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.

About H&M Production

Transform design ideas into real products at H&M Production. The direct point of contact for local suppliers in over 20 sourcing markets, we ensure that top-quality products are made as sustainably and cost-effectively as possible.

We are hiring Social Validation Specialist with focus on securing all long and short-term social goals for H&M. As Social Validation Specialist you are accountable for ensuring our new and existing suppliers comply with H&M group’s social standards.

You are responsible for working with suppliers to ensure they are equipped in carrying out self-assessments that comply with our working methods and standards. You also monitor the quality of data and information provided through validation. You evaluate supplier’s performance based on the standards. You set up supplier improvement plan based on Higg/ FSLM performance. Then clearly communicate the areas for improvement with suppliers, guiding them through root cause analysis to secure their understanding on our working method and standards. Support suppliers and internal teams on competence building. You support Social Validation Manager or Lead on trainings and workshops for internal teams and suppliers to update the improvement areas, best practices, and new guidelines.

In all that you do, stakeholder management is at the forefront of your mind as you continuously engage with them to achieve social goals. You will collaborate with a lot of stakeholders in Group Production management and across our production markets. So, you need to proactively manage them, balancing different, sometimes competing—or even conflicting— priorities and somehow finding your way through it all to reach a mutually beneficial outcome.  Your solutions-oriented approach will help you to look constantly for innovative & improvement ways. Your contribution will support H&M to ensure impactful changes in the supply chain.

The person we are looking for must have experience of handling different social projects. A team player, who can drive towards the common goal and should preferably have extensive knowledge in solving various social challenges for RMG/Footwear/Accessories industry. Communication skills will also be a key element when deciding who we will hire for the role as you will need to build relationships globally across Production. To be successful in this role, you need to have strong analytical skills for anticipating potential challenges on a global level, suggesting optimizations, and resolving issues. Most importantly though, we are looking for someone who is passionate about contributing to the team!

Apart from these skills, you must also have:

• Academic background on Social Science & labor law related areas
• 3-4 years’ experience in Social Sustainability areas
• Ability to multi-task and manage various project elements simultaneously 
• Ability to manage/ analyze data and visualize
• A flexible, positive, and inspirational team player  

Is H&M right for me?

People who are happy and do well at H&M tend to thrive on using their intuition and common sense. We might be the place of possibility, but we’re also a place of ambiguity and constant change. This is not a company for micro-managers or people who operate on autopilot. This is a company where your opinions will inform business decisions, so you need to enjoy making them heard, questioning how things work, and trying things that you might not be familiar with.

Consequently, we depend on teamwork. And we have a pretty high tolerance for failure, provided you can show you’re learning. You can expect to take on new responsibilities and to move around a bit, too, so this could be the start of a varied and rewarding career if that’s what you’re looking for.

Thinking about applying?

If all of this sounds like it might be your kind of thing then you should definitely apply by 22 September, 2022. If your CV is selected then a recruiter will invite you for a phone / video call, followed by a couple of interviews.

H&M 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.