Product Owner for one of the style products within Customer Engagement Area

Company Description


The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours 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.
We continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.


Job Description


We are now looking for a Product Owner for one of our Style products that focus on how to engage our customers through creation, gathering and sharing of style inspiration. Do you have a passion for engaging our customers through fashion and style? Then this is the role for you!
Within the product area of Customer Engagement, we create uniquely deep and meaningful relationships with our customers by providing inspiring, engaging, and relevant experiences. Data, loyalty, and personalization are key enablers for our success. Our area consists of 15 customers centric, and data driven product teams.
As a Product Owner at H&M group is a visionary leader who guides new product ideas from an initial concept to product launch and assures full benefit realization. Along the way, we collaborate with world class engineers and designers to maximize each product’s impact on the world. You are expected to show strong customer empathy and have a deep business understanding as well as strong appreciation for technology. You will be leading a cross competent product team that works to improve the H&M groups digital experiences across different brands and technical platforms. Leadership and communicative skills are essential to be successful in the role.
Job Responsibility including but not limited to:
·Responsible for leading an empowered and customer centric Product Team that delivers exceptional business results
·Set an ambitious and clear Product vision and communicate it effectively to collaboration partners and the product team
·Understand and contribute to the end-to-end team output, from ideation to production
·Collaborate with partners throughout the H&M Group to ensure digital vision and outcome align within Product strategy and objectives


·Responsible for Product specific KPIs in production and regular communication to internal and external partners
·Own and maintain the backlog while prioritizing the day-to-day work of the Product team based on the given targets and KPIs
·Align and maintain interfaces to other business functions and Products to achieve common objectives
·Take responsibility for the financial impact of Team- and Product-related decisions
·Utilize market and industry knowledge to the benefit of the team’s vision and output
·Define, implement, and track performance metrics throughout the full product lifecycle
·Work closely with Product Design and Engineering to Integrate usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction, performance and ensure customer driven design
Minimum Candidate Qualifications:  
·Bachelor’s degree in engineering/business/economics or equivalent relevant for the position
·3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager/Owner (or equivalent role) with outcome responsibility at growth-stage or enterprise company
·Experience leading a cross-functional team


Qualifications


You will have great leadership skills, belief in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. Focus is on value creation, growth, and serving customers with full ownership and accountability to deliver exceptional customer and business results.
Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail and learn. You are an important player in this transformation; therefore, we believe you are flexible, and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized.
We also believe you have...
·Functional knowledge of Lean-Agile Development and methodologies as well as Product Vision Creation and Product Roadmap Development Strong familiarity with Rapid Prototyping, Value Preposition Definition, DevOps and OKR methodologies
·Ability to build end-to-end product strategy, including definition of scope, roadmap, and KPIs and understand product development from ideation to release
·Experience leading a cross-functional development team to achieve the common mission, prioritizing work and inspiring the team to improve
·Proficiency with integrating qualitative and quantitative research, product analysis and customer insights into product requirements
·Ability to own and articulate end-to-end product requirements across product teams
·Capable of gathering, analyzing, and understanding customer and business needs and understand impact against product backlog and impact on team
·Able to clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for team members
·Ability to influence decision makers and manage stakeholders to achieve the Product mission
· Experience from working with fashion and customer engagement, marketing or sales in digital channels is meriting.


Additional Information


Do you think we are a match? We hope so!
Apply with CV and, as a suggestion, a personal letter 13/2 at the latest. Positions will be filled on an ongoing basis.