Brand & Product Manager to H&M Beauty Private Label

Job Description

H&M BEAUTY is capturing the enormous potential of the beauty market by becoming the world's most fashionable beauty destination. On this journey, we have reimagined our makeup line, continuously elevating our private label assortment to include makeup, beauty tools, body care, and fragrance. We also focus on building a fashionable, credible and complete beauty destination by complementing our in-house offerings with the latest external beauty brands, enabling our customers to complement their fashion looks with top beauty products. 

Do you want to be part of our new and disruptive global beauty destination & brand where your actions make a difference? Do you want to take on an exciting opportunity and build our future beauty assortment? Then you might be our new Brand & Product Manager! 

What You’Ll Do​

As Brand & Product Manager, you are accountable for the beauty segment/category from idea to customer, through the whole product development process. This includes setting the global strategy and developing the best product and assortment (OMNI), always with the customer in focus, in order to maximize growth and profitability, short and long-term.  

In this role you will lead, coach and develop an ambitious and entrepreneurial team as well as being a crucial part of identifying business opportunities and capture them. You will set the brief for the product/assortment and communicate the briefs main objectives in a clear and easy way to all stakeholders, always looking for constant improvements working agile to find the optimal way forward.  

You set the strategies for optimized buying together with, Jr Buyer, Planner, Business Controller and Section Head and you are responsible to drive the product development together with our Production Offices. In addition to this you will drive overall communication strategy and timeline towards stakeholders, secure the buying strategy, speed and production capacity. 

Who You Are​

Do you have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and dare to innovate and challenge status quo? Do you have a creative mindset but also a hands-on approach to get things done and leaderships skills to make people in cross-functional teams work towards a common goal? Would you say you can communicate vision and strategy, prioritize and take decisions? Do you on top of this have a great interest and solid background in beauty? Then we think that you will be a great fit for our ambitious team!  
 
We are looking for you who have: 

• A university degree in Business Administration, Buying, Product development Marketing or equivalent. 
• 3-5 years’ working experience of working as Brand Manager or within Product/assortment development 
• Extensive experience working with product development 
• Experience within Beauty industry is meritorious 
• Proven track record of creating sales and business results.  
• Strong customer and commercial focus  
• Delivering strategies and solutions that drive business results 
• Setting and following up KPI’s to demonstrate return of investment 

WHO WE ARE  
 
H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.    

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.    

Join Us​

Additional Information:

This is a temporary, approx. 1 year (parental cover), full time position in the new H&M Beauty Office at Jakobsbergsgatan in Stockholm city center. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV in English as soon as possible. Interviews will be held continuously. (For internal candidates, please initiate a dialogue with you manager before applying.)  If you are currently in a permanent employment with H&M you will keep your permanent employment even if you take on a temporary position for a limited time. 

Benefits:

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. 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. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP.  

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.   

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.  

​ Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.​