Regional Procurement Specialist i Stockholm, Copenhagen or London, Stockholm

Do you want to join H&M on a journey, changing the way we define a seamless customer experience? If you feel that you have a genuine passion for growing businesses and see yourself in a role contributing to added customer value, a strong brand and digital growth. Then join us and take part in changing the way we work with omni.

H&M is on a journey to become a truly customer focused company. We´re putting our passion for the customer at center, upgrading the customer experience and taking it to the next level. We´re changing our way of working to be able to offer our customers a seamless shopping experience. This means that we need to accelerate our omni customer experience and put omni at the core of our business.  

The Expansion function is here to support in adding meaningful growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. We add new stores and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, relocations and consolidations.

On this journey we´re all collaborating to create the best omni customer offer for our customers and as a Regional Procurement Specialist you will be a key player in making this happen. You are a part of the Regional Construction & Facilities (C&F) team and work closely with the Regional Head of C&F to set the procurement strategy for the region. Together with the C&F teams in the sales markets you secure the procurement strategy gets implemented with a complete store lifecycle focus including investments, long-term cost, quality, sustainability and compliance. 

Key responsibilities including areas such as: .

You work in close collaboration with the Regional Construction and Facilities team to set the procurement strategy for your markets and clearly communicate this to all stakeholders

• You work in close collaboration with the Regional Construction and Facilities team to set the procurement strategy for your markets and clearly communicate this to all stakeholders.
• You manage the contract governance of the markets, through constant follow-up and strategic meetings with vendors. Overseeing the cyclical procurement needs to create a strategic and sustainable process.
• You set necessary goals and KPI’s for procurement and supplier management.
• You will drive actions and follow-up results on a quarterly and yearly basis.
• You manage, with support from Group Expansion, procurement tools and templates (in LIMA and outside) such as the RFI/RFP templates and agreement templates.
• You work closely with all your markets, ensuring understanding of the procurement strategy as well as goals and targets. You analyze the markets for strategic opportunities.
• You are representing your region in procurement forums and act as a speaking partner towards other functions.

We see that you have a strong business mindset, communicate well and you are comfortable in making decisions. You have the ability to work strategically, by planning ahead and foresee opportunities and improvements. As a person you are probably analytical, methodical and conscientious. You enjoy teamwork and effectively collaborate diverse groups people to achieve set goals and targets. You have a coaching mindset. You can make complex topics understandable in order to create engagement and buy-in from your stakeholders.

Besides your personality we see that you have: 

• Experience of planning, designing, driving and evaluating procurements.
• Experience of preparing recommendations and presenting procurement cases to various stakeholders – across all levels of the organisation.
• Approx. 5 years of relevant working experience from Facility Management, Construction and/or Real Estate, preferably within the retail industry.
• Experience from setting and implementing procurement strategies.
• Experience from working in an international, matrix organisation with several stakeholders and seniority levels.
• Preferably a degree in Law, Construction, Civil Engineering, Architecture or Business Administration or equivalent work experience.
• Flexibility to travel within the region on a frequent basis.

Being part of our omni journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organisation for the future. This is an opportunity for open minded team players that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking, want to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work towards goals and go for it with everything you’ve go.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are a match, send us your application as soon as possible latest, at the latest June 13th, we will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. This is role will be based in one of our support offices in either Stockholm, Copenhagen or London.

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.