Job Description
WHAT YOU’LL DO
H&M Assortment is where we design and develop our fashion collections for a wide variety of customers all over the world. At Assortment you will be a part of a mixed team consisting of designers, pattern makers, product developers and planners, all working together to create the best customer offer while at the same time influencing H&M on a global scale. Sounds like fun? It is!
We aim to become industry leaders in creating irresistible products & assortment and are building a fast-moving & creative organization that is centered around the product. We want to build a trusted fashion brand and democratize sustainable fashion.
As a Business Controller, you will play a key role in generating sustainable sales growth and profitability for your area of responsibility both short- and long term. Through surrounding analyses and fashion forecast, this role will enable a current and commercial assortment. Together with your team, you will lead the development of our global assortment by generating growth, profitability, and customer value to optimize each region and ensure a locally relevant assortment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Optimize sustainable sales growth and profitability with the right quantity, the right timing, at the right place and at the best price.
- Take business-minded decisions and implement actions based on commercial analyses on sales, customer behaviour, and market trends.
- Take informal leadership responsibility, communicate insights in a clear, inspiring, and simple way. Mentor and lead your team towards our purpose and set goals.
- Participate in defining vision, strategy, goals and timeline together with the team leader.
- Support the team with buying follow-up securing the right assortment mix and volumes.
- Perform ongoing sales analysis and identify future potential and ris
- Take responsibility for the controlling and secure the balance between top-down vs. bottom-up perspective.
WHO YOU ARE
We are looking for people with:
- A degree in business, engineering or equivalent area
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn your analysis into actions
- Leadership ability and a strategic mindset
- Salesmanship and the ability to identify what our customers want
- Experience within e-commerce is meritorious
- Great communication skills
- Fluent in English, both written and verbally
And people who are:
- Naturally curious mindset and constantly looking for possibilities to develop new growth and more efficient ways of working
- Working strategically and will enjoy developing our business as well as working hands-on analysing numbers
- Communicating with impact and seeing patterns in our data
- Engaging team player and self-motivated to drive goals and thrive in an entrepreneurial setting
JOIN US
This is a fulltime permanent position based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden reporting to Assortment Controllers. You don’t have to live in Sweden already, we welcome applications from all parts of the world and offer relocation support if needed.
Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible but latest by 27th April. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
- All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound
- In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP
Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.
Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.
*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.
WHO WE ARE
H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
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