Head of H&M Store Development, Global Expansion i Stockholm

The H&M Group is a family of unique brands united by common passions: to make great design accessible to everybody and to lead the way towards a more inclusive and sustainable world. H&M Group consists of eight defined brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET and Afound. Together our brands offer customers a wealth of styles and trends within fashion, beauty, accessories and homewares as well as modern, healthy food. The H&M group is one of the biggest fashion companies in the world, with 180.000 employees, in over 74 markets.

The Global Expansion department is responsible for management and growth of current and future stores within the H&M Group (5000+ stores). The Expansion team drives all aspects of creating stores, i.e. to lease, design, draw, buy, build and maintain each store, worldwide.

Store Development is part of H&M Global Expansion with the responsibility to secure a relevant look & feel of our stores in line with H&M brand DNA. This means designing future retail concepts and/or single interior products with the purpose to offer an appealing store environment and inspiring garment presentation.

The team consists of skilled architects, designers, graphical designers and layout experts, working in close collaboration with engineers and our experts within sustainable materials as well as a number of roles within the sourcing organization. We are a creative and ambitious group of people.

The development agenda is ambitions with set goals in terms of commerciality, time to market and cost, in line with our Circular Design principles. We are contributing to H&Ms climate positive goal.

We are looking for a new Head of Store Development. In this role, you will lead the Store Development team through success and challenges related to a rapidly changing retail environment. Together with Team Responsible and other Group Managers you will set goals and directions that will secure H&M’s brand Business Requirements and will challenge and develop current way of working.

Who are you?

You are a leader that can lead with vision and inspire. Following H&M’s leadership expectations you know how to develop others and yourself, you know how to prioritize to bring great results for the company and you communicate in a clear and inspiring way. You like taking initiatives and adapting yourself to changing conditions. You have ability to lead creative minds and great networking skills to connect various stakeholders around common ideas and goals. To manage the role in the best way you also have: 

• Understanding of our end customer and retail in general
• Experience from concepts development
• Ability to set direction and requirements based on customer analytics and data
• Understanding of sales – from merchandising and visual perspective to management of retail concept capacity
• Ability to see the bigger picture, connect with stakeholders and collaborate in an efficient way
• >5 years leadership experience, preferably also from leading leaders 
• Communication and presentation skills
• Fluent in English

The position is located in central Stockholm and you will be reporting directly to Head of NCGP & Store Development.  Welcome to apply with your CV and a cover letter no later than 1st of March 2020. For questions, please contact Pia Ramberg (Head of NCGP & Store Development) on pia.ramberg@hm.com or Julia Viklander (HR) on julia.viklander@hm.com.

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