Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

Company Description

We love design, and we love technology! Even more - we love data! Our diversity makes us strong and creates an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone’s individuality is highly valued. We are looking for people who want to work in a modern organization, where agility, automation and cloud are non-negotiables.   

We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. 

The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you! 

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. H&M Group – Business Tech. 

Job Description

H&M is rapidly heading towards the digital future, and we need people with a natural proactive drive who wants to make a difference. We are on a journey to bring data and analytics to the forefront of innovation. Our vision is to lead the H&M Group to become the most insight-driven organization on Earth. We will do so by providing relevant, high-quality, and self-service, analytical products via a new data platform. We will simplify and improve our customers everyday decisions through a world class customer experience. This will be done with an agile mindset and methodology, as well as working closely with our friends across the H&M Group where we always keep the customer in focus. In the Analytics and Data Platform Product Area our motto is to engage, learn, share, inspire, and have fun.  

We are now looking for a Communications and Strategy Specialist who is passionate about supporting us in our Data Platform transition journey and can bridge the gap between business and IT. Our to-be self-service data platform will be based on a Data Mesh architecture and the role itself requires you to be passionate for people and have a high interest in technology and change management. Throughout the transformation you will engage with different people and ensure everyone feels their voice is heard and that their questions are answered. 

As an Communications and Strategy Specialist, you want to make an impact and can advocate a Dev/Sec/DataOps mind-set. You enable teams by supporting the definition of modern ways of working. We believe you have passion for agile and are smart, hungry, and humble, always striving to continuously improve, learn and believe in a learning organization. 

You are willing to work with cross-functional initiatives and to collaborate with product teams across the whole organization. In addition, you are skilled in stakeholder management and are great in building a big network within organizations.  

Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will adopt, learn and adopt together. You are an important player in this transformation.  

The teams within the Product Area Analytics & Data Platforms are responsible for all data processing, reporting and advanced analytics capabilities across the whole value chain. This means and unlimited learning opportunities.  

What you will do: 

  • Continue to create a learning organization while shaping modern, agile ways of working and communicating to various stakeholders the developments of our data platform initiative  

  • Act as an ambassador for the organization on how to coach and develop best practices across teams 

  • Spread our principles and values and ensure people are empowered / knowledgeable about the data platform roll-out 

  • Keep relevant stakeholders informed about the platform program, while generating and communicating learnings and best practices 

  • Assist management in upstream (CTO & CPO) and down-stream (product teams) communication & reporting 

  • Provide context, support and guidance as product teams move onto platform to work toward our business objectives - you will inspire, not merely direct 

Qualifications

  • Background in information / technology or innovation management 

  • Min. 1-3 years change management, innovation or strategic management consulting experience, digital program management experience, or other relevant digital transformation experience 

  • Worked in an agile environment for minimum 1 year, and thus have experience in SCRUM and DevOps 

  • Excellent English collaboration and communication skills, both written and verbal, Swedish is a plus 

  • Natural communicator with interest in both people and technology, with a high level of energy and motivation  

 

Additional Information

This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. Please send in your application as soon as possible, no later than 21th of November. Due to GDPR, we don’t accept applications via email.

At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be yourself and have room to grow. You’ll be part of an important project at H&M with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you’ll find plenty of room to grow. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin or background.
 

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