Merchandise Specialist

Company Description
**At H&M we are on an exciting journey to become the leading destination for style, creativity and culture, empowering leaders and engaging teams. Customers and colleagues are the core of our business, in line with our transformation, we want to achieve clear ownership, fuel our salesmanship and innovative minds, enabling agility to build on our passion for customers and colleagues throughout the organization.**

**Job Description**:
As Merchandise Specialist you drive execution of commercial agenda and merchandising strategy together with commercial SM team and Areas to meet or exceed financial targets.

You provide input to Region about local retail situation, customer needs and shopping behaviour and adapt commercial plan accordingly.

You ensure that the market organization is up to date with assortment knowledge and provide commercial follow up.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Implement and execute
- Secure execution of regional guidelines related to assortment
- Be up to date with regional assortment and supply & demand strategy
- Follow-up on store stock and resolve issues together with regional team

Ensure local relevance
- Know your market retail situation and customer profile
- Give input to Regional team about local relevance and market potentials from price and assortment perspective
- Optimize local selling peaks driven by calendar and customer shopping behavior - Provide commercial team with constant & structured sales follow-up
- Review your commercial plan periodically and set improvements for next year.
- Adapt regional commercial plan to local needs with support from Regional visual team

Support and develop
- Provide assortment knowledge and merchandising training to market organization
- Update commercial team with assortment decision and actions initiated by region
- Close collaboration with Store Operation team to secure garment flow execution
- Follow-up commercial results and KPIs and benchmark between Areas and Stores
- Follow up on local adaptation of regional commercial planning,

**Qualifications**:

- University Degree, preferably in Business, Economics or Fashion
- Strong data management skills - analytical, structured, ability to synthesize information and draw conclusions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluent in English
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Very good skills in MS Office, especially in Excel and PowerPoint
- A strong understanding of the consumer we serve
- Proactive and able to drive initiatives/ideas into tangible sales results
- 2+ years of experience in Retail
- Understanding of Supply Chain and garment flow complexity
- Up to date with store operation knowledge
- Omni retail understanding
- Overall assortment knowledge

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