Team Responsible for Commercial Activation and Packaging

We are a family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET, Afound, Treadler and Itsapark, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. Together we offer fashion, design and services, that enable people to be inspired and to express their own personal style, making it easier to live in a more circular way.
We aim to be the best employer around, looking after and caring for all our colleagues. When you start a career with us, there's no limit to where it can take you. We will trust you with great responsibility from the start, encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and reward a passionate mindset. Welcome to a dynamic workplace where you contribute by being yourself.
Job Description
Do you want to join Group Expansion in its mission to create the best omni-retail concepts for the H&M group stores?
Are you an open-minded and passionate self-driven leader who seeks business opportunities? Do you want to be part of driving change and Meaningful Growth? Do you have experience leading teams within Product Development, R&D and/or Innovation?
We are looking for a value-driven Leader to take on the role of Team Responsible for the NCG Development – Commercial Activation and Packaging.
The Group Expansion function is here to support adding Meaningful Growth. In partnership with our brands and markets, we are responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining our Group's Real Estate Portfolio. We lease, design, develop, draw, buy, build and maintain each store and non-commercial real estate and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. NCG Development and Procurement Department support our brands with Development and Procurement capabilities within Non-Commercial Goods. We contribute to developing and procuring our brand's concepts from a design, quality, sustainability, and cost perspective, always aligning with the brand DNA. We are a creative and ambitious group of people.
Within NCG Department, we work with a wide group of Stakeholders connected to Brand Development, Portfolio Brands Growth, Marketing teams, and Global Supply Chain.
This backbone team has a broad responsibility covering the Commercial Activation and Packaging Categories. The scope includes, but is not limited to, Windows campaign materials, Display forms, and Retail and E-com packaging. The team consist of one R&D and a group of Product Developers that work category based on tight collaboration within x-functional projects and our different stakeholders within the Group. The team's contribution has a strategic focus supporting stores sales, profitability and Climate & circular group targets.
In the role of Team Responsible, you will, together with the team and other collaboration partners, be responsible for setting and leading the product development strategy and pipeline, being responsible for the execution of all projects related to our Growth Playbook, Brand Plans, Climate & Circularity Leaps. You work in close collaboration with different roles within NCG Department as well as with multiple other roles across different parts of Group Growth, Brands, Regions and the H&M Group.
Your main responsibilities:
Leading by being value-driven and empower the team and individuals to deliver result
Set up strategies that supports the team to deliver on the company business targets
Secure right team set-up, competence and foster a winning culture
Proactively engage in finding business needs and seek constant improvement within your business area
Balance short- and long-term planning. Understands and prioritise projects and goals to secure a resilient work environment
Drive change through alignment with peers and colleagues
Collaborate cross functionally with stake holders and peers by being curious, open minded and flexible towards desired results
Responsibility for your business area including setting goals, priorities and ensuring results for the department are achieved
Play a key role in setting up our processes, routines and contribute to NCG category strategies
Enable and follow up on project execution
Manage and follow up on costs and budgets


Qualifications
Who are you?
You are a leader that can lead with vision and inspire people around you. You know how to develop others and yourself and how to prioritize and collaborate to bring great results to the company. You are an inspiring communicator with a curious mindset, are comfortable with challenging the status quo, and can take decisions to move the business forward. You seek business opportunities and like taking the initiative to adapt yourself to changing conditions.
To succeed in this position, we believe you also have:
Academic background and approximately 5-10 years of work experience and proven leadership skills
Experience from working within Product Design, Development and/or Engineering
Experience of working and navigating in a complex organization and environment with many different collaboration partners and stakeholders
Ability to work in a cross-functional environment ensuring good communication
A natural ability to see the bigger picture, implement strategies and guide others
Experience prioritizing and setting activities to secure business results
Understanding of our end customer and retail in general
A proven track record of creating clarity and structure in an ever-changing environment in a fast-moving organization
Good creative thinking and analytical skills, as well as a positive mindset

Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent position based in Marievik, Stockholm.
If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your resume in English.
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.
We look forward to receiving your application!
H&M Group 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.