Studio Manager

The Babyshop Group’s Photo and Copy department is located in our state of the art fulfillment center in Jönköping, Sweden. Babyshop's Studio Team handles most aspects in creating the online catalogue for all our sites, from product photography and descriptions, to quality assurance. We are focused on creating the best possible customer experience and enabling our customers to make more informed purchasing decisions through great photos and informative product descriptions. As a Studio Manager you will be responsible for managing the overall studio workflow to ensure that photos and product descriptions are delivered on time and to a great standard. This entails, among other things, operational planning based on future volumes, making sure capacity meets demand, as well ensuring photos and product descriptions are following the Groups’ styling and content guidelines. Another key focus will be motivating, mentoring, and coaching your team to achieve at the top of their abilities.

Key responsibilities 

• Planning and overseeing the flow of product and virtual assets through all stages of the studio workflow
• Regularly reporting key productivity and quality metrics to stakeholders
• Staffing/workforce planning for photo and content departments
• Providing daily supervision as well as mentoring, training, development and performance management for the production team
• Liaising with 3rd party vendors for for process such as image retouch, content writing
• Ensure that content and photo guidelines and quality standards are followed   

Major professional experiences & competencies

• Prior experience from an ecommerce and/or photo and/or copy environment is a plus
• Proven leadership experience from at least one earlier employer 
• Prior working experience in the Ecommerce industry is a plus
• Experience from working towards set targets and with KPIs 
• Professional experience in a high volume, high production operations environment
• Fluent in English and Swedish, both written and spoken

Personal characteristics

• An entrepreneurial attitude - action and goal oriented and naturally curious about testing and implementing new initiatives
• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day- to-day activities 
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to work proactively.
• You are a natural and strong leader and always strives to develop your team and reach the teams targets 
• Superior interpersonal skills,ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels, tactful, mature, flexible 
• You have a creative eye and be able to add value and insight into the e-Comm style guidelines and always be ensuring brand consistency across the site

What's in it for you? 

We are a diverse group of likeable, youthful (in age or spirit) people from all over the world that simply love what we do and have a lot of fun. At our workplace, characterized by the belief and values “Lead not follow, Own it, Simplify and One family”, you will collaborate with talented and passionate colleagues across the company. These colleagues are a blend of Digital Marketing, Graphics, Logistics & Robot Automatization, IT, Operation, Growth, Finance, Customer Service, BI, Buying (inc proprietary brands), People/Culture, Photo/Copy, Brand marketing (inc social media team). We are endeavoring real-world practitioner experience across a range of disciplines, collaborating with experts in other spaces. 

With the team continuing to grow throughout 2020, there will be further opportunities to progress and define how you would like your career to be shaped within the organization.

Are we a good match?

So, do the above resonate with your passion and ambition? Are you inspired by the thought of impacting families across the globe in a positive way? Do you want an opportunity to apply your expertise in a context where you truly contribute to our family context? If so then we’d love to hear from you. Click "Apply" to easily submit your application, and do so before 31/1-2021. We review applications continuously. 

About Babyshop Group  

The Babyshop Group is a global premium and luxury retailer of children's clothing and products to the modern family. The unique retail concept was developed in 2006 when the Swedish entrepreneurial couple Linn and Marcus Tagesson set up the business with the aim of revolutionizing fashion for children by offering an unparalleled assortment of high-quality products online. Today, the Babyshop Group is a leading player with a global footprint and +60 million website visitors annually and 1 million retail customers per year with customers across 170 countries. 

The Babyshop Group is a young and fast-growing company with an entrepreneurial spirit that is passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents under the core values Lead Not Follow, Own it, Simplify and One Family. They see themselves as a fashion retailer in tech and not only do they have a modern tech-stack, but also a fully automated 42 000 sqm warehouse in Jönköping, Sweden serving customers globally. The vision is to continue developing the group’s fashion tech platform and thus strengthening their position as the global leader within the premium and luxury segment for children’s clothing and products. 

The Group presides over an exclusive portfolio that consists of the e-commerce websites such as Babyshop.com, Lekmer.se, Alexandalexa.com, Oiidesign.se and Melijoe.com. Under this umbrella, the Group offers more than 500 prestige brands along with a number of proprietary brands like e.g. Kuling, STOY and a Happy Brand. 

The Group has 350 employees across offices in Paris, London, Stockholm, Oslo and Seoul with over 50 nationalities represented and had a total turnover exceeding 1.1 billion SEK in 2019. The company is currently owned by private and financial investors that include Linn & Marcus Tagesson, Susanna Campbell, Christina Stenbeck, Claes Dinkenspiel along with Verdane Capital.

For further information see www.babyshop.com