Director Engineering Assortment Planning Tech, H&M Group i Stockholm or in our Hubs in Europe, Stockholm

Are you a visionary leader that coaches and empower your colleagues to deliver exceptional customer and business results?  Are you passionate for the latest possibilities within Digital workplace technologies? We are currently looking for an experienced engineering leader for the role as Product Area Lead Engineer within Assortment & Product Development at H&M Group – Business Tech.

We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you!

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.

About the role
In the role as Director of Engineering Assortment Planning you will work as the Product Area Lead Engineer in the product area “Assortment Planning”, you will co-lead the product area, consisting of 10+ product teams (135 people), together with the Product Area Manager.
Main focus for you is to be accountable for the Product Area’s technical architecture and engineering practices. The mission of the product area is to deliver a colleague experience designed for excellence. The product area is responsible for develop and maintain application to empower our colleagues to create an inspiring and relevant assortment for our customers.

Responsibilities 
In the Business Tech organisation, you will lead this cross-functional product development area that delivers business and customer value, always with salesmanship at heart. You will collaborate with the Business Units and our brands, other Product Area Managers and Product Area Lead Engineers to solve complex engineering problems and ensure an aligned technology roadmap. Furthermore, you will:

• Enable fact-based technology discussions, to reach desired business effect/goals and architectural vision
• Be responsible for people evaluation of Engineering Competency Leads
• Own the technology lifecycle management and API catalogue in the product area including the definition, creation and maintenance of technical interfaces / APIs in the product area that are exposed by the teams in the area
• Work with enabling platform teams to secure efficient usage of common technology platforms
• Be responsible for the overall work environment for your team

Qualifications
As a Product Area Lead Engineer, you have a passion for tech and modern software development and engineering practices. We think you have great leadership skills and believe in a culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You empower others to fail, learn, and grow and celebrate success as much as failure. You are a visionary leader that coaches and empower your colleagues with the most relevant competencies so they can lead, collaborate, and deliver exceptional customer and business results. We believe that you are a curious leader focused on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability. You have a holistic mindset and are typically skilled in breaking down silos, enable collaboration and empower teams. We call this servant leadership. Furthermore, we believe you are/have:

• The ability to lead an organisation unit with 70-150+ employees in a matrix organisation
• Experience of Digital workplace technologies
• 10 years min work experience in an Engineering or Engineering Lead role within a large enterprise
• Excellent experience within Cloud technologies in an agile environment
• Excellent Strategic and Product technology competence
• The ability to formulate solid business cases for technology initiatives
• A deep understanding of Solution Architecture, API architecture and design and Data and Information Architecture

Practical Info & How to apply
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm or in one of our HUBs in Europe. Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible as we interview on a running basis, but no later than May 31st 2021 .