Business Expert within Sample Management

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? Join us in the role as Business Expert within Sample Management at H&M Group Business Tech.
In the Design & Product Development area we have the mission to empower creative, efficient and sustainable Product Design & Development in a collaborative way, enabling our customers to find the products they want to look and feel good.
Sample management is the core link in converting our design ideas into products our customers love! As a Business Expert for Sample management, you will develop and accelerate the business flow for the prototype and sampling stage of the product development process by increasing efficiency, enabling cross functional collaboration, minimizing environmental impact and shorten our lead times to empower our brands and business units to get closers to the customers.
As a Business Expert you will be in the center of the action where products meet business. You will be the bridge between business and tech and work closely with appointed stakeholders across the globe, making sure that H&Ms Sample Management delivery is in line with business needs.
To succeed in this role, you believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, communications, transparency and trust. Working with a focus on value creation, growth and serving stakeholders with full ownership and accountability.
Responsibilities
Work closely with stakeholders and provide guidance to create alignment between business, processes and technology, review cost, benefits, risk, impact etc., of changes.
Act as a partner to the product teams and help them derive actionable insights and product requirements by applying your deep expertise in the area
Contribute with specialized Business area expertise to help improve Products to solve business needs
Support with identifying new product features based on business opportunities by assessing feasibility and requirements
Develop an understanding of existing business within the appointed area of responsibility
Identify interdependencies and use ‘holistic thinking’ to ensure the cross-team perspective

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 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
Strong business acumen & detail oriented

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.
Practical info
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. We will review and interview on-going so please apply as soon as possible, but no later than February 28th . If you have any questions about the position, get in touch with Johanna Lännevall, Competence Lead / Business Expert at johanna.lannevall@hm.com. If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Helena Larbo Talent Acquisition Partner at helena.larbo@hm.com
We look forward to receiving your application!