Deputy Photo and Retouch Manager, IKEA Communications AB, Älmhult

Lead and manage the co-workers and freelancers and ensure that all resources are allocated in the best way to secure efficiency and a high quality output.
•Secure excellent collaboration and good relations with internal and external stakeholders.
•Secure continuous development and innovation of optimal processes, production methods and tools.
•Responsible for developing an up-to-date international network of excellent image competence and sourcing of external resources.
•Challenge the current ways of working and secure knowledge within the function about future trends and the development in the industry.
•Participate and contribute in facilitating competence exchange and cross-functional collaboration within and outside IKEA.
•Recruit, develop and secure succession of co-workers within the competence/business area.
•Create pre-conditions for a trustful and secure learning environment that supports the continuous development of co-workers.
•Secure a healthy and well balanced working environment that enables co-worker engagement, team spirit and togetherness.
•Demonstrate leadership by example in ways that express the IKEA values within and outside IKEA operations.
•Be a change driver for developing the ICOM Business & people agenda together by identifying and sharing with the organization possible future competence or business needs.

•Bachelor degree or equivalent knowledge acquired elsewhere
•Extensive knowledge within image composition (color, form, function, design, cropping, lighting).
•Experience of managing, leading and developing a team of creative people.
•High level of visual communication knowledge.
•Extended, international network within image production.

•Good people skills and ability to create confidence and build relations.
•Ability to simplify complicated issues and always striving to improve efficiency.
•Ability to translate technical opportunities into business possibilities.
•Ability to challenge and develop different ways of working.
•Strong communication skills, fluent in English.

The mission of IKEA Communication (ICOM) is to create and produce excellent communication that positions IKEA as a strong, unique and meaningful brand. We contribute to IKEA with global consumer centric and content driven communication. We strive for an agile way of working in an everlasting journey of developing the business. At ICOM we believe that our workplaces should be about people. They should be sustainable and reflect our values and needs, both in the physical and the virtual working environment. We believe that we perform, innovate, collaborate and meet our business goals in the best way when we are able to choose where, when and how we work.