We are looking for a Buyer to start up a new Regional Assortment team for Menswear in India.

The team will consist of a Buyer and a Designer, responsible for using our global assortment as base and in strong collaboration with Product-teams in Stockholm, optimize the biggest and best products from global while also creating commercial and locally relevant products unique for India. The team will focus mainly on Menswear collection with some extended responsibility for both men/women on local India shoes and jewellery. Besides the core-assortment intended for our physical and digital store, you will in this role also lead & guide the local team currently optimizing our locally produced speed-buying for our marketplaces. 

As Buyer – Local Relevance you will lead the Regional Assortment team for Menswear in India, setting the overall strategy but also working hands-on with product development and together with suppliers.  Together with the merchandise team you will feed global with input on top orders and driving categories, quantification and seasonality as well as being in charge for the planning of the local products. This role gives a great opportunity to drive business full circle, in the intersection between assortment building, production and sales.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Secure best product at the best price, at the right time, in the right quantity with a local relevance focus across all channels, both in store and online
• Responsible to identify gaps in the global assortment, and act upon that discovery trough defining locally relevant assortment and planning local relevance product drops
• Together with counterparts in global product-teams as well as merchandising, set a strategy for tweak & removal from global assortment to enable better sell-through and right seasonality
• Set and execute a local assortment strategy that defines current & commercial fashion in line with the global assortment directions 
• Utilize customer, fashion, and selling insights to develop the best locally relevant customer offer
• Responsible for product development and order placement of local relevance drops in line with AO’s overall strategy.
• Responsible to ensure capacity, flexibility, profitability, and sustainability
• Responsible to ensure the local market-place speed-assortment is in line with our overall AO strategy by guiding and education the local team in H&Ms way of working.
• Empower and lead the team to collaborate, role modelling the H&M values
• Ensure a strong collaboration with stakeholders in Region, Customer Groups and Production.

We are looking for you with the below skills & experiences :

• Degree in textile, fashion or equivalent, preferably working as a Product Manager or a senior strategic Buyer today.
• In depth knowledge of the fashion and/or retail industry and a sense of style and trends relevant to the target customer (s)
• Customer centric mindset with clear understanding of the target customer (s)
• Proven track record in creating current, commercial, and profitable products,
• Strong in commercial assortment building and salesmanship
• Omni-channel knowledge and focus
• Strong strategic ability, collaboration and communication skills
• Proven leadership experience and skills
• English fluency

This is a full-time position based at the Support Office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than April 2nd, 2025. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

The role is open only and for all internal colleagues across the globe. Please reach out to balram.singh@hm.com for queries on relocation support for Global Colleagues.

Curious to know more about the India Hub?

Our aim is to be a fashion brand dedicated to liberating fashion for the many and in order to do it right, we need to be relevant in every market. We believe that it all starts and ends with making fantastic products that our customers love. Our promise is a world of relevant products and elevated experiences, designed to unleash self-expression and boosted through credibility in our brand. The purpose of the India Hub is to optimize our product- & assortment-relevance through the lens of the Indian consumer. By tweaking the global assortment as well as adding parts of a local assortment the goal is to drive brand relevance, traffic and selling in Region India. Through this hub, local relevance teams for Womenswear, Menswear and Kids are gathered in Stockholm and India to provide relevant fashion to our customers in the Region, as part of our growth-acceleration of India towards 2028.