrial company Sandvik, where she has served in various roles over the past 17 years, the past 10 of which as head of Group Communications and as a member of Group Executive Management. She has broad experience of working with brand development, strategic communication and sustainability.

Alm will succeed Joséphine Edwall Björklund who after 10 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.

“I am delighted to welcome Jessica 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,” says Groth.