Design Capability Manager

Company Description
How do we make strategy tangible and help driving the company towards meaningful growth? How do we create a way of working where we learn along the way about what to build and then build it? How do we learn faster and support taking leaps towards our company bets? We are looking for a Design Capability Manager, an experienced design leader up for being part of shaping a new and growing design studio at H&M Group, a global company that is on a mission to transform the fashion industry into becoming circular.
Brand Services pioneer customer-centric ways of working inside the H&M Group. We enable our brands to move faster and stay relentlessly customer-focused by running frontrunning initiatives in many different areas of our business. We believe design-led innovation in cross-functional teams create superior customer value quicker and de-risks our biggest bets. We make strategies tangible and to bring transformative ideas to life from discovery all the way out through delivery. The function consists of cross-functional design teams, and many virtual team members across our collaborative network. We love to have fun, we work in the open and are always in draft. Together we learn, create, test and ship ideas at a high pace in the journey towards meaningful growth.
Job Description
As a Design Capability Manager at Brand Services, your job is to make sure that Brand Services designers have the best possible circumstances to develop and grow, as well as providing a servant leadership to promote and empower autonomous teams. We are looking for a forward-thinking leader with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting and sustainable ideas to life. You will have the opportunity to co-create the standards in our design culture, team development, design toolbox, and help elevate our design function internally and externally. You are a resilient changemaker who can help find the path in white space environments and push priorities forward. You respond positively to feedback and are able to stay optimistic and bounce back quickly when faced with setbacks and resistance. You enjoy running projects from beginning to end and can help build a highly efficient and impactful design organization.
Your responsibilities:
Staff responsible/competence lead for a growing team of skilled designers, support hiring and onboarding.
Developing others: Coach designers in a way that enables them to grow professionally and increase their performance.
Build capability: enable our design teams through trainings, learning journeys, playbooks, community of practice, set up learning programs also for our partnering brands and functions.
Weekly design direction and senior stakeholder management for one of the innovation teams.
Innovation & creating: Co- develop design guidelines to ensure quality across all deliveries.



Qualifications
Has 4–7 years of experience leading designers in an internal or external creative agency, or consulting environment.
Experience working directly as a designer or other user experience role.
Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills, and thriving ​in ​a ​cross-functional ​setting.
Passionate to work on ambiguous and complex future challenges.
Equipped with a collaborative and empathetic mindset.
Strong knowledge of design and user research tools, methods, and processes.



Additional Information
You’ll be part of an important transformation journey at H&M Group with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you’ll find plenty of room to grow. At H&M Group we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin, or background.
Does this sound like your next career step?
This is a full-time permanent position with start date as soon as possible, located at the H&M Group Head Office in Stockholm. You will preferably be based in Stockholm, but it can be possible to work halftime remotely from another country. Apply online with your CV (no need for personal letter), no later than the 11th of October 2021.

We would love to hear from you!


H&M Group is committed to recruiting great people, and we believe a diverse workforce plays an important role in our success. We welcome applications from all parts of the world and will offer relocation support if you are relocating from another country.
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