Lean Portfolio Manager to Business Tech Program Management

Company Description
When it comes to your daily work, what is your ‘why’? Is it to make the complex easier while accelerating change toward meaningful growth? If so, keep reading! We are looking for a customer-centric leader with hands-on experience from lean portfolio management in an agile product organisation. Welcome to apply for the role Lean Portfolio Manager to Business Tech Program Management!
We are a family of brands, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. Together we offer fashion, design, and services that enable people to be inspired and to express their own personal style, making it easier to live in a more circular way.
Within the H&M Group, Business Tech develops tech solutions and products for the entire value chain for the Group, with the purpose to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Working in multiple areas of the tech field we operate at large scale, from AI, data, and business development to engineering and testing - we are influencing and engaging millions of customers across 77 markets. Business Tech’s organisation is built on a large number of Product Teams, each responsible for business and tech development within their own Product and using a common agile way-of-working to achieve their goals.
What you will do as a Lean Portfolio Manager
As Lean Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for building the overall capabilities around lean portfolio management, aligning strategies with execution by applying system thinking approaches to portfolio operations, governance and execution.
Program Management, to which you would belong, is a group of experienced Program and Project Managers that leads and supports the agile organization with large cross cutting initiatives and strategic advising. Together with senior leaders within Business Tech and in collaboration with other leaders within the H&M Group you will maximize the flow in the portfolio Kanban based on customer value.
This is a new role within the Business Tech organization, hence the initial focus will be to shape and actively co-create the capabilities related to lean portfolio management with other peers, leaders and stakeholders. ​
Your tasks consist of, but are not limited to:
Managing outcome-based roadmaps together with the product teams, product areas and product domains
Managing the portfolio Kanban – optimizing on portfolio level flow and customer value ​
Establish and manage Portfolio flow – balancing the number of ongoing significant initiatives with portfolio capacity
Building capabilities around lean portfolio management and establish lean portfolio management in an H&M Group context



Functional Knowledge:
Lean portfolio management ​
Agile & Lean thinking and methods
Product Management
Stakeholder management
People leadership​
Prioritization and Planning​
Objectives and Key Results
Driving cross initiatives in an agile product organization
Jira
Experience from retail processes is a plus



What we are looking for
We believe you have several years of experience of leading people and teams in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You are no stranger to giving feedback, provide inspiration and to motivate others in their day-to-day work. You are well versed in Agile methodologies and can identify interdependencies within a dynamic product landscape and complex organization. The work is executed with a focus on business results, value creation, growth, and serving customers with full ownership and accountability.
Furthermore, you are an excellent communicator with experience of forming alliances and bringing together multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally to execute on a common mission​. You understand the importance of alignments of goals and plans to ensure the overall success of the portfolio at hand. You are eager to develop a thorough understanding of business processes and technical challenges, and you ensure learnings are documented and shared with others. Furthermore, you understand the bigger picture and work to improve the cooperation between the Business Tech organisation and other stakeholders at H&M Group.
Do you think we are a match? We hope so!
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. Placement in one of our Business Tech Hubs can also be discussed. If you have any questions regarding the role and/or the recruitment process, please contact Haben Zeriet at haben.zeriet@hm.com
Please apply with CV and Cover Letter as soon as possible, but no later than the 24th of October. This is an ongoing recruitment process, and the position might be filled before final application date. So do not hesitate, send your application today!
Note that we do not consider applications sent in via email.
Additional Information
The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you! We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.