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Short contract as a production leader within EMEA region for CG animations used for marketing of large appliances.

Project leader of strategic communication concepts, communication campaigns and activities that may consist of web, film, print or editorial productions. From the first customer contact, I take care of the customer's needs, making sure that both the delivery team and the customer understand the goals, translating specifications into possibilities and defining processes and methods to deliver the solutions which can solve it! I ensure that the team can deliver the agreed solution with the required quality and to the project specification, whilst assisting the client to think of data-driven content. Redesigned production of a magazine reducing costs by 100% whilst maintaining quality.Sitrus is part of Nordic Morning, the biggest communications group in the Nordics. Altogether, we have 800 specialists working on strategy, analysis, content, service design, visibility and campaigns at the group’s 14 different companies in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Ukraine and India.

Film production leader for all parallel productions for 6 producers. We produced both B2B and B2C corporate films both for internal and external communication. My role was a high tempo role during an exciting period of rapid growth in the film offering together we increased the film offering’s annual revenue by more than by over 100% as well as I secured that the overall group profit was 35%. Supported the sales process with sales presentations, tools as well as describing and packaging our offering. I was responsible for definition of processes, suppliers, follow up of sales funnel as well as ensuring that our tools were up to date and applicable. I assisted during the creative definition phase of each project by keeping focus on the customer’s requirements including advising on how to use the final delivery in other client-owned communication channels.• Involved during first sales meeting, to determine feasibility and alternative methods of strategic solutions and defining production including price alternatives• Set scope and budget for each film production, write tender and ensure that it is signed off by the client before starting the project• Responsible for the production budgets including negotiation with suppliers. Scheduling shoots, locations and negotiating hire of crews, actors and equipment. Secure actors as required, including auditions, negotiations and contracts/release forms• Participate in pre-production meetings, set up and during productions• Arrange translations, voice over recordings, specialised post production requirements• Handle post production including approval rounds, voice over recordings, subtitling, brand adherence, translations and any additional formats deliveries that are required. • Wrap up productions: follow up on quality, project process, learnings as well as economic evaluation. Ensure that the projects and deliveries are correctly archived and that any licenses are purchased.

Project leader for a communication agency within text and web projects as well as communication strategy projects.2010 – 2013 Ericsson GFSM: Project leader for a large intranet site at Ericsson. 2009 – 2013 Ericsson and Oriflame: Project leader for editorial and web projects. Projects include: e.g. Leadership Summit 2012, Code of Conduct, CSR report 2009 (content creation and publishing), printed material, commercial documentation, PowerPoint2010 – 2011 JG Communication: Training group coordinator and administrator.2009 Ericsson BNET R&D finance: Advisor as a project Communicator. Defined processes and created an operative communication plan.2008 – 2010 Ericsson GFC: Project leader for Ericsson white papers.2008 – 2009 Ericsson IT: Project communicator and communication coordinator for implementation change projects within Ericsson (ONE program and projects: GF Finance and BUGS). 2008 Vattenfall: Project leader for Vattenfall editorial improvement. Managed meetings, provided project drive and planning. Documentation research, writing and editing.JG Communication is a digital content agency focused on developing strategic and engaging content for all channels. With several business areas it is one of the largest agencies in Sweden working with clients that span from telecommunications to healthcare.

Strategic product management role aimed at creating, introducing and releasing professional services into a product-orientated organisation. The goal was to increase Ericsson sales and market share by combining existing software products with consultancy services to achieve a customised solution as require by our customers e.g. updating existing products to suit the changing needs of the customer’s business needs.Responsible for ensuring that consultancy services were foremost in the drive towards the sales force and hence to the end-customer.Undertook an inventory of internal skills, competition and a customer-need analysis. Attended seminars and exhibitions to gather industry trend information. Achieved a ‘change of mind’ towards a service industry within the marketing and sales team. Created services which were successfully delivered to satisfied customers e.g. system alarm analysis: offering practical solutions to reduce the downtime of the system by simplifying the root cause analysis of system alarms. Communicated and liased with our customers, sales and delivery teams, also with other sales and marketing organisations within Ericsson to create a common message of “one-Ericsson”.

I marketed semiconductor products with the goal of increasing HP market share in Europe and growing revenue in Telecommunication markets.Supplied and trained the sales team on strategic focus to aid the win of key accounts. Held and attended customer visits and seminars in order to promote awareness of our product range and ensure customer focus within our company. Gathered and analysed market research data.Formulated and implemented a tactical plan for the existing product range: hence positioning products for their ”best-fit” technical solution. The communication of this strategy was achieved by providing sales tools, promotions, adverts and information to the sales channels and to our customers. New product releases included informing the sales channel of the best value propositions in a clear, concise format. Planned and developed shipment targets. Designed promotional programs on price and other activities to attract customers to contact HP. Involved in contract and pricing negotiations, in order to win key customer deals.Coordinated the European market needs for design developments with the Global and factory product management team Worked with Product Engineers to assess viability of customer special requests.

European Components.Supplied and trained the sales channel with market information. Investigated, evaluated and communicated value of new semiconductor products to sales channel. Worked with product engineers to assess viability of customer special requests. Conducted market segmentation analysis on product range. Initiated and created incentive programmes to motivate distribution sales partners to focus on HP product (created new business worth $2 million). Analysed daily business and made decisions on prices for quotations. Gained European duty exemption on components: saving HP more than $100,000/annum.Successfully implemented a new European customer sample process, adding extra value to the designer on key product lines, this involved logistical and project leadership skills.

GEC- Marconi Defence Systems Ltd. Responsibilities included all aspects of design, development and initial manufacture of a module within an electronic military system. Included electronic and mechanical design, associated documentation, component procurement and electrical test. Supervised the work of a technician.Liaised with team members from many different departments within the project. Through this role I was involved with Quality Assurance, Production, Mechanical Design Office and Planning departments.