Merchandise Manager

Company Description
**H&M is on a journey to becoming the leading destination for style, creativity and culture. We want to enable, empower and engage teams while building on our passion for being the truly customer-centric company we are. On this journey we want to encourage our teams to learn and grow meaningfully, unleashing their full potential - fulfilling our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), we are a place of possibilities and where you can Be Yourself & More.**

**Job Description**:
**As an expert of the Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam sales market, the Merchandise Manager’s main responsibility is to drive your concept by securing the best customer offer and by setting and driving the right stock, distribution and commercial strategy for your concept. Ultimately, you will be responsible for enabling a great customer experience for our customers and driving meaningful growth.**

**_ Key responsibilities:_**
**Drive your concept**
- Optimize and follow up net selling on your concept through setting clear commercial focuses and quantified goals.
- Adapt global commercial believes to local needs throughout the commercial planning on concept level.
- Collaborate cross functionally and act on sales opportunities/ threats together with your country sales team.
- Supply and educate your market organization with commercial focuses in order to set the right priorities to drive your concept both short and long term.

**Set and drive the right stock strategy for your concept**
- Set allocation and stock management strategy together with Area Teams and Supply Chain Merchandisers.
- Maximize the selling potential of your concept by securing the right space management in store according to the current stock situation and sales drivers.
- Secure impact in stores by matching the store stock levels with the local sales drivers and key products.
- Responsible for reduction cost of your concept. Optimize the effect of reductions through sale and activities.
- Run a concept strategy to drive sales net growth that is aligned with your quantified goals.

**Create the best customer offer**
- Know your market: retail situation, fashion level, competitors.
- Know your customer expectations and the price they are willing to pay for each key product at any given time.
- Influence prices, quantities, and overall buying level in collaboration with the country buying team.

**Qualifications**:
**Being part of this journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for open minded team players that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking want to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work towards goals and go for it with everything you’ve got.**

**Besides your personality we see that**:

- Adequate experience in retail or FMCG merchandising or equivalent field.
- Have advance knowledge in Microsoft Excel as well as Microsoft office apps.
- Strong commercial and analytical mind with eye for details and commercial opportunities - confident with drafting and presenting business proposals to stakeholders.
- Critical thinking with a strategic mindset and can work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Strong learning and growth mindset and is able to work independently as well as team setting.
- You are people centric and enjoys coaching and sharing of merchandising knowledge to team member from all levels within the organization.
- Effective and charismatic communicator that can communicate in a convincing and inspiring way.
- Motivated individual who is not afraid to take initiative and make decision under mínimal guidance.

Additional Information

This position is based in Singapore Support Office and will report to Head of Merchandising.