Business Expert Competence Lead - Inventory Optimization

Company Description

About Business Tech
The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Technology development in combination of new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry. In order to cater for the individual needs of customers, Business Tech delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. 

Job Description

About inventory optimization
Inventory optimization is a part of the Customer Fulfillment Domain and the Domain responsibility covers solutions and improvements from allocation, through stock optimization and fulfillment of orders to customers, stores and partners. Inventory Optimization currently has 12 products and our mission is to make all our inventory available to our customers in the most profitable and sustainable way possible. 

The Competence Lead Role and being a Business Expert
The Competence Lead role has a dual focus – staff responsibility and being part of the Product Areas’ daily work. As a Competence Lead, you will have staff responsibility for employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own. Your staff responsibility covers different Product Teams and tasks include building a team of business experts, development conversations, salary review and to support your team members growth.

You will work closely with the product owners within the product area, as well as other competence leads, software engineers, business experts and data analysts. You will collaborate with stakeholders in other product areas and enabling functions, as well as sales, store operations and logistics. You will be able to try out your creative and innovative ideas – and have a large impact on how we shape the future of fashion logistics.

As a Business Expert, you will most likely work with some of the following tasks:

  • Act as a subject matter expert
  • External business/industry surveillance
  • Close cooperation with business - set and maintain contact with stakeholders
  • Drive business development - find business opportunities with customer in focus
  • Alignment regarding business solutions with other BE in other product areas/product teams
  • Support Product owner setting roadmap
  • Support Product owner setting scope
  • Handover info to operations and global training responsible
  • Work close to Global Superusers
  • Effect goal follow up with business operations

Qualifications

The experience we would love to see:
We are looking for someone who has demonstrated potential for the leadership we aspire for within Business Tech. Previous experience from leadership and staff responsibility is of merit, but not required.

You are an important team member in this transformation - we believe you are communicative, flexible, and able to work in an environment that is not yet fully formalized. You have previous experience from working in large companies with many stakeholders, you have worked with distributed teams, and you know how to translate business requirements and visualize technical roadmaps. We also believe that you:

  • Have the ability to manage complexity when there are no given answers
  • Are a true doer, willing to get hands-on, solving any problems needed to help the product area colleagues move forward
  • Experience of leading team members
  • Agile mindset and willing to find new ways to deliver on your goals in case you get stuck
  • Have good knowledge, both written and oral, in English

Additional Information

If this sounds exciting to you, come join the journey and build the future with us!
This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV as soon as possible. We are looking forward to your application!

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