Global Styling Manager at H&M Womenswear

Company Description
Welcome to H&M! A workplace where you’ll join a global fashion family and can be yourself & so much more!
We believe that it’s when you mix and match different talents, experiences, and styles that the real magic happens. That’s why our teams are built with different personalities, talents and people from all kinds of backgrounds. If you are willing to learn, grow and help our customers and your colleagues, H&M will always be a place for you to both express your individuality and feel like you belong.
We also believe that you can’t change the world without great people on your side. So, we offer all our employees generous benefits, lots of learning opportunities and the possibility to start building a more long-term career. Bring your whole personality to work, stay as long as you want, and grow more than you ever thought was possible. Be yourself & more at H&M.


Job Description
Are you ready to take a leading role in developing the future customer experience for H&M Womenswear in all physical stores worldwide? Do you have a passion for developing aspirational, curated & elevated windows with impactful storytelling? Are you an inspiring leader with a track record of building passionate teams to deliver great windows & styling level? If so, Global Styling Manager for H&M Womenswear might be the role for you.
One of our top objectives at H&M is to provide our customers with exceptional inspiration & guidance. In Womenswear, we are increasing our ambition levels in terms of developing aspirational, curated & elevated product presentation with impactful storytelling in all physical stores worldwide. We want to continue to push boundaries and develop modern ways of curating our assortment and we are now looking to strengthen our team with a senior styling & windows expert.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Take holistic responsibility to create exceptional inspiration and guidance through impeccable styling in windows and indoor.
Own the windows & styling identity and strategy to ensure competitive advantage for the fashion interested woman, always in line with the brand direction and Womenswear objectives.
Responsible to create aspirational & curated windows, indoor & window mannequins, mood boards and ensure seamless storytelling and commercial & inspiring product presentation through presentation guidelines and commercial information.
Collaborate with our local teams around the world, follow up implementation and take needed actions to ensure elevated window and indoor styling level & global window implementation with local variation.
Cross-collaborate to increase sales performance and drive strategies by pro-actively initiating and implementing windows & styling ideas.
Coach and drive developments in the team to secure top-level knowledge on windows, styling and fashion scene by internal networking and trainings with the wider VM community.
Collaborate and build a community with the H&M Studios stylist team for E-Commerce to drive styling & inspiration development and learnings cross shopping channels.



Qualifications
As a person we believe that you have a strategic and visionary mindset and can set, drive and develop strategies by always engaging and inspiring others to contribute. You thrive in a high paced environment and are able to quickly change direction and take fast decisions and actions even if information is missing. You are a natural leader that enjoys taking responsibility, bring new creative ideas and collaborate and engage others. You have strong presentation and communication skills and are able to adapt your communication based on audience and situation.
We’d love to meet someone who:
Has exceptional fashion interest and knowledge about global fashion scene, trends, tendencies and able to interpret into styling and product presentation methods in store.
Expert in Windows, styling, practical application of visual merchandising techniques and a plus if also an expert in store operations.
Able to set short- and long-term commercial strategies based on customer insights and data to improve sales & profit and build long-lasting and profitable relationships with our customers.
Able to co-create, drive, develop and innovate windows and styling direction to ensure exceptional inspiration & guidance and commercial excellency.
Has formal leadership experience from a senior styling or visual role within retail requiring influencing, co-creating and collaborating with different functions.
Experience providing teams with trainings and tools to improve and elevate windows execution and indoor & window styling level in physical stores is a big plus.
Confident in using sales equation and follow-up tools.
Skilled in Microsoft Office package and confident in Photoshop.
Excellent English language skills, both written and verbally.
Fashion school degree or similar within the fashion industry is a plus.

What we offer you:
You will be a part of a fantastic team with high energy, a lot of creativity and forward-leaning mindset. We are customer & data obsessed and we love fashion. We also give you an environment with a lot of ownership, where we constantly act, learn and adapt - breaking new grounds as a team constantly and find new opportunities to grow and develop our business. You will get a role in the center of attention with a wide range of touch points in global and local functions and colleagues from all over the world.


Additional Information
Please upload your CV (in English) as soon as possible but at the latest 25th of January . Due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page. At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Therefore, we kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.
This is a fulltime position, based at our H&M Head Office in Stockholm. Some traveling may occur during the year.
We look forward to receiving your application!
We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of great mix of people that share and combine their knowledge, experiences, and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.