Application Specialist – Inventory optimization – Products in Store

Job Description


Do you want to empower H&M Group to drive an efficient and sustainable tech development within Inventory Optimization? Are you a creative Application Specialist passionate about solving problems, communicating with many people and lead rollouts that make an impact for our customers on a global scale? If the answer is yes, then this is the opportunity for you!
About the product area
Inventory Optimization is a part of the Customer Fulfilment domain. The domain responsibility covers solutions and improvements from allocation, through stock optimization and fulfillment of orders to customers, stores, and partners. The product area Inventory Optimization’s missions is to make all our inventory available to our customers in the most profitable and sustainable way possible. There are currently 12 products within the area.
About the product
Products in Store aims to fulfill H&M Group’s expectation on product availability and transparency in our stores, by providing intelligent replenishment and pick logic with intuitive, available, and up to date tools and technology to manage stock in stores.
The product team are working on exciting projects to better utilize our stores to fulfill our goal of a true omni channel experience for our customers. The initiatives include Fulfill from Store/Buy Online Pick up In Store (BOPIS) and In Store Replenishment. The product’s foundation is H&M Group’s use of RFID across our supply chain, and we help drive the adoption of new use cases of RFID within the group.
About the role
As an Application Specialist, you will join a highly motivated cross-functional product team that are working together to achieve the team’s mission.
The role holds a broad spectrum from functional knowledge, app configuration, test and stakeholder management. You will work in an agile environment, in a small and friendly group, which is handling the services on a global level. This will cover both new development, roll out of new features and markets, as well as maintenance of the product.
You will embark on a journey that will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail and learn. Furthermore, you will:
Work mainly with collecting, investigating, and specifying requirements for the best new solutions for the product
Test and secure quality of new implementations
Configure the solutions and apps for new features and roll outs of new markets
Be extensively involved in communication with a large group of stakeholders and vendors
Planning, designing, scheduling, testing, deploying and controlling software releases
Translate product strategy and objectives into world-class maintainable and scalable solutions
Collaborate and co-create closely with your product owner and other teams
Support others and actively drive knowledge sharing and collaboration

Your mindset and skills
We believe you can navigate and build relationships up, down and across the organization, and manage expectations with stakeholders. That you can tackle strategy and day-to-day execution and have a “roll up your sleeves” attitude. Attention to detail is key and we believe you have great problem-solving skills. You are innovative, curious, have a willingness to learn and are a team player.
You are an important player in this transformation, and so we believe you are dynamic, collaborative, and curious and able to work in an environment that is not always formalized. You are willing to take own responsibility and initiatives as well as be a team player.
You have previous experience from working in complex setups with many stakeholders and distributed teams. You understand the concept of integrated platforms and you know how to translate business objectives and visualize technical roadmaps.
We believe that to be successful you need to:
Have extensive experience requirement handling
Understand and analyze complex information
Be able to explain complex IT solutions to non-technical persons
Be able to clearly explain and translate business requirements into IT requirements
Have experience from integrations and complex IT solutions
Lead workshops and handle a lot of stakeholder from different countries and competence backgrounds
Understand people psychology and to connect to people to encourage new behaviours
Take responsibility, work proactively and continuously improve activities in complex, quickly transforming environments
Be able to work independently as well as being a team player

Requirements:
More than 3 years of requirement handling
Broad knowledge in test
Release planning
Agile / Scrum ways of working
Good communication & presentation skills in both spoken and written English (Swedish is a plus)

Nice to have:
SQL
Experience from Retail

It is beneficial if you have a technical background within development.
Note that you will learn this application when starting the job.
Interested? Come join us!
This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV as soon as possible, no later than 12th of November. If you have any question you are welcome to contact Anders Arvén, at Anders.Arven@hm.com or Kristina Dybeck, at Kristina.Dybeck@hm.com.
For this position we are looking for someone already based in Sweden or EU. The role will require to travel occasionally to H&M stores for a good understanding of the business processes.




Additional Information


About H&M Group
We are a family of brands, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. We develop tech solutions and products for the entire value chain for the H&M Group with the purpose to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Working in multiple areas of the tech field we operate at large scale, from AI, data, and business development to engineering and testing - we are influencing and engaging millions of customers across 77 markets.
Why join us?
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. You are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
Interested? Come join us!