Head of Merchandising

As Head of Global Merchandising you will shape how our assortment comes to life across stores online and marketplaces driving selling profitability and a seamless customer experience.

This is a key leadership role for someone who combines strong commercial drive with a deep understanding of product inventory and people and who enjoys working crossfunctionally in a collaborative culture.

You will be part of the senior leadership team at ARKET reporting into the Head of Global Sales and CX. You will have 10 direct reports based in Stockholm and functional responsibility for the merchandising function in APAC.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the ARKET global merchandising strategy across stores online and marketplaces
• Drive selling profitability and stock efficiency through customer and datadriven decisions
• Own endtoend merchandising from assortment input and activation to stock optimization
• Set and execute activity and allocation strategies together with Buying Supply Chain and Retail/Online
• Ensure strong stocktosales performance speed and turnover across channels
• Lead coach and develop the omni merchandising team to grow performance and capability

Who Youll Work With

You will collaborate closely with Buying Assortment Supply Chain Warehouse Retail Operations Ecommerce CX and Controlling.

This role acts as a connector across the organization bringing together product customer and commercial perspectives. You will lead a team of 10 merchandisers working endtoend across channels formats and markets in a culture characterized by trust respect and strong collaboration.

Qualifications :

• Experience in merchandising within fashion retail preferably in an omni or multichannel environment
• Previous leadership experience with responsibility for developing and leading teams
• Strong commercial and analytical skills including inventory management forecasting and stock optimization
• Experience working crossfunctionally with Buying Supply Chain and Retail / Online
• Confidence working with merchandising tools and systems in a complex retail setup
• Fluent English written and spoken

Leadership capabilities

• Purposeful Sets clear direction and communicates a compelling inspiring vision.
• Passionate Customer centred and committed to excellence resilience and continuous improvement.
• Outcome driven with strong prioritisation collaboration and execution skills.
• Commercially creative and agile able to solve problems adapt quickly and make sound decisions.
• Caring authentic inclusive leader who develops teams builds trust and gives honest constructive feedback.

Additional Information :

This is a full time temporary 12-month contract based at our Head Office in Stockholm 

If you feel this opportunity is exciting feel free to apply by sending in yourCV in Englishas soon as possible but no later than 28/08/26

Due to data policies we only accept applications through our career page.

We value collaboration and believe that great ideas thrive when we work closely together. Therefore this role is primarily office-based with four days per week at the office to foster teamwork and engagement. One day per week youll have the flexibility to work remotely.

Please note this position is offered on a local contract therefore you should have the legal right to work in Sweden before applying. Other candidates are welcome to register their interest and we will keep you in mind for future opportunities.  

WHO WE ARE

ARKET is a modern-day market with a Nordic soul offering a mix of fashion homeware and a café while having quality sustainability and transparency at the core of our business. ARKETs mission is to democratise quality through widely accessible well-made durable products designed to be used and loved for a long time. Learn more about ARKET here.  

WHY YOULL LOVE WORKING HERE

We offer all our employees attractive benefits with broad development opportunities. All our employees receive a staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and 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 this Sweden-based colleagues also receive:

• 30 days holiday
• A collective agreement which includes pension and life insurance
• Wellness benefit 4000kr/year
• Benify Benefits Portal
• JOIN US

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 its our people who make us who we are.

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.  

We look forward to hearing from you 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time