Business Controller to H&M Assortment

  • Full-time

Company Description

Welcome to H&M! A workplace where you can be yourself & so much more! As a Business Controller you’ll master the basics of controlling and analysis- and most importantly – optimizing sustainable sales growth.  

We want to make it possible for everyone to look, feel and do good. 
We take pride in our history of making fashion accessible to everyone and our ambition for tomorrow is to make fashion even more sustainable, inclusive, and welcoming.

Why work at H&M? 
H&M is a workplace where you’ll join a global fashion family that combines teamwork with individual expression and gives you the challenges and opportunities that can help you learn, grow and succeed. 

We believe that it’s when you mix and match different talents, experiences, and styles that the real magic happens. That’s why our teams are built with different personalities, talents, and people from all kinds of backgrounds. If you are willing to learn, grow and help our customers and your colleagues, H&M will always be a place for you to both express your individuality and feel like you belong. 

We also believe that you can’t change the world without great people on your side. So, we offer all our employee’s generous benefits, lots of learning opportunities and the possibility to start building a more long-term career. Bring your whole personality to work, stay as long as you want, and grow more than you ever thought was possible. Be yourself & more at H&M. ​​​​​​​

Job Description

In the Business Controller role, you will generate sustainable sales growth and profitability for your area of responsibility on short- and long term through commercial analysis, action and leadership.

You will be responsible for the analysis in your team and you will take business-minded decisions and implement actions based on your analysis. Together with your team you will be responsible for our global assortment and maximizing sales and profit within your business area.

H&M Assortment is where we design and develop our fashion collections for a wide variety of customers all over the world. At Assortment you will be a part of a mixed team consisting of  designers, pattern makers, product developers and planners, all working together to create the best customer offer while at the same time influencing H&M on a global scale.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

  • Optimize sustainable sales growth and profitability with the right quantity, the right timing, at the right place and at the best price
  • Participate in defining vision, strategy, goals and timeline together with the team leader
  • Supporting the team with buying follow-up
  • Performing ongoing sales analysis and identify future potential and risk
  • Short- and long-term actions constantly optimizing the assortment and planning going forward
  • Take responsibility for the controlling within your area of responsibility and secure the balance between top-down vs. bottom-up perspective

Qualifications

As a Business Controller you have a curious mindset and are constantly looking for possibilities to develop new and more efficient ways of working. You enjoy working strategically with developing our business as well as working hands on analyzing numbers.
To be successful in this role we see that you have: 

  • Have a degree in business, engineering or equivalent area
  • Have strong analytical skills and the ability to turn your analysis into actions
  • Have leadership ability and a strategic mindset
  • Salesmanship and the ability to understand what our customers want
  • Experience within e-commerce is meriterious 
  • Great communication skills
  • Fluent in English, both written and verbally

As a person we believe that you are a communicative and engaging team player with a genuine passion for growing businesses and creating results. You have a self-going personality with a strong sense of responsibility and drive. You like to take on challenges and thrives in an entrepreneurial setting and constantly changing environment.

Additional Information

This is a fulltime assignment based at our Head Office in Stockholm, Sweden, and you will report to Division Controller or Regional Controller.

If your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your CV in English as soon as possible but latest March 27th. 

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. This is why we kindly ask you to not attach Cover Letter in your application as this could cause unintentional subjective assessment. Thank you!

H&M Group is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.

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