Visual Concept Manager (1 year Maternity cover), H&M Head Office

Visual Concept Manager (1 year Maternity cover), H&M Head Office

Are you interested in being part of one of the Business Unit teams based in Stockholm, developing the customer experience? Do you have a drive to increase sales by creating an inspiring, relevant and convenient shopping experiences through visual merchandising? Then you might be the person we are looking for!

We are looking for an experienced senior visual merchandiser to join one of the Business Units as Visual Concept Manager. As a Visual Concept Manager, you will set a strategic plan that drives visual development to support reaching the sales and profits goals in your Business Unit. You will work in close collaboration with other functions, such as Buying Office, Merchandising and Marketing, to create the best customer offer in store. You will support your strategy through production of the commercial tools - Commercial Info, Seasonal Info and weekly sales info. You will then collaborate with Global Sales to support best implementation and future commercial set up. Your results will be seen by customers around the world - you can really make a difference!

As a candidate you should have proven visual merchandising experience, leadership of teams and an esteemed eye for trends, current fashion and brand understanding. You should be motivated by developing and improving visual presentation of a customer group, focused on creating the best customer offer.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
The job of a Visual Concept Manager comes with a lot of ownership, responsibility and fun! Your main responsibilities include;
. Setting a strategic visual development strategy for all concepts with your Business Unit.
. Secure visual merchandising is in-line with brand DNA, identity and company vision.
. Increase sales performance within your Business Unit concepts by pro-actively initiating, testing and implementing commercial ideas.
. Set the commercial plan per season, cross functionally within your Business Unit, aligning expectations and workload with Global Sales.
. Create and develop the visual merchandising guidelines for your concepts.
. Develop your visual team, actively increasing their knowledge in visual merchandising, commercial thinking and leadership.
. Staying engaged with current fashion and the competition to develop garment presentation.
. Seeking feedback from our different markets to develop presentation further to create the best customer offer.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE
You are a sales-minded, social, open, communicative and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism. You also:
. Have senior Visual Merchandising management experience, a minimum of 3 years, from a global retail company.
. Proven leadership skills and past responsibility of managing teams.
. Are customer focused with a commercial mind-set.
. Have strong planning, organizing and prioritizing skills to manage a high workload.
. Have strong communication skills (verbal & written), fluent English is a must.