Director: Area Lead Engineer - Data Transformation

Company Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organization delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. We are accelerating digitalization and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.


Job Description
As the Area Lead Engineer for Data Transformation & Optimization, as a driven leader, you will play a vital role for us in our mission to make H&M Group a truly data and insight driven company. You will work closely and report to the Unit Lead Data Transformation & optimization and will help support & lead development and maintain a strategic direction within AIAD & ensure alignment with technology and data Strategy.​You will lead development and maintain the strategic direction within your unit and capability area and ensure alignment with technology and business strategy. Being accountable for an area leadership, representing the unit and its members​, build and maintain strategic partnerships with AIAD leadership & stakeholders.
Responsibilitie:
Lead, manage and execute large cross-cutting and technology projects (programs), involving a large number of teams​
Lead, manage the program portfolio method and reporting ​
Lead initiatives cross Domains, Units, Areas and Teams, as well as with business stakeholders to drive joint initiatives, requiring synchronized backlogs and activities​
Responsible for planning and preparing the roll-out of programs in countries, coordinating both with regional stakeholders as well as program stakeholders, ensuring alignment on dependencies and timelines​
Takes responsibility and accountability and drives planning and resolution, providing key stakeholders with timely statuses​
Lead various product initiatives while delivering other cross-functional projects and ensure coordination across areas (where necessary) ​
Communicates with various stakeholders to ensure alignment of goals and tasks to ensure the overall success of the program​
Develop a thorough understanding of business processes and technical issues​
Enable continuous improvement during projects, ensuring learnings are documented and shared with other tech teams​
Manage stakeholders effectively​
Continuously improve the cooperation between the product teams with other stakeholders at H&M and in the Business Tech organization.



Qualifications
Experience and Skills​:
Drive project and program management skills incl. task breakdown, prioritization and planning, clarification of ownership, pro-active risk management and status monitoring​
Lead people and teams with including giving strength-based feedback, OKR-based individual development​
Assure assignments that foster the company priorities as well as the individual development objectives​
Identify interdependencies within a dynamic product landscape and complex organization and create awareness & understanding around it​
Communicate with experience of forming alliances and bringing together multiple stakeholders, both internal and external to execute on a common mission​
Understand core retail processes and associated technical solutions​
Challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas​
Roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn​
Empower others to fail, learn, and grow​
Have a business and customer-oriented mindset and solve complex problems



Additional Information
Functional Knowledge
Market & Trends Analysis​
Value proposition definition​
Scrum​
Business interworking​
Prioritization and Planning​
Managing backlog​
Agile Development​
Project Management and coordination (incl. Process management)​
Program Portfolio Management​
Stakeholder Management

Leadership Behaviors:
As a role model for our values and putting them into action, you are expected to demonstrate excellent cognitive, social and emotional skills and know how to nurture them in others by having the ability to…​
... commit to directional decisions, take ownership of the whole and collaborate across boundaries​
… create trust and dare to lead​
... communicate in a timely and clear way​
... strive for speed, reduce complexity and focus on the outcome​

What we offer
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits and a flexible work life, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.