Agile Program Manager - Digital Commerce

Company Description
When it comes to your daily work, what is your ‘why’? Is it to make the complex easier while accelerating change toward meaningful growth? If so, keep reading! We are looking for a senior leader with hands-on experience from driving projects in an agile product organisation, always focusing on what is best for the customer.
Welcome to apply for the role Agile Program Manager in Business Tech Program Management!
We are a family of brands, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. Together we offer fashion, design, and services that enable people to be inspired and to express their own personal style, making it easier to live in a more circular way.
Within the H&M Group, Business Tech develops tech solutions and products for the entire value chain for the Group, with the purpose to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Working in multiple areas of the tech field we operate at large scale, from AI, data, and business development to engineering and testing - we are influencing and engaging millions of customers across 77 markets. Business Tech’s organisation is built on a large number of Product Teams, each responsible for business and tech development within their own Product and using a common agile way-of-working to achieve their goals.
Program Management, to which you would belong, is a group of experienced Program Managers that leads and supports the agile organization with large cross cutting initiatives and strategic advising.
What you will do as an Agile Program Manager
As an Agile Program Manager, you will be responsible for managing complex cross-cutting initiatives, involving many parts of Business Tech and of the global business organisation within H&M Group. These initiatives typically require a wide range of activities from business development to tech implementation, including new product development as well as coordination of participating teams across the Group, of which many are distributed globally. The job often includes strategic analysis as well as technical and functional development.
An additional focus area within the role is to support continuous refinement of the product coordination processes by using existing and new tools to achieve the expected outcome of cross cutting initiatives. ​
Your tasks consist of, but are not limited to:
Leading, managing and executing large cross-cutting projects, by building strong collaboration with teams from Domains, Product Areas and Product Teams and Business Functions
Strategic development of customer facing capabilities for Online with a clear omni focus
Leading transformation into a modern technology omni infrastructure based on MACH principles [Microservices, API-first, Cloud Native and Headless]
Leading expansion of the H&M Group brands to new digital markets
Being responsible for planning and preparing the roll-out of programs in countries, coordinating both with regional stakeholders as well as program stakeholders, ensuring alignment on dependencies and timelines

Functional Knowledge:
Agile Program Management and coordination
Stakeholder management
People leadership
Excellent communication skills and interacts easily with a diverse range of both tech and business teams
Agile methods
Prioritization and Planning
Objectives and Key Results
Experience from retail processes and relevant IT platforms is a plus

What we are looking for
We are looking for an Agile Program Manager with a proven record of e-Commerce implementations, from conception to final product and we believe you have several years of experience of leading people and teams in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You are no stranger to giving feedback, provide inspiration and to motivate others in their day-to-day work. You are well versed in the Agile methodologies and can identify interdependencies within a dynamic product landscape and complex organization. The work is executed with a focus on business results, value creation, growth, and serving customers with full ownership and accountability.
Furthermore, you are an excellent communicator with experience of forming alliances and bringing together multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally to execute on a common mission​. You understand the need to ensure alignments of goals and plans to ensure the overall success of the projects at hand. You are eager to develop a thorough understanding of business processes and technical challenges, and you ensure learnings are documented and shared with others. Furthermore, you understand the bigger picture and work to improve the cooperation between the Business Tech organisation and other stakeholders at H&M Group.
Do you think we are a match? We hope so! 
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. If you have any questions regarding the role and/or the recruitment process, please contact Haben Zeriet at haben.zeriet@hm.com
Please apply with CV and Cover Letter as soon as possible. This is an ongoing recruitment process, and the position might be filled before final application date. So do not hesitate, send your CV and cover letter today!
Note that we do not consider applications sent in via email.
Additional Information
The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you!
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.