Store Design Architect/Interior Designer

Consumer behavior and customer expectations are rapidly changing, and so are we. The competitive landscape is being redrawn and digitalization and sustainability is driving the need to transform and rethink. This presents us with many challenges, but more importantly, with many exciting opportunities. Would you like to be part of creating a better and more inspiring world through meaningful architecture and design services to all H&M Group brands? Then keep on reading!
As one of the world’s largest fashion companies with operations worldwide, H&M Group is an exciting and dynamic place to pursue a career within the retail industry. Our many unique brands all over the world offer endless opportunities for you to explore your own path. We are now looking for talented persons to join our Analysis and Operation team at the Group Store Design department as Tech Lead!
Group Store Design delivers architect and design services to several brands globally. Together with our brand partners, we strive to enable meaningful business growth by leading our industry towards more sustainable and relevant architect and design solutions.
The Analysis & Operations team is responsible for all analysis, operations and system development connected to the Global Store Design function. We support our brands and teams with various types of analyses and insights to enable meaningful growth as well as constantly developing our systems and operational excellence forward. We improve the efficiency of existing processes and systems to enhance and sustain the organization’s internal capacity.
As a Store Design Tech Lead you will lead and support the continuous development of all retail architecture systems for the Store Design function. As part of our new team you will help us ensuring a strong and professional tech foundation towards our brand partners, securing high qualitative deliveries. You will have a strategic responsibility over our systems at the department focusing on identifying new software development, creating business cases, prioritizing, ordering and implementation of such, globally and locally, to enable better customer experience and operation excellence at the department.
Your responsibilities:
Strategic responsibility to initiate and drive system development within the organization, enabling agile, fast and high-quality deliveries towards our brands with focus on identifying new software opportunities. You will create business cases, set clear budget priorities, secure order and implementation in collaboration with our Business Tech function
Project management and cross-collaboration in system development project towards our organization
Plan and perform education sessions for all users based on new software, with the overall target to improve onboarding and overall software usage
Responsible for all development and operational updates of our systems

Qualifications
We’re looking for an Architect or Interior Designer, with a passion for digitalizing our industry. You are an open-minded team player who enjoys working in an international and creative environment. We believe you to be brave in your way of working, you get energy from trying the unfamiliar with an agile mindset and always welcoming the unexpected. You are communicative person with a positive attitude, you take ownership of your work and always give it your best. Most importantly of all, we want you to be you, we encourage diversity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds!
We believe you have:
Minimum 5 years documented experience working within the area of retail Architecture & Design
Minimum B.Sc. within relevant field of studies, i.e., Architecture, Interior Design or Industrial Engineering etc.
A passion for driving digitalization within the field of Architecture and Design, proven experience is highly meriting
Project management experience and skills preferably within the area of retail and system development
Previous experience from informally or formally leading others, including developing, coaching and managing people to help them reach their full potential and best result
Good strategic abilities, i.e. able to define, package and communicate effective mid- and long-term plans supporting an overall vision or strategic direction
A natural ability to create process mappings, develop and manage ways of working
Advanced user of relevant drawing software's such as AutoCAD Architecture and other AutoDesk products, Enscape, F Storm, Sketchup and Office 365 etc.
Passion for digitalization
Fluent in English
Ability to travel occasionally

International working experience is seen as meriting.
We offer you a great opportunity of being part of pushing the physical retail experience in a new direction. We offer a creative work environment where culture and values play a big part in everything we do. We enjoy seeing people grow within our company and take a long-term approach to all of our recruitments.