3D Business Expert - Competence Lead to H&M Business Tech

Job Description


Are you a skilled Business Expert that wants to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations and create state-of-the-art solutions to make an impact on a global scale? Do you have the ability to mentor and grow your colleagues' capabilities and lead by example? Then this is the opportunity for you!
As Competence Lead you always try to act as a role model for the Business Tech culture and leadership. In this role you have a dual focus – staff responsibility and delivery. You will have staff responsibility over employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own. Your staff responsibility goes across Product Areas and Product Teams and you’ll be acting as the employer’s extended arm – to follow and implement H&M Group’s vision, goals, strategies, values, policies and processes, as well as acting as an ambassador, representing the management internally and externally. You will also be responsible for supporting your employee’s development, performance management and salary reviews. You will work agile in a small cross-competence team with a common goal to assure that the product development is in line with business needs and will help solving business problems for customers and business end users.
Being a Competence Lead you will also:
Contribute by sharing your accounting and business expertise within your product team and with stakeholders in other Business Tech products as well as other H&M functions
Be responsible for growing your employees in their business expertise by empowering the BE community to actively share knowledge and best practices with each other
Be responsible for workforce planning, e.g. rotation planning, recruitment of new employees and take an active part in recruitment processes
Remain compliant with laws and policies and act when necessary regarding e.g. under performance, work environment, rehab cases etc.

As a 3D Business Expert, you will most likely work with some of the following tasks:
Act as a subject matter expert
External business/industry surveillance
Close cooperation with business - set and maintain contact with stakeholders
Drive business development - find business opportunities with customer in focus
Alignment regarding business solutions with other BE in other product areas/product teams
Support Product Owner setting roadmap
Support Product Owner setting scope
Effect goal follow up with business operations



Who are you?
We believe that you are a great communicator with stakeholders and change management skills. You inspire others and believe in collaboration. You are passionate about coaching, empowering and leading others through humble servant leadership. You also have the passion for combining business goals with tech solutions and can solve complex problems by using your business mindset and with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation. You have previous experience from working in large companies with many stakeholders, you have worked with distributed teams, and you know how to translate business requirements and visualize technical roadmaps. We also believe that you:
Deep skills and experience from 3D (e.g Clo, ApexFiz/Shima Seiki) and the responsibilities within the BE role (e.g. business case creation, end to end retail design & product development process expertise)
Ability to discuss customer and business aspects in a tech environment
Have the ability to manage complexity when there are no given answers
Are a true doer, willing to get hands-on, solving any problems needed to help the product area colleagues move forward
Agile mindset and willing to find new ways to deliver on your goals in case you get stuck
Great presentation and communication skills with a strong ability to simplify the complex and make things tangible
Be an available and approachable for you team members by inspiring and coaching them on their personal development journey in alignment with the needs and H&M



Who are we?
H&M Group is a family of brands with the desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable and circular way. Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. We are seizing this opportunity to not only challenge ourselves, but the whole industry with the aim to be the most impactful ecosystem. We operate on a large scale across 74 markets. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design.
What we offer!
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.


Additional information


This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. We will review and interview on-going, apply as soon as possible but no later than 27th of January 2022. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Malin Kaloczy, at Malin.Kaloczy@hm.com, and about the recruitment process, please contact Helena Larbo, at Helena.larbo@hm.com.
We look forward to receiving your application!