Product Designer – 11 months temporary position for Women´s Swimwear,

Company Description


Who are we?
Weekday is a Swedish denim and fashion brand influenced by youth culture and street style. Dedicated to encouraging self-confidence and self-expression, we hope to inspire our customers through a dynamic combination of product, creativity, and cultural understanding.
Founded in 2002, Weekday currently ships to 97 markets and has stores in 16 countries, offering a unique retail experience and a curated mix of women’s, men’s, and accessories assortments as well as a small selection of external brands. Currently we are around 100 employees – and we are growing!
In our stores and in our offices, we believe in individuality and inclusion. We value diversity – because together we can make a difference. If this sounds like a place you’d like to work, we’d love to meet you!
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 and we have fun every day.


Job Description


Do you want to be part of strengthening the Weekdays assortment? Do you want to be part of a creative team that works in agile and collaborative ways with the Weekday customer in focus? Do you have a curious and flexible mindset to meet our customer´s expectations and beyond? Are you a driven and creative person with a passion for fashion? Then we would love to meet you!

As a Product Designer you will work closely with the product team to create and design the best products and assortment for Weekday’s customer. You will lead the visionary fashion work and create the best products & assortment for our target customer to drive responsible growth in all channels.
• You will also be responsible for:
• Constantly follow & act on upcoming trends and identify new opportunities
• Research – the surroundings, competitors & fashion forward trends
• Drive the product development in a responsible way from start to end in close collaboration with product team
• Identify seasonal keys and drive new and commercial directions for your category
• Constantly follow, identify and react on tendencies based on customer insights and surrounding analysis in collaboration with product team
• Identify, develop and drive the way-of-working to reach our overall goals with relevance, agility, price and responsibility in mind
• Identify components and materials
• Responsible for and experience from product policy / legal product approvals for these types of products
• Close collaboration with design lead, product designers and print team
• Identify components (trims, finishes) & fabrics
• Set and drive assortment strategy & agile development strategy
• Close collaboration with the design lead, the pattern maker & the product developer as well as other Weekday designers


Qualifications


• Minimum 3 years of experience in similar role
• Strong fashion intelligence & relevance with sense for timing
• Creative and visionary
• Collaborative team-player with a flexible and agile mindset
• Growth mindset and diverse perspectives
• Strong ability to interpret the design direction idea to a commercial, customer focused on brand product
• Self-lead your work, take initiatives to drive the product creation and act on business opportunities with a track record in creating sales results
• CLO 3D competence is meriting
• Excellent communication & presentations skills
• English fluency (Swedish not necessary)


Additional Information


This is a full-time 11 month temporary position based in Stockholm to start 26th September 2022. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV in English and relevant portfolio work (no more than 10mb!) by Tuesday 26th July. (for Internal applicants please remember to initiate the dialogue with your current manager before applying).
At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Why 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 hearing from you!