Women's Accessories Designer- Handbags

Are you a creative and experienced Designer with a passion for handbags

Were looking for a Handbag Designer with a strong fashion sensibility clear vision and a sharp commercial eye to help drive our Womens Accessories assortment forward.

Youll thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment working with youthful elevated fashion products designed to welcome everyone. Our target customer is a fashion-aspirer woman who wants the latest in style from timeless essentials to must-have statement pieces.

In this role youll identify and develop key handbag products translating trends and insights into a relevant commercial and fashion-forward assortment. Youll bring strong design process skills confidence in building cohesive collections and a deep understanding of materials construction and quality aligned with the collection vision.

Youll clearly communicate your creative ideas with both fashion authority and commercial focus working close to season with a proactive high-energy approach. Collaboration is key youll build and maintain strong relationships across internal teams and with external partners.

As part of a global team youll help deliver standout handbag collections across all H&M omni channels worldwide. Your design handwriting will demonstrate a high fashion level strong trend awareness and a consistent focus on our target customer all while maintaining cost consciousness throughout the design process.

This role calls for energy creativity and leadership with experience in coaching and inspiring others toward commercial success.

If handbags are your passion and youre ready to shape collections that customers around the world love wed love to hear from you.

Qualifications :

• A minimum of a BA/MA or equivalent experience in Accessories and/or handbags.
• Minimum of 3 4 years work experience as a Designer with a strength in overall collection building
• Background from an aspirational global brand or retailer
• Attention to detail and construction
• A visionary mindset with true passion for womens fashion current and future trends
• A strong customer focus and commercial mindset for the H&M customer
• Experience working with suppliers/factories in Asia and Europe
• Strong skills in and used to working in Adobe Creative Suite programs
• 3D is meriting
• Demonstrated communication skills and true collaborative team player
• Leadership and coaching mindset
• Independent and proactive approach
• Able to set priorities with an organized & structured approach
• Flexible mindset and adaptable to changes in a fast moving & growing industry
• Fluent in English (Swedish not necessary)

Additional Information :

This position is based in Stockholm. You will report to the department Assortment Designer

If your experience skills and ambitions are right for this role please send your application asap including CV and relevant portfolio work (pdf max 10mb/uploading) Portfolio should include vision/mood boards full design process and final collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to the aspirational H&M Womens target customer. We would like see work that shows your creative aspirational side and also your sense for commercial fashion.

For any internal applicants please have a dialogue with your current manager before applying.

Benefits
We offer all our employees at H&M Group 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 addition to our staff discount all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group were 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. 

Company Description
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.  Learn more about H & M here.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time