Construction and Facility Manager

Company Description
ARKET is a modern-day market and lifestyle destination offering essential products for men, women, children and the home, as well as a New Nordic vegetarian café. Our wide assortment of fashion, food and functional home items is curated to simplify good choices and provide inspiration for a more beautiful everyday life.
We’re currently 1000+ employees with online sales and stores in Europe and Asia as well as presence on digital marketplaces –and we are growing.
As an employee, you are always an ambassador for ARKET and part of leading our company forward where everyone is seen as a leader, both for yourself and the work you do.
ARKET is an inclusive and welcoming workplace where great challenges and opportunities are offered to you to grow and where we win together. You encourage and contribute to the shared responsibility of creating and protecting an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone can self-identify.
We always have our customers in mind and believe in a welcoming approach where our expertise and fashion knowledge are key. You actively work to achieve great teamwork where our values are the basis for your work and a natural part of our way of working.


Job Description
As a Construction & Facility Manager, you are reporting to the Head of Store Development and is responsible for all Construction and Facility related activities within the brand. You will be the main point of contact within ARKET for Global, Regional & Market Construction and Facility Departments within the H&M Group and you’re involved in all projects and most initiatives within Store Development. Some of your responsibilities are:
work closely with our market teams to optimize store projects from a cost, time, quality, compliance and sustainability perspective. (E.g., operational follow-up on the project budgets and mitigation of change orders)
travel to the relevant markets to secure projects and support local expansion teams to deliver projects and facility management services in an efficient way.
collect and align business needs within ARKET and communicate this to relative stakeholders within company,
review, analyze and challenge budgets for new projects and provide relevant feedback to the market teams during new openings, optimizations and consolidations.
set & secure goals and strategy together with the management in respect of cost, time, quality, compliance and sustainability and provide constructive feedback to relevant stakeholder.
analyze trends for the goals and KPI’s, react and take actions needed.
develop brand specific routines for how to build the stores, maintenance instructions and guidelines by bringing expertise and innovative ideas within these areas.



Qualifications
We believe you are a self-driven leader with a proactive approach to work tasks and responsibilities and you have strong organizational skills. As a person, we believe you are ambitious, competitive, humble and a fast learner. You are constantly looking for possibilities to improve things. You are a problem solver that have great people skills, a drive to take own initiatives and the ambition to make a change. You are flexible, can adjust quickly to changes and are comfortable with international travel. You value personal responsibility, fast pace working environment, teamwork and straight forward communication. You enjoy working in a global role, with many different cultures and backgrounds where collaboration is key. You also have:
International experience from working in a global environment within Expansion of physical retails stores with several stakeholders and seniority levels.
High drive with strong attention to detail. Can cope with a high degree of ambiguity, uncertainty and change.
Analytical approach and ability to review and challenge costs and investments regarding construction and facility.
Proficient in Office and able to read and understand Construction Drawings and blueprints.
Excellent communication skills in English, written and spoken, any other language an asset.
Experience from Construction, Facility Management, and/or Real Estate, preferably within the retail industry
Project management, engineering / architect background and/or relevant business experience
Someone who can bring a new or different perspective to the brand and the team.



Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent position located in Stockholm, Södermalm reporting to Store Development Manager. If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your resume in English (no need for cover letter) 22nd October 2023.
We offer a work environment where culture and values play a big part in everything we do. We have a flexible attitude and value an entrepreneurial spirit. We want every employee to take ownership of the ARKET’s success and believe that a fun working place generates great results.
We look forward to receiving your application!
H&M Group 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.