Company Description
At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, &Other Stories, H&M Home and ARKET — offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries.
At H&M Production we transform design ideas into real products. The direct point of contact for local suppliers in over 20 sourcing markets, we ensure that top-quality products are made as sustainably and cost-effectively as possible.
Job Description
As a Product Technologist you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers in product quality, fit and technical risk assessment on our products.
Working with suppliers you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers towards self-reliance in the product flow in connection to your assortment needs.
Working closing with the necessary stakeholders your role is to ensure we deliver the best product aligned with our business idea.
You play a key role in contributing towards securing best product from a customer perspective. Working with the global and regional teams you are responsible for co-executing the market development plans and supplier & product strategy on your product categories.
Working with our suppliers and hand in hand with other relevant internal stakeholders you are responsible for driving and developing product development and production capability within quality, fit and consumption optimization.
Qualifications
As a Product Technologist it is important to have;
- A strong understanding of customer
- End to end responsibility from product development to delivered quality
- High knowledge of technical fit & size
- Knowledge of calculating consumptions
- Strong ownership and efficient communication to achieve all
- Strong know how on Swimwear and preferably on Socks&Tights; Underwear and Nightwear
As a Product Technologist you have extensive technical and operational production knowledge on Socks &Tights. Along with a very good level of knowledge and understanding in fit, grading, pattern construction, consumption, customer, material and cost, that you can rely on and ability to help grow and develop our business and supplier capability.
Collaboration and teamwork are key; you should work hand in hand with Product Development teams and other stakeholders to co-execute the strategies and activities that are set.
You need to be a strong communicator, using these skills to manage and educate a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
Business minded, you have good local market knowledge and the ability to seek out further opportunities that could strengthen our customer offer.
You act with a high level of professionalism at all times, while working daily as a role model towards our H&M values.
Additional Information
At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. 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.
If all of this sounds like it might be your kind of thing, then you should get in touch. We’re more about personality and competence than qualifications, so don’t worry if your skills aren’t a perfect match. If your CV is selected then a recruiter will invite you for a phone / video call, followed by a couple of interviews at one or more of our offices.