Data Specialist to Product Specification, Business Tech H&M Group

Job Description


Are you a Business minded Data Specialist that wants to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations? Are you also curious and passionate about building impactful analyses and a truth seeker using data? Then this is the opportunity for you!
As a Data Specialist within the Product Specification team, you will be responsible for starting new initiatives by finding and bringing new insights, following up and guiding us forward in the product team. The team's mission is to empowers our organisation to drive an efficient and correct specification of the component and product to deliver the best products to our customers that make them look and feel good, when and where they want them. Right now, we are on a big journey to build the future Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process where you will make a significant impact, in parallel with supporting the current PLM solution.




Responsibilities


As a Data Specialist you will be in the center of the action where the product meets business. Together with the team you will collaborate with other cross functional teams and stakeholders, helping to make sure that the product development is in line with the business needs. You will develop a deep understanding of existing business process within the area using data and user insights to build material that will support business decisions. Some of your daily work includes:
Analyze and support future business needs to get a strong understanding of the information structure and data flow to define appropriate improvements to secure end-to-end data flows with high quality
Analyze complex data sets to get insights from data, well-grounded recommendations using creative, effective, structured, and analytical thinking
Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve the data metrics
Together with the product team construct the product strategy, including definition of relevant business, OKRs and KPIs

Who are you?
As a Data Specialist you are a great communicator who are ambitious, organized and collaboratively focused. You can ensure that the team drives and prioritizes the right things in a fast-paced and growing business. We believe you have a passion for information modelling and data flow mapping, and you understand what an important role it has within an organisation. You are also a curious challenger with passion for people, business and technology who understands and solves complex functional problems. Furthermore, you have:
At least 3 years of experience as Business/Requirement Analyst, Data Specialist, or similar position with focus on information modelling and data flow analysis
Proficient in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint
Experience of working with business intelligence/data visualization tools such as Power BI and QlikView
Previous experience from working in an agile environment
Good analytical, technical and communication skills, presenting results and solutions in an understandable, concise, and inspirational way

It’s also a plus if you have knowledge in other tech tools/languages such as Tableau, Python, Shell Script, JavaScript, and Data Studio.
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.




Additional information


This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm, Sweden. We will review and interview on-going so please apply as soon as possible but no later than 2021-11-10. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Maliny.andersson@hm.com.