PLM Business Expert to Product Creation Value Stream H&M

Are you ready to be a frontrunner in delivering cutting-edge tech solutions that enhance the way we work with product development, from design phase all the way until order I placed? Do you find inspiration in how we can maximize value by unlocking the potential in people, processes, and tech? Do you thrive in an environment emphasizing continuous improvement and drives change? Join us as a Business Expert in the Product Creation Value Stream!
Product Creation is one of five value streams in the central function of Product Offer Development & Support an H&M. It is a key function with mission to deliver on the H&M Brand Plan by enabling a world class Product Offer. The function acts as a center of excellence for product creation, and assortment planning, securing short- and long-term business effects throughout the whole product flow, developing the business using forward-leaning work methods and tools, as well as tech development, change, and innovation.
At Product Creation Value stream, we focus on transforming how we operate through industry leading capabilities for fashion design and product development to enable H&M to liberate fashion for the many. One big ongoing initiative is to modernize our current PLM landscape introducing a new system, which will provide a backbone for product information enabling more efficient and integrated processes.
We are now looking for our next PLM Business Expert to join the Product Team Product review and decision. which empowers our organization ​to drive an efficient and correct communication & specification of components and products through the full development process,​ thereby delivering the best products to our customers.
What will you do?
As a Business Expert, you will be the main contact and bridge between business and tech, making a difference for our assortment teams by translating our business needs for design processes into tangible actions in a straightforward manner. In this role, you will be part of a global multicompetent team striving to be at the forefront of working agile, smart, and flexible to create value for users and the company. You will have full responsibility to identify and create business value to shape the future of the Assortment flow.
In this role, you will be a:
Key player of innovation: Lead the demand of cutting-edge features, shaping the future of how we work.
Stakeholder Collaborator: Form meaningful connections to align tech development seamlessly with business needs, ensuring transparency.
Value creator: To see the totality yet understand the details to pinpoint what creates the biggest value for our end users as well as for our company.
Progress Champion: Drive progress by expertly explaining, anchoring, and safeguarding content within processes and solutions.
Feature Expert: Independently own the identification and implementation of new features, harmonizing with users and product teams.
Visionary Creator: Define the future with a strategic vision, leveraging deep understanding for our product roadmap.

Things we look for:
As a Business Expert, you will have a significant impact on the team. Therefore, we believe you have a deep understanding of fashion and assortment building, ways of working and processes, in particular product development processes, supplier collaboration and integrations. You have a excellent understanding of the product journey at large scale fashion companies and can handle complex information and business problems. You are great with people and can maintain a large network of stakeholders. Furthermore, you are detail-oriented and solution-oriented, yet able to see the long-term vision. We also believe you have: 
Hands-on Experience: A minimum of 3-5 years as PLM business expert or equivalent role in consulting and implementing PLM
Hands-on Experience of working with purchase or production in an international environment.
Expertise and or experience of at least two different PLM vendors, either as user or as implementing consultant.
Have a business and customer-oriented mindset with the motivation to constantly improve, achieve targets and drive the agenda forward. 
Strong interest in product data and processes
Interest in working with digital development in a structured way, with processes connected to it, and willingness to grown and learn in this direction.
Strong skills in Jira, confluence, miro.
Ability to work under pressure, everchanging and unclear circumstances.
Excellent communication & stakeholder management skills.

If this sounds exciting, come join our team to build our future together!
Additional information
This is a full-time permanent position based in Stockholm. We want you to start as soon as possible but preferably during early autumn 2024.
If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, and want to join our fantastic team, please send your CV in English as soon as possible, but at the latest September 20th. We will review and interview applicants on-going.


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 to your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases. H&M Group 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!