Merchandise Manager to H&M Franchise

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way.

Job Description
As a Merchandise Manager, you will lead and support our franchise partners across the world. You will be driving the implementation of our merchandising strategy across various channels, including online, in-store and emerging platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as digital, commercial and visual as well as global counterparts in assortment office to enhance customer satisfaction, lead and secure the buying process, optimize inventory and achieve substantial revenue growth.

This role requires regular travel across all franchise markets, ranging from Indonesia to Costa Rica. Trips typically last 2 to 10 days and occur every 2 to 3 months.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Be the expert on your market and staying up to date with competitive landscape in terms of product: fashion, quality, price and activation

• Be responsible for all information (quarterly priorities, must win, commercial information) sent to our Digital and Retail units

• Influence and execute the global product strategy from Customer Groups and Global Merchandising

• Maximize short and long-term profitable growth for your concept in your region

• Lead and secure, quantities, income per period, assortment width, and manage regional product lifecycle through collaboration with the assortment team

• Optimize net selling by establishing clear commercial priorities per channel, by identifying and acting on the sales opportunities/threats

• Optimize regional commercial product offerings for all available channels, both short and long term
  

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have 3-5 years of experience in merchandising, buying, planning or within the Franchise business, ideally with exposure to both retail and digital environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of logistics, allocation, store operations and online sales. Moreover, you should have:

• High analytical skills and salesmanship

• Advanced Excel user skills

• Collaborative personality and good communication skills

• Documented successful outcomes from previous formal or informal leadership experience

• Fluent written and spoken English
  

Additional Information
These are two fulltime permanent positions based in our head office in Stockholm and you are expected to work from our office 4 days a week. You will be reporting to the OMNI Head of Merchandising Franchise, Delherbe Yannick.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application as soon as possible but no later than the 24th of January, 2025. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than the 17th of March. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Inclusion & Diversity
At H&M Group, we're determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.
Location
Mäster Samuelsgatan 46, Stockholm, Sweden