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At H&M, our Sales function is the driving force behind our global success. We are dedicated to expanding and engaging our customer base while continuously evolving our sales channels. Sales at H&M is more than just numbers; it's about delivering exceptional experiences, curating aspirational fashion, and ensuring unbeatable value for our customers. 

Our team brings together a wealth of expertise across business, digital, and tech perspectives to achieve our ambitious brand goals. As a global function within the H&M brand, Sales holds the responsibility for our regions and plays a key role in delivering our brand plan. Our mission is to elevate H&M through product, experience, and brand, providing aspirational fashion at an unbeatable price. 

We are seeking a dynamic and business-savvy People Business Partner to join the Sales function HR team. As a key member of the HR team, you'll collaborate with four other People Business Partners and one People Generalist, all under the leadership of the Head of People, Global Sales. 

In this role, you will be instrumental in aligning our people strategies with business objectives. You’ll partner closely with our leaders to cultivate a high-performance culture, drive talent development, and lead impactful change initiatives. You'll also be a part of a unit's leadership team, with a dotted line to the Unit Head, ensuring that HR strategies directly contribute to our business success. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Strategic Business Partnering: Collaborate with business leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that align with the goals of the Sales function, driving business success through people initiatives. 
• Cultural Leadership: Champion a growth-oriented, high-performance culture that aligns with H&M’s values and strategic objectives. 
• Talent Development & Management: Oversee and implement strategies for talent development, engagement, and retention, ensuring we attract and nurture top talent across the Sales function and relevant regions. 
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Play a key role in workforce planning, including staffing projections, talent needs analysis, and succession planning to ensure our teams are always future-ready. 
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Leverage HR metrics and data analytics to guide decision-making and assess the effectiveness of HR programs. 
• Change Management: Lead and support organizational change initiatives that drive growth and innovation within the Sales function. 

Who You Are: 

• You hold a degree in human resources, business, or a related field. 
• You bring several years of experience in a senior and strategic HR role, such as HR Business Partner or HR Manager. 
• You have a proven track record as an active member of a business leadership team, providing a strong people perspective and understanding of the business landscape. 
• Strong leadership capabilities with a proven ability to manage and drive change effectively. 
• A deep alignment with H&M's values, with the ability to inspire and lead by example. 
• Your communication skills are top-notch, enabling you to build trust and strong relationships at all levels of the organization. 
• Skilled at listening and working with others while also being confident in leading change and challenging leaders, even in difficult situations. 
• You stay up-to-date with the latest research and trends in HR and leadership, bringing fresh insights to the table. 

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

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than the 4th of September. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through our career page.   

Benefits:

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. 

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries. 

Inclusion & Diversity 

At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process. 
 

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.