Collection Designer to H&M Boys & Girls Accessories, Swim & Dress Up

Company Description
Hiring Immediately!
The H&M Head Office is based in Stockholm, Sweden, where we design and develop our fashion collections for a wide variety of customers. H&M is a dynamic international workplace where high pace and rapid changes are a natural part of our day. Good communication skills, a flexible attitude and capacity to adapt to changes are essential.


Job Description
This big responsibility is a 6-months temporary role on-site in the office in Stockholm, Sweden, with the purpose of overseeing and work with 4 customers and a large multitude of product categories simultaneously
You will work with the team designing and developing small accessories, bags, belts, swimwear and dress up products which are a complement to the garment collections for the Kids and Young collections. Hence the over all trend vision and guidelines are set and come from the garment concepts in the kids division, but you also drive and adjust some of the trends to fit your product groups. These products are to complete the look of the garment collections – the final important touch for the full fashion look for our customers!
You ensure we create the best current assortment for our boys and girls customers in these categories, to suit all shopping channels, always with sustainability in mind
The target customers are Boys and Girls for our Kids and Young concepts, ages: 2-14 yrs old
The role needs you who are great at work method, collaboration, communication and a strong leader resonating with our H&M values as it is key for this exciting multifaceted role!
A great development possibility for you with leadership qualities! (formerly known as Concept designer role)



Qualifications
We are looking for a leader with a true love and passion for the boys and girls customer and products. You are a leader with positive and energetic, curious, creative and playful with a great eye for upcoming kid’s fashion trends. You have a strong self drive and a coaching mindset. You are used to a collaborative work way and fast decision making, also under ever changing circumstances.
You also have:
Preferably experience from kids design on leadership level
Used to turn fashion vision into commercial products with clear customer focus – keeping the big picture in mind at all times
High competence in collection building
Strong drive and solid leadership skills are key for this role
Agile entrepreneurial mindset and adaptable to fast changes
A flexible, positive and inspirational team player
Adobe suite competence (CLO 3D is meriting)
You easily manage varied timelines and cross functional collaborations
Highly organized and structured
Excellent communication & presentations skills
English, written and verbal (Swedish not necessary)



Additional Information
Does this sound like your next challenge?
Submit your application; CV and portfolio (max 10mb/upload), with relevant work; including vision/mood boards, full design process and final collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to H&M girls and boys target customer. All documents should be in English. Applications must include portfolio to be considered and latest by 1st August 2022. This is a temporary 6 months position (with potential for prolonging), to start end of Sep 2022. We will be assessing candidates continuously but there might be a delay during some weeks due to holiday time, thank you for understanding!
This role is in the office full time, with location Stockholm, Sweden. If you are currently an internal employee, please remember to always inform your current manager you are applying.
H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.
We look forward to hearing from you!