Value Stream Manager Demand & Supply & Inventory Management – Optimize

Company Description
Are you an experienced leader with a passion for delivering outstanding results? Do you have what it takes to be accountable for the stability, performance, and security of a value stream? If your answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for you! Join our dynamic and forward-thinking team as our Value Stream Manager at H&M Business Unit CX & Sales!
Customer Experience & Sales (CX & Sales) is a global function within the H&M Brand focusing on delivering a customer experience with exceptional inspiration and guidance and with competitive convenience. Bringing together expertise from both our business and from digital & tech perspectives, CX & Sales has a key role in enabling us to reach our brand direction – to become the leading destination for style through creativity and culture.


Job Description
In this critical role, you will be accountable for ensuring the stability, performance, and security of the value stream and achieving key business outcomes and delivering valuable results. The focus of the value stream is ensuring holistic solutions that maximize the productivity of our stock throughout our supply chain portfolio. You will inspire and empower your team to create and maintain a joint roadmap for the value stream that empowers the company and our colleagues to provide scalable and sustainable solutions that optimize our stock throughout our store and warehouse portfolios. In addition, you will be responsible for translating the business strategy into a clear and compelling vision for H&M services and working closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement technical solutions that support this vision.
Your key KPIs will be a balance of providing optimal service levels to customers to drive our top and bottom line via availability, speed of delivery, while minimizing costs and our CO2 footprints via data driven decisions in our core solutions. The role also includes you staying ahead of the curve by continuously monitoring market trends and best practices and bringing new and innovative ideas to the table. Your ability to assess changes and priorities, identify impacts and required changes, and provide scenarios and sequencing plans will be instrumental in driving the success of our value stream. In addition, you will lead, coach, and develop your team to reach their full potential. As a mentor and manager, you will be responsible for your team's performance and professional growth.


Qualifications
We are seeking an exceptional leader who embodies our values and is committed to putting them into action. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record of demonstrating excellent cognitive, social, and emotional skills and an ability to nurture these skills in others. With experience in formal leadership and the ability to lead other leaders, this individual will have a successful history of bridging business and technology strategies within the supply chain field to deliver key business outcomes.
You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can manage multiple initiatives, projects, and requirements based on business value. You have a demonstrated desire to build products and services that customers will love. We also see that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to lead teams and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive results and achieve strategic goals.
In addition to this, we’re looking for someone who has:
A bachelor’s degree from an educational institution in a business or tech discipline (economics, computer science)
Years of experiences of end-to-end product ownership
Extensive experience in multi-competent business areas and topics within Supply Chain field (e.g., Business Leader Supply Planning, Logistics, Merchandising)
Strong in analytical skills and data-driven
Experience with designing creative, quality products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
Experienced in conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping and analytics



Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent assignment based in Stockholm. If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than the 27th of February. Due to GDPR we only accept applications through our career page.
H&M 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. We strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Therefore, we kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!