Team Responsible Operational Purchasing

Company Description

At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET, Afound, Treadler and Itsapark — offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries.

But design is so much more than just products; it’s about clever design processes, efficient product flows, creating experiences that enrich, and smart solutions that benefit all our customers.

Sustainability is always at the core of our business. Not only because we like to do what’s right — but it’s also beneficial for our business. We will continue to push for change and lead the way towards a more inclusive and sustainable fashion future.

Do you want to join us? We will trust you with great responsibility right from the start, reward a passionate mindset and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit. When you start a career with H&M Group, there’s no limit to where it can take you.

Job Description

We are now looking for an ambitious and collaborative Team Responsible to be leading our Non-Commercial Goods Operational Purchase Marketing & Campaign Product team.

The H&M Group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. We are a growth company with high ambitions to grow our company in new and creative ways. The teams at Expansion are in partnership with our brands, markets, and functions, creating memorable customer experiences across the globe. Each year we add stores and digital channels to new and existing markets and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, and consolidations. We are a global network of over 1000 colleagues spread across 75 countries. We are a diverse team of high performing and ambitious people, and we continuously learn, develop and grow together to reach our common goals. 

The Group NCG Development and Procurement function is here to support our H&M brands with Development and Procurement capabilities within Non-Commercial Goods. We develop our brands concepts from a design, quality, sustainability, and cost perspective aligned with brand DNA.

The Operational Purchase Marketing & Campaign Product team have the responsibility to coordinate, order and follow-up deliveries of all window and instore material to support the H&M Group brand´s commercial activities in our physical stores, contributing to our customer experience and driving traffic into the stores. Responsibilities also include ordering all consumer packaging for both store and online across the business. In this role you will be reporting to the Head of NCG Supply Chain and be a part of that leadership team. You will be responsible for leading and managing your team, ensuring that they have the right resources and competences as well as setting and following up on goals and targets for the team. You will be responsible for developing ways of working and processes to adapt in a changing environment and be responsible for ensuring that we deliver on the “order to delivery” process in an efficient way and that we are enabling the best total cost of ownership as well as other demands and challenges connected to our business.

As Team Responsible you will work closely with your key stakeholders and together with the team, be responsible for setting plans to enable the execution of all projects related to our commercial plan at product level.

Your main responsibilities include: 

  • Lead, coach and develop your team.
  • Secure right team set-up and competence.
  • Responsibility for your business area including setting goals, priorities, follow-up on KPI: s and ensuring deliveries.
  • Support related functions and countries within the area of window and instore material by suggesting the best method from an order to delivery perspective.
  • Developing ways of working and fostering a learning organization and mindset in the team.
  • Identify opportunities to drive continuous improvements within the area with a clear ownership and purpose driven agenda.
  • Play a key role in setting up processes contributing to relevant purchase and supply chain strategies, securing that we deliver on the demands from the business.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure collaboration and efficient ways of working.

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, we believe you also have:

  • Academic degree within business economics or similar and with several years' working experience or relevant work experience in a similar area.
  • Experience from formal or informal leadership.
  • A background within supply chain, operational purchasing leading roles and/or project managemen.t
  • A proven record of accomplishment of developing efficient ways of working to reduce waste in the supply chain.
  • A natural ability to see the bigger picture, implementing strategies and guiding others.
  • Structured and are good at prioritizing and setting activities to secure business results.
  • Good understanding of the end customer and retail in general.
  • Thrive in a fast-moving and complex organization and have a proven record of accomplishment of creating clarity and structure in an ever-changing environment.
  • Structured and good logical and analytical skills .

Who are you?

You are an experienced leader that can organize and inspire your team as well as building and developing both people and ways of working. You have an ability to lead in change and bring structure as well as having great networking skills to collaborate with various stakeholders to develop and secure a mutual output. Ways of working and process development are a natural part of your mindset and a way to ensure efficiency and progress in the day-to-day work. You like to take initiatives and ownership, can adapt to changing conditions and navigate in a complex environment. You have a goal-oriented mindset and are constantly working with developing the business to add further value in your field of expertise for the company. We believe that you are: straight forward, open-minded, structured, communicative and an ambitious team player full of drive and a positive attitude.

Additional Information

This is a full-time permanent contract placed in Stockholm.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your resume in English (no need for cover letter) latest 8th December.

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

Our teams at H&M Group should consist of great mix of people with different perspectives that share and combine their knowledge, experiences, and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.

We look forward to hear from you!

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