& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story. Our creative ateliers in Paris, Stockholm and Los Angeles design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality. For us there’s no right or wrong when it comes to style, just possibilities and the joy of self-expression.

We’re currently around 2000 employees with online sales and stores in Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East and we are growing.

As an employee, you are always an ambassador for & Other Stories. An inclusive and welcoming workplace where great challenges and opportunities are offered to you to grow and where we win together.

You encourage and contribute to the shared responsibility of creating and protecting an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone can self-identify.

We always have our customers in mind and believe in a welcoming approach where our expertise and fashion knowledge are key.

You actively work to achieve great teamwork where our values are the basis for your work

As Strategic Lead NCG at & Other Stories you are responsible to set and drive strategy connected to NCG Development & Procurement of Non-Commercial Goods (NCG) for & Other Stories through cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders both within the brand at Group Growth and backbone.

You are part of & Other Stories’ Growth and Expansion function and you set brand quality requirements together with Group Expansion, communicating and maintaining a clear overview of timelines, forecasts and NCG development. You align on and steer supplier performance and the re-use strategy together with Creative and Architectural Lead, backbone as well as Group Expansion.

Responsibilities

• Set & Other Stories’ product portfolio together with Creative Lead
• Set Quality requirements and process improvements for & Other Stories Interior
• Setting direction and re-use strategy for the brand’s M&E portfolio
• Analyse cost follow up and quality for Interior program, identify and set long term strategy for value engineering and saving initiatives with sustainability in mind
• Prepare and involve stakeholders within & Other Stories for new market entries and inform Group Expansion
• Drive NCG development and set strategy with involved stakeholders at & Other Stories and Group Expansion
• Main point of contact for NCG Brand Lead
• Feedback and steering of supplier performance
• Drive process improvements together with Group Expansion
• Give input on NCG forecasts to Group Expansion
• Inform NCG Brand Lead about special purchase requirements
• Coordinate and prioritize & Other Stories NCG needs and set requirements towards NCG Brand Lead.

We’d love to meet someone who is:

• Open minded, solution oriented and showing a flexible approach in daily work and towards challenges
• Proactive and a solution-finder with a strong business mindset
• Communicate in an open, straightforward, and clear way
• Understand retail and always seek what’s best for the customer
• Structured and organized in your approach
• Result driven
• Believes in strong teamwork as a crucial base for each project but is never afraid of taking ownership and driving own tasks forward.

You are guided by our values in all that you do and you, together with your colleges are responsible for keeping the values alive and as a guide in your everyday work.

This is a permanent position starting as soon as possible, based at our Head Office in Stockholm, Sweden.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application in English through our career site before June 21st, 2022.

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. This is why 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 receiving your application! 

 H&M Group 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.