H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.     

We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.   

We are now looking for Unit Manager SAP Platforms that will be responsible for the SAP Unit, including operations and management. You will grow innovative, optimized SAP platforms & services to support products and businesses that address real customer frictions. As Unit Manager SAP Platforms, you will ensure that multi-functional teams provide high quality services and capabilities that meet the business needs of the organization. You will be the gatekeeper of stable and modern SAP operations as well as bring the best out of the other talented technologists on your team. Some of your responsibilities will include: 

• Ensure teams create/maintain conceptual, logical and detailed SAP Platform/Service Architecture while meeting security and operational requirements with a ‘keep the core clean’ approach
• Accountable for technically modernizing the Core SAP Platform to realize a stable, secure and agile SAP platform, providing a key backbone technology for H&M Group
• Support the teams in setting up a catalog, where relevant, driving delivery as per requirements and leveraging APIs where needed
• Ensure state of the art SAP development and configuration practices through guidelines, guardrails.
• Responsible for the SAP development center, functional translation and service management
• Act as custodian for the SAP platform areas by encouraging the teams to constantly improve on operational efficiency by e.g., identifying operational issues, suggesting enhancements to business and other areas and push back on implementations
• Create, lead and enforce the culture of SAP best practice solutions and operations
• Embed and develop a culture of operational excellence with adequate ways of working
• Support maintenance and minor developments/improvements on top of operations
• Push for automation and innovation on SAP Platform areas, in a structured and strategized approach.
• Coordinate creation & maintenance of architecture artefacts for SAP e.g., Architecture definition document, High level designs, physical components, and cloud architecture
• Lead & support SAP teams from design to delivery with needed operational and maintenance procedures, while maintaining the highest level of security
• Understand revenue and cost drivers of SAP and take accountability for achieving them
• Support preparation of operations performance reviews, using data to support and present findings in clear and meaningful ways.
• Ensure and support that teams implement, follow and understand the SAP agile methodology, SAP Activate, and how it applies to the overall BT devops/agile methodology.
• Understand the future of SAP’s product portfolio and services in an overall BT strategy context

• 15+ years operational experience in SAP operations, development and/or delivery
• 10+ years’ experience in SAP development and SAP architecture, technical project management, solution delivery or technology consulting
• Ability to apply architectural skills to effectively solve strategic technology challenges
• Real passion for making an impact within the space of SAP
• Ability to frame SAP enabled transformation projects: defining the data architecture strategy, defining the implementation strategy and setting the expectation
• Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment
• Ability to communicate the technical vision to a variety of team members/leaders, in a business strategy context.
• Ability to embrace & reduce uncertainty through continuous validated learning
• Ability to partner with engineers and operational managers to define support documentation, control and portals
• Enjoy working in a diverse, global, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued

Working with tech at H&M Group  
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech. The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.

  
What  we  offer      
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness and parental benefits, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.  
H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.  
We welcome your application regardless of who you are, where you’re from and what you like.  
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  
We welcome all applicants to strengthen our innovative and diverse culture.  
Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts  

Additional information  

This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 31st of December. We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Khrystyna Hranda (khrystyna.hranda@hm.com).