Head of Supply Planning Center of Excellence

Company Description

At H&M we believe it’s possible for you to find what you love. We offer you space to create and room to grow — a place where you can belong and truly be yourself. You’ll join a team that is full of life in a company that feels as good as it looks. At H&M, we believe it’s possible because together we make it possible.

As one of the world’s largest fashion retailers, we want to be the place of possible and the place to be. Alongside our customer first mindset, every H&M employee is given opportunities for professional and personal growth. You are empowered, trusted and challenged to explore your own path and write your own story. We believe in giving people responsibility early on and a strong sense of ownership.

Do you thrive in a complex and ever-changing business environment? Are you truly passionate about our customer experience and want to have an impact on our Supply Chain development and capabilities?

To speed up our work on developing an even more integrated and demand-driven supply chain we have established a new unit within the Supply Chain function, named Supply Chain Strategy & Design.  We are working on creating a strong vision, strategy, and plan for how to further strengthen and improve our end-to-end supply chain together with colleagues from our brands, regions, and group functions.

The organization consists of four departments: Supply Chain Network & Flow Strategy, Supply Chain Integration Strategy and Supply Planning Centre of Excellence. We are in a strong build-up phase.

We are now looking for someone to establish our new Supply Planning Center of Excellence.

Job Description

  • Set strategy and targets for developing our supply planning processes, activities and milestones across all stakeholders
  • Identify, develop and set global supply planning standards for processes, methods and logics
  • Coach and train Global Supply Planning teams in brands to ensure common level of capabilities and knowledge on standards and procedures
  • Monitor and analyze supply planning quality and initiate actions as needed
  • Support functional design for Supply Planning system solutions in collaboration with our Business Tech function
  • Act as an informal leader cross over the organization in order to set and implement best practice according to the set strategy

Qualifications

  • + 5-10 years of extended experience in the field of Supply Planning on a strategic level 
  • Experience from developing strategy, setting targets as well as standards, processes and methods for a global supply planning process
  • Experience from leading a Supply planning team and/or experience from leading Supply planning change programs
  • Experience from Fashion retail is not mandatory but experience from a consumer goods industry is preferred
  • Experience from working cross functionally in a large context with many stakeholders
  • A genuine interest and passion for developing our end to end Supply Chain
  • Strong analytical skills to analyze and explain complex processes and structures
  • Strong capabilities in communications, stakeholder management and change management
  • Curiosity, ability to act prestige-less and always strive to find the best way forward
  • Have a customer focused and commercial mindset in all planning and decision making
  • A truly collaborative approach and are a strong team player

Additional Information

We offer a working culture full of passion and ambition for developing a great fast, flexible and dynamic Supply Chain. You will be an important part in the team driving one of our identified key objectives for the future!

This is a full-time permanent position. You will be reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Strategy & Design on H&M Group. The role is based in Stockholm.

Please apply with your cv in English, no need for cover letter by latest: 30th of September.  For questions regarding the role please reach out to [email protected]

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

 

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