Company Description

As one of the world’s largest fashion companies with more than 150,000 employees worldwide, H&M is an exciting and dynamic place to pursue a career within the fashion industry. H&M group comprises nine independent brands: H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, Cheap Monday, H&M Home, & Other Stories and ARKET. We have over 4,000 stores across more than 77 markets worldwide. 

Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design. 

The H&M Group’s Tech organization is increasing its focus on leveraging AI to drive Automation to deliver business results.  We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values, and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.  The team aims to continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology.  To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech will deliver technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands!

• Would you like to work in an internationally agile-driven environment on solutions used in various parts of the world?
• Do you consider yourself a proactive, self-driven colleague who can take full ownership of the initiative working both independently and as part of a group? 
• Do you believe “Colleagues are our most valuable asset”? 
   

If the answer is “Oh yes!”, then this opportunity might be something for you! 

Job Description

Develop and lead a holistic strategy and product vision in support of the mission for Business Automation for the H&M enterprise. This includes definition for the value stream measurement to the repeatable product definition to the assurance of the product quality and delivery.

Core Responsibilities includes but is not limited to:  

1. Drive and lead the design a multi-year data and product strategy to create new business automation solutions and drive measurable competitive advantage for H&M. Determine the investments necessary in terms of people and technology to achieve these objectives. 
2. Explore data engineering, data science and AI developments and translate these to the business automation strategy to keep H&M on the cutting edge of automation. 
3. Effective stakeholder management, balancing the prioritization of top-down strategic initiatives with bottom-up technology requirements. 
4. Explore the ecosystem, both internal and external, to introduce fresh data insights into both IT and the business. Implement tailored use cases and take the lead in disseminating research findings throughout H&M. 
5. Drive and articulate the broader need of data engineering and data science and aligned re-usable and scalable tooling for implementations; deploy world-class data and AI capabilities 
6. Collaborate with Tech stakeholders and business units to harmonize the data agenda and drive data program standardization, data adoption and effective data implementations 
7. Champion data and AI opportunities to the business leadership team, fostering collaboration to shape H&M’s data narrative.   
8. Collaborate with business leaders to craft a unified data portfolio and projects that align with the broader IT and H&M strategic roadmaps. Transition from reactive, static reports to a federated data model and promote self-service data consumption 
9. Be part of shaping and continuously developing H&M Group’s strategy for AI.
10. Provide strategic support to the business in implementing AI technology across the organization. This includes assessing vendors and technical solutions and providing support in decisions on build vs buy.
11. Research and analyze the AI landscape, including emerging trends, technology development, vendor ecosystem, and technology impact to informed strategic decisions.
12. Foster relationships with AI vendors, research institutions, and industry groups to stay ahead of the technological curve. Provide expertise to upskilling initiatives. Educate and mentor colleagues to increase awareness and knowledge on AI capabilities, potential and limitations.
13. Broad technology skills in data, AI/ML and ability to translate knowledge into solutions which transform the customer’s experience. 
14. Leadership (Vision, strategy and business alignment, people management, communication, influencing others, managing change). Overseeing an area with proven achievements in IT Business Partnership and Relationship Management, Value Realization 
15. Experience of designing, and evaluating organizational transformations and delivering large scale change that adds value from data and information 
16. Guide Product teams on buy vs build concept, act as a strategic partner to our business stakeholders 
17. Experience implementing cloud economics, value demonstration, and measurement within cloud economics.   

Qualifications

1. A master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or engineering is required 
2. 15+ years of data and analytics leadership experience 
3. Open to candidates from any industry, prior experience in retail, brands, or e-commerce would be an added advantage
4. Technical experience across a variety of analytics functions and capacities 
5. Experience designing and leading or rolling out product oriented methodology across teams 
6. Experience working in globally matrixed organizations. A demonstrated ability to unify and lead teams within a matrixed organization. 
7. Experience managing a large portfolio of data products, analytical/AI products and data platforms 
8. Proven experience of providing strategic and technical leadership to large complex organizations 
9.  Experience in leading large teams at scale in complex organizations 
10. Established partnerships with top academic institutions or industry/domain leaders 
11. Referenceable leadership, management, or key influencer experiences required 
12. Previous experience managing large programs and budgets preferred 
13. An individual who embodies and exemplifies the core values of H&M in both their actions and communication 
14. Experienced within Agile methods and leading Scrum teams 

Additional Information

Inclusion & Diversity 
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 who 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 to your application as it often contains information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.

This is a fulltime position with placement in Bangalore. If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please apply with CV in English. 
 
Please do not send applications to individual email address, due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page. We look forward to receiving your application!