Legal Counsel – H&M Group

Company Description
We are a family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET, Afound – 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.
We aim to be the best employer around, looking after and caring for all our colleagues. When you start a career with us, there's no limit to where it can take you. We will trust you with great responsibility from the start, encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and reward a passionate mindset. Welcome to a dynamic workplace where you contribute by being yourself.
Job Description
We are now looking for a colleague to join our Group Legal team in Stockholm Head Office. This is an opportunity for someone with a genuine interest of working with law in a fast-transforming business. The H&M Group operates in more than 70 countries and continue to expand as one of the largest fashion companies in the world. With that said, it is crucial that Group Legal can enable business and mitigate risks.
In this role you will be focusing on compliance and data privacy law and be an integral part of a team responsible for the global data privacy framework applied in the H&M group. The job comes with lots of responsibility, complexity, variety – and lots of fun. You work with a high degree of autonomy being able to plan and manage your own activities fully. Your tasks will cover a broad spectrum of all privacy compliance related issues, with a global perspective in a large and exciting organization. H&M has a unique culture and you will be working with ambitious and talented colleagues while driving high level projects with stakeholders from the whole H&M Group including all our sales countries.
You will set strategies and provide legal support to the entities and teams within the H&M Group which includes:
Interact with and support all parts of our organization, such as Marketing, HR and Tech organization.
Ensure privacy by design for new initiative, projects, collaborations and processes.
Record processes and advice on how to apply privacy principles.
Support in privacy risk and impact assessment.
Have contact with vendors and partners in data transfer matters, including negotiating data processing agreements and SCCs.
Train teams and spread awareness in the privacy compliance area.

Qualifications
We believe that you are a team player full of drive and optimism. We work closely together both within the team and the rest of the business and we always thrive to find the best solutions to complex issues, therefore you must be comfortable in communicating with different stakeholders both within and outside of the company and able to explain complex matters in an easy to apply manner. You have an open and flexible mindset that helps you thrive in a fast paced and everchanging environment. You have a can-do attitude and a service minded approach with the great ability to structure and prioritize your work. You are comfortable in leading the way and has the mindset that everyone is a leader.
In addition to matching the personal profile we also seek the following qualifications:
You have a university law degree.
You have relevant work experience in data privacy from company, authority or law firm.
You are fluent in English both orally and in writing.

Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent contract based in Stockholm.
If you feel your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your CV in English.
At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. We kindly ask you to not attach cover letter in your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.
H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.
We look forward to receiving your application!