Business Expert Competence Lead in Allocation Precision

Company Description


The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.




Job Description


Our vision at allocation precision is to be accurate, efficient, sustainable with our actions driven by data, forecasts, and transparency.
Do you want to empower our organization to drive an efficient and sustainable tech development within Allocation precision? Do you know how to develop and improve the Allocation precision products with the customer in focus? As a Business Expert you can identify what makes the difference and you are eager to take part in our development.
At H&M Group we want to offer the best products to our customers, where and whenever they want them. That is a challenging task given the need of gaining efficiency and speed in our processes and we aim to direct our products in the most accurate efficient and sustainable method possible. To be successful in the future we need to find smart processes and tools to support these areas better and smarter.
The Competence Lead role has a dual focus – staff responsibility and being part of the Product Areas’ daily work. As a Competence Lead, you will have staff responsibility for employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own. Your staff responsibility covers different Product Teams and tasks include building a team of business experts, development conversations, salary review and to support your team members growth.
By being a person interested in tech, forecasts, supply chain and the customer experience, you will find this position exciting.
You will be part of a multi competent product team having the full responsibility to identify and create business value.
You together with the product team, will drive the tech agenda to take allocation to the next step, based on deep understanding of the product flow/availability and the potentials for the future.
You will have a tight collaboration with stakeholders in different parts of the organization, to make sure that process & tech is working hand in hand.
You will secure progress, explain, anchor and secure the content in the process and the solution. All with the aim to maximize business impact, benefit and effects.

Your placement will be in Stockholm. Your manager will be Jeffrey Hou – Business area Manager within Allocation Precision




Qualifications


Is this your next challenge?
A person who fits in this role is self-driven, customer driven and analytical. You and your product team will identify plenty of potentials and improvement areas. Hence, to make a difference for our allocation precision teams you need to be able to transform this into tangible actions in a keep it simple way.
You have at least 1-2 years previous experience in any of:

o Retail Merchandising
o Online Merchandising
o Logistics operations / planning
o AI/AA development or integration
o Retail sales / demand forecasting
You have experience of formal/informal leadership.
You are a team builder & motivator
You are strategic, analytical and fast in understanding and execution
You have strong communication & presentation skills





Additional Information


Please attach your CV in the application. Planned start is as soon as possible, deadline for application 2021-12-01. All planned or wanted rotations should always be synchronized with your closest manager before applying.
If you have any question you are welcome to contact Jeffery.Hou@hm.com or Goran.Westin@hm.com