Welcome to H&M! A workplace where you can be yourself & so much more!

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 employees 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.

Do you want to be a key player in creating a new and disruptive global beauty brand at H&M BEAUTY?

Within the newly created Business Unit H&M Lifestyle Brands, we apply the strong heritage of H&M to new industries, to add excitement and energy to our offer and strengthening the H&M brand. H&M Lifestyle Brands includes H&M HOME, H&M BEAUTY and H&M SPORT. 

At H&M BEAUTY, progress is our creed and passion is what drives us. We will throw the beauty parties no one wants to miss, be featured in beauty bags worldwide — and be that favorite lipstick on your bathroom shelf.

Through our knowledge, experience and pure passion for what we do, we aim to deliver excellence to our customers — and we want to get even better at it. We believe that different perspectives are an asset in every team, and that's why we're looking for new mindsets and norm-challenging viewpoints to join us. Our enthusiasm for all things beauty is what makes the success of our team — join our H&M beauty journey, we want you on board!

As a Chemist for H&M Beauty, you are a crucial part of developing new products where you support as a technical cosmetic advisor in both cross-functional projects and to individual ideas, drive and perform risk assessments and drive product certification processes to secure that we get the right product for the customer.

You support formulation by advising teams on viable claims and take part in discussing functional aspects for new products. You review and evaluate supplier submissions as well as support copywriters with product attributes to communicate to the consumer and product information management.

On top of this you are a part of reviewing existing products in market, benchmark products and participate in other external forums to enhance product development skills. Your networking skills enables you to easily collaborate with our production offices and together with relevant departments, set good standards and workable test methods.

Your Responsibilities  

• Support Brand Manager in product development process with presenting relevant trends, market findings and risk assessments connected to requested claims, ingrediencies and formula for the assortment
• In coordination with Brand Manager responsible to fill in “Product brief template” when it comes to formula, claims and ingredients
• Coordinate with Chemists at our Production offices, Group Compliance department and suppliers through the product development process to secure viable claims
• Develop and fill in “Product Fact Sheet” to make sure marketing department has appropriate customer communication
• Constantly develop Chemist role and ensure efficient way of work tighter with all stakeholders

We believe that you as a person are self-motivated and have a proactive approach. You are ambitious, flexible and you truly humble team player. You have a global, curious mindset and are at the same time organized with good attention to detail. You thrive in an entrepreneurial setting where you together with the team are constantly looking for possibilities to develop new ways of working.

In addition to matching the personal profile we also seek the following qualifications:

• Professional education in Chemistry
• Experience in new product development in the cosmetics industry, ideally with time spent in a laboratory environment.
• Knowledge of understanding formulation
• Knowledge of product performance and claim and their substantiation
• Knowledge of global beauty and industry trends
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

This is a full-time assignment, based in Stockholm and you will report to Section Head Private Label.

If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application in English, including CV latest the 12 November 2021.

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. We kindly ask you to not attach cover letter in your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.

We look forward to hearing from you!

H&M 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.

Be Yourself & More at H&M!