Chemist H&M Beauty Private Label

Are you ready to be a key player and leader in driving big future growth in a new and disruptive global beauty destination & brand? Do you have a passion for selling, retail, people and growing? Then you might be our new Head of Sales for H&M Beauty.


Within the new Business Unit called H&M Lifestyle Brands, we are building and developing the new brand H&M Beauty, which will apply the strong heritage of H&M to the Beauty industry. This will unlock hidden opportunities for growth and will add excitement and energy to our current offer. In line with this development we are now looking for a Chemist for H&M Beauty that will play a crucial role in our product development.


As a Chemist for H&M Beauty, you are a crucial part of developing new products where you support as a technical cosmetic advisor in both cross-functional projects and to individual ideas, drive and perform risk assessments and drive product certification processes to secure that we get the right product for the customer.
You support formulation by advising teams on viable claims and take part in discussing functional aspects for new products. You review and evaluate supplier submissions as well as support copywriters with product attributes to communicate to the consumer and product information management.
On top of this you are a part of reviewing existing products in market, benchmark products and participate in other external forums to enhance product development skills. Your networking skills enables you to easily collaborate with our production offices and together with relevant departments, set good standards and workable test methods.


We believe that you as a person are self motivated and have a proactive approach. You are ambitious, flexible and you truly humble team player. You have a global, curious mindset and are in the same time organized with good attention to detail. You thrive in an entrepreneurial setting where you together with the team are constantly looking for possibilities to develop new ways of working.

In addition to matching the personal profile we also seek the following qualifications:


· Professional education in Chemistry
· Experience in new product development in the cosmetics industry, ideally with time spent in a laboratory environment.
· Knowledge of understanding formulation
· Knowledge of product performance and claim
· Knowledge of global beauty and industry trends
· Good written and verbal communication skills- both Swedish and English


About the recruitment process
This is a full-time assignment, based in Stockholm and you will report to Section Head Private Label.
If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application, including CV and a Cover Letter where you describe your experience latest 2nd of October. Send your application to Fridak.nilsson@hm.com