Unit Lead Way of Working to H&M Group

Job Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.
The Unit Lead Way of Working (WoW) provides support, and recommendations across teams—notably through executive, delivery leadership and team training. The Unit Lead WoW will build and manage a team of Agile coaches that will embed directly with Product Manager, Architects, and delivery teams. Regularly makes recommendations to scrum masters on strategies to calibrate agile fluency, leveraging the enterprise framework including direct support of work mobilisation activities (e.g. roadmap development, functional decomposition).
Responsibilities
The Unit Lead WoW act as Agile evangelist and is responsible for building an agile and customer centric culture and mindset within tech at H&M group. You will run coaching sessions, facilitate workshops, and educate leaders and key business partners in our WoW. You will lead a team of coaches ensuring sufficient coverage in the Product Organisation to share knowledge, unblock domain-wide impediments, and improve productivity across all teams. Part of your responsibility includes to develop the trainer playbook to embed and enable and activate agile role in engineering teams and drive end-to-end transformations with Agile ways of working as a cornerstone. Furthermore, you will be a strategic partner in organisational road mapping and structuring to drive increased ROI, greater adoption, and higher transformation success. We also see that you:
Facilitate sprint road mapping, planning sessions and retrospectives
Perform hands-on project work, including analysis, design and change management, as needed by the program/product



Qualifications
We believe you have a holistic mindset and are typically skilled in breaking down silos, enable collaboration and empower teams. You know how to establish collaborative partnership with key stakeholders to ensure leadership buy-in across both Business and IT. Furthermore, you can assess the current organization and delivery environment and recommend optimal agile practices tailored to business outcomes. In addition to this you have deep understanding and knowledge within:
Can identify and execute best practices to increase delivery, transparency, and quality
Can help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions
Scrum and Kanban Methodologies.
Agile product and portfolio management.
Scaled Agile Framework.

Working with tech at H&M Group
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech. The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.

What we offer
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits and a flexible work life, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.

H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.
We welcome your application regardless of who you are, where you’re from and what you like.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
We welcome all applicants to strengthen our innovative and diverse culture.
Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts

Additional information
This is a full-time position with flexible placement, preferably in Atlanta, Stockholm, Bangalore. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 30th of October. We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Mona Farshchian (mona.farshchian@hm.com) or Avan Shali (avan.shali@hm.com).