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Senior Merchandiser - Kids socks & tights

H&M

Company Description

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M here. 

Job Description

As a Senior Merchandiser, your focus is on delivering the optimal product for your designated customer group. You take full ownership of implementing and ensuring the success of the merchandising strategy tailored to your specific customer segment, section, department, or product type. Your role involves overseeing a structured workflow to guarantee the delivery of the most compelling customer proposition. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Understand the competitive environment and strike a balance between customer expectations and company strategy objectives. 
  • Serve as the primary liaison with existing and potential suppliers, fostering strong relationships and monitoring their performance. Take full responsibility for developing suppliers to meet customer and product specifications. 
  • Manage supplier relations to align with short and long-term production goals, considering factors such as price, fashion, speed, sustainable materials, and innovation. 
  • Oversee timely deliveries, sample processes, pricing, fashion trends, speed, quality, and sustainability. 
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and other brands/assortment groups to optimize procurement procedures and secure the best production outcomes. 
  • Provide insights into customer group strategy within the country/region to internal stakeholders and guide them in building necessary capacity. 

Qualifications

As Senior Merchandiser, you work closely with the Merchandising Manager towards achieving team goals and establishing and maintaining the lines of communication within the team. 

  • At least 10 years related experience in order follow-up & price negotiation and product knowledge 
  • Maintain direct partnership and effective cooperation with all merchandising teams and stakeholders. 
  • Understand the supply chain strategy and secure a seamless production flow for the brand. 
  • Seek opportunities for cooperation and consolidation in your region and across other production offices. 
  • Academic background in Textile Engineering is preferrable. 
  • Effective time management - being stress-resistant and good at prioritization. 
  • Have a flexible mindset, positive attitude, and be an inspirational team player. 
  • Being fashion knowledgeable and having a genuine interest in fashion trends. 
  • Excellent communication skills as you will need to build relationships globally across. 

What you need to succeed: 

  • Strong analytical skills for anticipating potential challenges on a global level, suggesting optimizations, and resolving issues. 
  • Have strong ownership and can work independently. 
  • You create agile and autonomous teams and focus on the team’s continuous improvement. You help to informally direct and guide the team to achieve regional goals. 
  • Proactively manage various stakeholders globally, balancing different, sometimes competing—or even conflicting— priorities and somehow finding your way through it all to reach a mutually beneficial. 

Additional Information

This is a full-time position, starting as soon as possible according to the agreement. The role is an on-site position, based in our office in Shanghai, China. Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, the cover letter is not needed. 

Benefits 

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. 

Inclusion & Diversity 

H&M is a part of H&M Group. 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. 

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases. 

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