Product Owner to Partner Connectivity

Company Description


About H&M Group
We are a family of brands, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. We develop tech solutions and products for the entire value chain for the H&M Group with the purpose to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Working in multiple areas of the tech field we operate at large scale, from AI, data, and business development to engineering and testing - we are influencing and engaging millions of customers across 77 markets.




Job Description


Join a truly global team on our journey where you will be part of shaping our future partner ecosystem all around the world. As Product Owner within Partner Connectivity, you will have a key role and be part of a team that ensures accurate and flexible customer fulfilment with our global warehouses and carrier partners. We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future.
We are looking for two Product Owners to our Partner Connectivity Product Area in the Customer Fulfilment domain. The area is responsible for fulfilling customer deliveries through a flexible and sustainable partner ecosystem.
About the role
As Product Owner you, in collaboration with your team, create the product roadmap based on a deep understanding of the market / industry, insights & data from our logistic operations, and input from stakeholders across the company. To succeed you need to build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with overall strategy.
As Product Owner within the area Partner Connectivity, you will be responsible for one or several of our third-party solutions with one of key logistics vendors. You will play an important role in ensuring accurate and flexible customer fulfilment with our outsourced partners within carriers, warehouses, marketplaces, brokers and garment suppliers through seamless integration and quick on-boarding. Here you become part of our online expansion with lots of cross dependencies, focused on delivering Business tech services that support our business to fulfill our company’s vision.
Working closely with the Product Area Manager and other Product Owners and our stakeholders in Global Logistics and Supply Chain to ensure overall alignment, you will set objectives & key results that your product will drive toward. You will also identify, build, and manage strategic partnerships across products, working to manage dependencies.
The Product Owner has great leadership skills, believes 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. Furthermore, work tasks include:
Lead the cross-functional Product Team and contribute to the end-to-end team output strategy from inception to production
Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to key stakeholders and the product team
Own, maintain the backlog and prioritize the day-to-day work of the product team based on the given targets and KPIs
Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for your product
Manage communication, agreement and relationship with our vendors
Work with a focus on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability

We are looking for you who
A talented Product Owner that is highly committed, customer driven and strategic. You are a natural connector & collaborator, positive and energetic who easily connects with people to build trust and relationships at all levels. You are truly a “doer”, willing to get hands-on solving any problems needed to make the team move forward and deliver exceptional customer and business results.
We believe that you are a great leader and aligned with a mindset to create a culture of collaboration, transparency, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability
You have the ability to gather, analyze and understand customer and business needs and understand impact against product backlog and impact on team
The ability to influence decision makers and manage stakeholders to achieve the Product mission. You have a holistic mindset and are typically skilled in breaking down silos, enable collaboration and empower teams.

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, stress-resistant and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized. We also believe that you:
Have a degree in business and/or engineering
Experience of heading a Product as a Product owner
5+ year’s work experience and previous leadership responsibility
Experience in leading a cross functional team
Proven track record of strong salesmanship, communication, negotiation, and networking skills, both with internal and external partners
Strong in analyzing, planning, prioritizing, execution, and follow up together with a “can-do attitude”
Motivated to work in an environment that allows you to work and take business decisions independently
Fluent in English both written and verbal

Considered an added value:
Experience from working with SAP EWM
Experience from working with Online warehouse
Competence within Agile Development & Methodologies
Experience from working within Supply chain/Logistics, Integrated Enterprise solutions and working with services and vendors in a global organization

That we can offer
At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be yourself and develop. You will be part of an important project at H&M Group with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you’ll find plenty of room to grow. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin, or background.
If this sounds exciting to you, come join the journey and build the future with us!