As a part of Omni journey which includes Merchandising and Supply Chain area, we are looking for a passionate leader who will take a position of Regional Demand & Supply Planning Manager CEU.

As Demand & Supply Planning Manager CEU your main aim is to improve relevance in our customer offer and increase profitability. You develop long-term buying strategies as well as identify selling potentials and initiate actions with buying on short-term goals. You constantly keep yourself informed regarding your Region in terms of macro-economic factors, retail situation and price positioning. You are eager to be a step ahead of competition: you visit competitors, you know the market shares on customer group and you set up strategies to create a competitive advantage for H&M. You cooperate with Business Units, Assortment Office, Regional Merchandising Team and Logistic Supply Chain.

Key responsibilities including areas such as: ​

Profitability, sustainable growth and the best customer offer​

• Defining, driving and executing commercial plan as well as buying & price strategy for the Region​
• Supporting the Merchandising team with analysis on income, buying levels and selling plans
• Initiating actions to optimize sales growth and profitability aligned with assortment needs and inventory management across channels and markets within the region​
• Coordinating and driving goal setting process within your Region​
• Keeping a clear and frequent communication with the Assortment Office & Business Units to drive and follow up your quantified goals and to optimize the assortment mix for your Region​
• Developing methods/tools and driving the buying function forward to create value for stakeholders​
• Keeping a close contact with Online to have an overview on how to optimize the buying in both channels

Being a leader​

• Strengthening teamwork, supporting and co-leading your colleagues in reaching common goals​
• Acting as the analytical engine, generating creative insights and recommending relevant actions around all processes related to seasonal planning and buying for Region​
• Developing others by sharing your knowledge and expertise​
• Driving the motivation and growth mindset within and outside of your team

Being part of our omni journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for open minded team players that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking, want to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work towards goals and go for it with everything you’ve got. Your competences such as self reflection and empathy will contribute to be successful in this role.​

Besides your personality we see that you have: ​

• experience as a Regional Merchandise Manager, Business Controller or Market Planner​
• knowledge of Assortment processes and the understanding of buying processes
• Analytically thinking and enjoy working on a strategical level​
• You achieve results and have a proven track record of exceeding expectations in your current role​
• fluency in English with strong presentation skills​
• Communication that empowers others and support you in building business relations with wide range of stakeholders as well as being influential in nature​
• an entrepreneurial approach

We invite you to listen to “Shaping the Future of Fashion with H&M Central Europe” and meet some of our team members as they introduce how we are changing the ways of working to create the best experience for our teams and customers.

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If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are a match, send us your application as soon as possible!

We are looking to have a mix of people that work in a way that optimizes our decision making, team performance and ultimately helps us reflect, respect and relate to our employees and customers. 

We are looking forward to hearing from you!