Product Pictures Project Leader

The Product Picture Business Area at IKEA Communications create, produce and deliver product communication. We yearly produce 30 000 high quality product pictures from 3D or photo, and product films in order to enhance the customer experience and tell the story about our products. All of the communication contributes to the IKEA customer understanding of IKEA products.

As Project Leader you are leading the production team (consisting of Art Directors, Image Producers, Product Pictures Coordinators, Interior Designers, Photographers, 3D Artists and Retouch Artists) monitoring and developing processes in order to reach business goals.

In the role you will:
•Lead a diverse team assigned for producing product pictures.
•Create pre-requisites for producing large volumes at low cost with short delivery time and high quality.
•Follow up processes, defining work processes, roles and KPI’s connected and work with process development and change management in order to reach business goals.
•Work closely together with ICOM Image Production and/or other production companies in order to secure deliveries, reach business and development goals.
•Be responsible for the business aspects of the production projects; create and agree on quotations, de-brief, identify deviations and secure delivery within agreed budget frames.
•Lead and secure that the production is carried out according to agreed working processes and time plans, and ensure that these are communicated to and understood by relevant stakeholders as well as the production team.
•Identify consequences of deviations from agreed project plan with regards to quality, time and cost, communicate consequences with relevant stake holders and secure decisions needed to move forward.
•Responsible for agreements and collaboration with our assignors, defining projects and deliverables.

To be successful in this role, you must:
•Bachelor degree in Communication Marketing or equivalent work experience.
•3-5 years of professional experience.
•Excellent people skills and ability to create confidence and build relations.
•Experience as main responsible Project Leader for several campaigns and/or projects that have been proven successful.
•Proven experience in managing client/stakeholder relations.
•Proven record of consistently meeting agreed deadlines and goals.
•Planning and budget management.
•Experience of process development.

Can you really reach out to the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of nowhere? In Älmhult you can. Älmhult, Sweden is home to IKEA Communications AB, aka ICOM. ICOM produces IKEA.com, which is visited around 1.6 billion times a year. We're also behind the IKEA catalogue with a yearly circulation of around 220 million copies. On top of that, we churn out a ton of content for social media, not to mention motion media and 3D work so cutting edge that it makes the folks in California sit up and take notice. So what happens in Älmhult definitely doesn't stay in Älmhult. It reaches practically every corner of the globe.

Right now we're looking for a Project leader. Someone who’s passionate about production of global communication, who navigates in the digital possibilities always on the outlook for the solution that fits the message and the frames that fits the solution. That someone with the talent of togetherness

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.

Älmhult has good commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund, Växjö and IKEA shuttle bus to Helsingborg back and forth several times per day.