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.

This is not a certain vacancy, this is a proactive pipelining for future potential openings.

As a Product Technologist you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers in product quality, fit and technical risk assessment on our products. Working on site with suppliers you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers towards self-reliance in the product flow in connection to your assortment needs. Working closing with the necessary stakeholders your role is to ensure we deliver the best product aligned with our business idea. You play a key role in contributing towards securing best product from a customer perspective. Working with the global/regional teams you are responsible for co-executing the market development plans and supplier / product strategy on your product categories. Working with our suppliers and hand in hand with other relevant internal stakeholders you are responsible for driving/developing product development and production capability within quality, fit and consumption optimization.

As a COS Product Technologist you have extensive technical and operational production knowledge on luxury brands.  Along with a very good level of knowledge and understanding in fit, grading, pattern construction, consumption, customer, material and cost, that you can rely on/ability to help grow and develop our business and supplier capability.  Collaboration and teamwork are key, you should work hand in hand with Product Development teams and other stakeholders to co-execute the strategies and activities that are set.  You need to be a strong communicator, using these skills to manage and educate a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.  Business minded, you have good local market knowledge and the ability to seek out further opportunities that could strengthen our customer offer  You act with a high level of professionalism at all times, while working daily as a role model towards our H&M values.

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 possible but we’re also the 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 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. Beyond that, it’s really up to you. 70% of our people manager roles are hired from within, so there’s not much of a limit to how far you can go. All we ask is that you be yourself, take ownership of your work and your career goals, and go for it with everything you’ve got.  

Thinking about applying? 

If all of this sounds like it might be your kind of thing then you should definitely get in touch. We’re more about personality and competence than qualifications, so don’t worry if your skills aren’t a perfect match. If your CV is selected then a recruiter will invite you for a phone / video call, followed by a couple of interviews at one or more of our offices.