Senior Merchandiser - H&M Womenswear

As a Senior Merchandiser your focus is on delivering the optimal product for your designated customer group across all the Production offices. You take full ownership of implementing and ensuring the success of the merchandising strategy tailored to your specific customer segment section department or product type. Your role involves overseeing a structured workflow to guarantee the delivery of the most compelling customer proposition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand the competitive environment and strike a balance between customer expectations and company strategy objectives.
• Serve as the primary liaison with existing and potential suppliers fostering strong relationships and monitoring their performance. Take full responsibility for developing suppliers to meet customer and product specifications.
• Manage supplier relations to align with short and long-term production goals considering factors such as price fashion speed sustainable materials and innovation.
• Oversee timely deliveries sample processes pricing fashion trends speed quality and sustainability.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and other brands/assortment groups to optimize procurement procedures and secure the best production outcomes.
• Provide insights into customer group strategy within the country/region to internal stakeholders and guide them in building necessary capacity.
• You seek opportunities for cooperation and consolidation in your region and across other production offices.

Qualifications :

As a Senior Merchandiser you need to have strong analytical skills for anticipating potential challenges on a global level suggesting optimizations and resolving issues.

You have strong ownership and work independently. You help to informally direct and guide the team to achieve regional goals. Communication skills will also be a key element as you will need to build relationships globally across.

This role touches almost the entire supply chain so you need to proactively manage various stakeholders globally balancing different sometimes competingor even conflictingpriorities and somehow finding your way through it all to reach a mutually beneficial.

To be successful on this role you are expected to have:

. Product Development skills and

. Experience in Womenswear in similar brand(s) is a must.

Academic background in Textile Engineering is preferrable.
Effective time management - being stress-resistant and good at prioritization.
Have a flexible mindset positive attitude and be an inspirational team player.
Being fashion knowledgeable and having a genuine interest in fashion trends.

Additional Information :

At H&M Group were determined to create and maintain inclusive diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. 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.  

If all of this sounds like it might be your kind of thing then you should get in touch. Were more about personality and competence than qualifications so dont worry if your skills arent a perfect match. If your CV is selected then a recruiter will invite you for a phone / video call followed by a couple of interviews at one or more of our offices.  

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time