Are you a skilled Front-End Project Manager with experience of working with suppliers and 3rd party solutions? Come join us!
Advanced Analytics is one of the three key focus areas for the entire H&M group. We offer you a position where you will contribute within a new established support function. To this team we are now looking for a Project Manager within Front-end that can manage and further develop the Advanced Analytics platform. As a Project Manager at H&M you will be a part of a fast-paced, buzzing environment where we all share a great ambition and an anything-is-possible attitude.
The team will work effectively across both H&M business and IT groups and will ensure that the platform and front-ends continue to be a solution that supports the evolving use cases from initial proof-of-concept to full production phase. All needs will be delivered in a quick and agile way across diverse teams, to support the try-fail-fast approach. The platform and front-ends itself need to evolve over time to support new use cases and adapt to the emergence of innovative technologies. The team will explore Advanced Analytics Proof-of-Concepts as well as run operationalized algorithms.
Advanced Analytics provide an important support for our business operations and enable fact based decision-making along the retail value-chain. The algorithms we have started to use will contribute to improvements within everything from assortment planning and logistics to sales.
To thrive in your leadership at H&M we believe you bring positive energy to our workplace, and creates great results together with your team. You are communicative and have a pragmatic workstyle and drive towards solution, with a focus on delivering results.
H&M is an exciting place for an IT career! We open up at least one new store every weekday somewhere around the globe at the same time as we’re expanding online. This requires a lot from our IT-solutions with fun challenges along the way! We offer a dynamic and creative work environment where we as a team grow together. As one of the world’s largest fashion retailers we can offer you endless career opportunities.
Your responsibilities
The job of a Front-End Project Manager at H&M comes with a lot of responsibility – and lots of fun.
Your to do-list includes:
- Co-ordinate and manage 3rd party Technology Developer for front-end development and maintenance for multiple front-end apps
- Drive definition, and protect, overall front-end application architecture
- Maintain solid technical background, with hands-on experience in front-end software development
- Leverage Agile methodology to deliver front-end projects
- Coordinate use-case input for front-end app development specifications (epics / features) and team requirements for platform support
- Ensure creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation
Your skills
Just like everyone at H&M, we believe you are a social, open, communicative sales-minded and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism.
To be a successful Front-end Project Manager we believe that you:
- Have previous senior project management experience, especially in an outsourced design and development resources set-up
- Have 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Have at least 4+ years of proven track record in (front-end) software development project management
- Are very familiar with agile development methodologies
- Experience from Software Architecture
Experience working with AA tools and technologies is meriting as well as experience of working for a large systems integrator.
Sounds interesting? Here’s your chance for a career out of the ordinary!
For questions contact Jonna Lidman, jonna.lidman@hm.com or Lovisa Ermell at lovisa.ermell@hm.com.
Please apply with CV and cover letter at the latest 31st of January 2018. We review applications continuously but due to the holidays feedback might take a bit longer than normal.
The IT department is an important part of the company’s business and carries out operations, software development and maintenance of the company’s systems and business applications. Our goal is to supply as cost efficient IT solutions as possible in order to offer our customers “Fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way”. The IT-department is located in Stockholm and Borås and conducts business virtually all over the globe. The H&M group includes in addition to H&M the brands H&M Home, COS, & Other Stories, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and ARKET. As an IT-department, we work with all brands.
