Merchandise Manager

As Merchandise Manager - Baby, you will spearhead the implementation of our merchandising strategy for your concept across various channels, including online, in-store, and emerging platforms within Region EAS. Leading a dynamic team of merchandising leads, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams such as digital, commercial and visual as well as global counterparts in business units and assortment office, you enhance customer satisfaction, optimize inventory, and achieve substantial revenue growth.

You are customer centric and sales-driven professional with a strong commercial awareness and salesmanship back-bone. Thriving in a fast pace and agile environment, you love working with the product and to set a plan of how to optimize the supply and demand in line with the global assortment and merchandising strategy. You are leader that strives to strengthen team and foster collaboration across channels, roles and functions, empowering strong collaboration and alignment between channels & teams to become more customer focused.

**Key responsibilities**
- Being a regional expert of your concept, you understand current and future customer demand as well as is the expert on your market, staying up to date with competitive landscape in terms of product, fashion, quality, price and activation.
- You analyze product data and provide key actionable conclusions to the regional organization, as well as visit physical store and digital platforms regularly to identify potential and follow up on commercial strategy implementation.
- Driving your concept, securing and optimizing commercial product offer, you maximalize short and long-term profitable growth for your concept in the region by optimizing global assortment strategy, influence price, quantities, income periods, assortment width and managing regional product lifecycle with the assortment team.
- You optimize net selling by establishing clear commercial priorities per channel, but identifying and acting on the sales opportunities / threats, as well as influencing and executing global product strategy from business units and global merchandising. Set stock freshness targets, strategy for commercial impact, size availability and product activation strategy in and post season; reacting with in and post season inventory management and omni key product categories based on in-season performance.

**Qualifications**
To be successful in the role as Merchandise Manager - Baby, you should have strong commercial focus and are insight and data driven, with proven ability to drive results and work towards goals. You should have a broad merchandising knowledge and commercial experience that understands the total picture from customer demands on our offers.

**What you need to succeed**:

- Economics or Business degree/relevant qualifications.
- Strong and proven leadership experience with a focus to build highly performing teams in a dynamic environment.
- Sales driven and have a strong commercial awareness and salesmanship.
- Strong in delivering results and have exceptional analytical skills and technical knowledge to operate and is up to date with merchandising systems, tools and reports. Ability to link customer insights knowledge into mid
- and long-term commercial actions; and have deep understanding of product, stock and product lifecycle management.

**Additional Information**
This is a **full-time position**, reporting to the Regional Head of Merchandising.

Specific work location will be discussed during the interview process.

**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, ARKET, Afound. In 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, 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.

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