PLM Tech Platform Director – H&M Group Business Tech

Company Description

Are you a visionary leader that coaches and empower your colleagues to deliver exceptional customer and business results? Are you passionate for the latest possibilities within Core retail & fashion processes? We are currently looking for an experienced engineering leader for the role as Product Area Lead Engineer within Assortment & Product Development at H&M Group – Business Tech.


Job Description

We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technology development and new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. 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.


Qualifications

As the PLM Technology Platform Director in the product area “Next Generation PLM platform”, you will have the opportunity to join us at the beginning on an exciting journey. We are about to shift our core PLM process to a modern hybrid PLM landscape, enabling the power of data, technology and people. To provide focus, skills and bandwidth for this, you will form, build and run a new tech delivery organisation with an expected size of around 7 teams and 30-60 people in multiple locations. You will have accountability off the Product Area’s technical architecture and engineering practices as well as the area’s overall ability to deliver according to and beyond expectations. Close collaboration with Product Managers are at the heart of your work to ensure business value contribution at each step of our journey.


Within the Business Tech organisation, you will lead a cross-functional product development area that delivers business and customer value, through the creation of the unique products of H&M Group. You will collaborate with the Business Units, our brands and other Product Area Managers and Product Area Lead Engineers to solve complex engineering problems and ensure an aligned technology and value roadmap. Furthermore, you will:
Ensure a successful implementation of a hybrid PLM landscape, with a market leading PLM application at the core
Enable fact-based technology discussions, to reach desired business effect/goals and architectural vision
Staff management and recruitment of Senior Engineers within your area
Own the technology lifecycle management and API catalogue in the product area including the definition, creation and maintenance of technical interfaces / APIs in the product area that are exposed by the teams in the area
Work with enabling platform teams to secure efficient usage of common technology platforms
Be responsible for the overall work environment for your team

Qualifications
As a Technology Director you have a passion for tech and modern software development and engineering practices. We think you have great leadership skills and believe in a culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You empower others to fail, learn, and grow and celebrate success as much as failure. You are a visionary leader that coaches and empower your colleagues with the most relevant competencies so they can lead, collaborate, and deliver exceptional customer and business results. We believe that you are a curious leader focused on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability. You have a holistic mindset and are typically skilled in breaking down silos, enable collaboration and empower teams. We call this servant leadership. Furthermore, we believe you are/have:
The ability to lead an organisation unit with 60+ employees in a matrix organisation
Experience from a leading role in Implementing large complex enterprise technical solution landscapes, with a standard platform at the core, preferably within the PLM space
Experience of Digital workplace technologies
Experience within Cloud technologies in an agile environment
Excellent Strategic and Product technology competence
The ability to formulate solid business cases for technology initiatives
A deep understanding of Solution Architecture, API architecture and design and Data and Information Architecture
Experience with ROI creation and financial modelling of tech solutioning



Additional Information


This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm alternatively in one of our HUBs in Europe or India. Please apply with your CV and Personal letter no later than 25th of August. Due to summer vacations interviews will be held in the end of August/beginning of September.


We are looking forward to your application application!