PLM Application Engineering Manager, H&M Group

Job Description


Are you a leader with great passion for technology and product lifecycle management? Join us as a PLM Application Engineering Manager and be a crucial part of our implementation journey!
H&M Group is on an exciting path to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry, and we are therefore delighted to announce the opening of this role at H&M Group, Business Tech.
We are looking for a highly motivated and team-oriented Engineering Manager with centric C8 experience to join our PLM team. You will serve as a critical resource in the PLM team for C8 implementation and ongoing support of H&M Group’s global PLM system. As Engineering Manager you will lead and support the full PLM team, and help facilitate tasks across technical and functional departments. You will collaborate across all teams to ensure a seamless exchange and management of product data and the overall user experience. This is an excellent career opportunity for a professional with an impressive implementation and support background and excellent interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
As Engineering Manager you will provide a technical and process-oriented approach to PLM, as well as strategic insights to evolve and enhance the user experience. You will also build and manage the application team. Your responsibility is to work with the business leads and technical development teams to provide best-in-class scalable solutions and deliver in a timely manner. You will thrive in a highly collaborative workplace and actively engage in the development process. You will lead the development team and establish processes to meet quality standards, as well as coordinate support activities and identify solutions for complex issues. Furthermore, you will:
Gather requirements, Create solution proposals and specification documentation
Configure, Customize & Build solutions to meet business processes and requirements.
Work closely with Business/Solution Architects/Developers and support them for drawing estimates, developing prototypes, and implementing quality solutions
Collaborate with cross-functional leads and business teams to develop PLM road map
Assure data integrity and provide solutions when inconsistencies are identified
Design integrations in line with the system footprint in the organization
Lead the Release Management and Deployment process
Manage Vendor resources from a delivery standpoint
Manage and build a team of engineers, analysts, consultants

Who you are
We believe you are a great leader, with strong communication skills. These skills make you an expert in stakeholder management and managing collaborative networks. You are humble and believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety and build trust and relationships at all levels, which is why you are happy to get involved in the day-to-day activities of your team. We also believe you are driven and analytical. Furthermore, we believe you have:
Senior experience from PLM software implementations and maintenance
Experience from working as an Engineering Manager (or similar) with staff responsibility
Knowledge and experience of agile methods and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
Worked with product mission, OKR creation, roadmap development & management
Senior experience from mapping business requirements to technical requirements and solutions

It is also beneficial if you have:
Senior experience from Centric C8 PLM, especially with Style/Product, Material, BOM, Tech Pack, , Change, as well as ERP and/or Planning integrations
Senior C8 Solution Designing skills for both Client, Server, and integration with third-party applications such as PIM, ERP etc
Thorough understanding of Centric C8 architecture, Reflective Data Model (graph/node), and other configurations. REST API and MQ (RabbitMQ) are needed for integration support and strong SQL skills
Experience in Centric C8 modules/capabilities such as Workflow (BPNM modelling – e.g. Camunda), Expression writing, Range Planning, Change Management, Hierarchy and Item Classification, Master Data Library Designs (material, size, color), Sourcing, Costing and Pricing, Purchase Orders and Quality Management Roll-up engine optimization
Centric advanced configuration skills ML/JSON/JS
GCP experience and certificates
Coding & architecture skills in Java, Python, C++ advantageous - JS (dojo, TypeScript or angular)

Who are we?
H&M Group is a family of brands with the desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable and circular way. Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. We are seizing this opportunity to not only challenge ourselves, but the whole industry with the aim to be the most impactful ecosystem. We operate on a large scale across 74 markets. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design.
What we offer!
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.




Additional information


The position is full time with placement in Stockholm, Bangalore or London. We interview continuously. We look forward to receiving your resume as soon as possible, but no later than 2022-01-20. For any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Camilla at Camilla.warholm@hm.com.