Job description
Do you want to join H&M on a journey, changing the way we define a seamless customer experience? If you feel that you have a genuine passion for growing businesses and see yourself in a role contributing to added customer value, a strong brand and digital growth. Then join us and take part in changing the way we work with omni.
H&M is on a journey to become a truly customer focused company. We´re putting our passion for the customer at centre, upgrading the customer experience and taking it to the next level. We´re changing our way of working to be able to offer our customers a seamless personalized shopping experience. This means that we need to accelerate our omni customer experience and put omni at the core of our business.
The Procurement role would sit within the Expansion Team. This team is here to support Meaningful Growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. We add new stores and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, relocations and consolidations.
As a Sales Market Procurement Specialist you will be responsible for securing, executing and managing the procurement strategy across the Construction and Facilities Department.
Key responsibilities including areas such as:
- You work in close collaboration with the Regional procurement specialist and sales market Construction and Facilities team to set the procurement strategy for your market and clearly communicate this to all stakeholders.
- You manage strategic governance of market agreements through constant follow-up and strategic meetings with major vendors.
- You set necessary goals and KPI’s for procurement and supplier management. You will drive actions and follow-up results on a quarterly and yearly basis.
- You manage, with support from Regional procurement specialist the procurement process for all suppliers contract which sit under the C&F department, the management and creation of procurement tools and templates such as the RFI/RFP templates and agreement templates.
- You educate your market team in the field of procurement and in negotiations.
- You are representing your sales market in procurement forums and act as a speaking partner towards other functions.
We see that you have a strong business mindset, communicate well and you are comfortable in making decisions. You have the ability to work strategically, by planning ahead and foresee opportunities and improvements. As a person you are analytical, methodical and conscientious. You enjoy teamwork and effectively collaborate with a group of diverse people in order to achieve set goals and targets.
Besides your personality we see that you have:
- Approximately 3 years of relevant working experience within the Procurement industry. A retail Construction and/or Facility Management background in procurement is preferred.
- Experience from setting and implementing procurement strategies.
- Experience from working in an international, matrix organization with several stakeholders and seniority levels.
This is an opportunity for open minded team player, that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking, wants 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.
Additional Information
The position is a permanent role based in our Support Office in London, UK on a local contract. You will report in the Head of Construction and Facilities doe UK&IE for the H&M Group.
If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are a match, send us your application by no later than the 14th May, and attach a detailed cover letter and you CV to your application.
H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive world. To us Diversity & Inclusion is about who we are and who we want to be