Innovative Data Scientist to the Laboratory

Company Description

At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET, Afound, Treadler and Itsapark — offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries.

But design is so much more than just products; it’s about clever design processes, efficient product flows, creating experiences that enrich, and smart solutions that benefit all our customers.

Sustainability is always at the core of our business. Not only because we like to do what’s right — but it’s also beneficial for our business. We will continue to push for change and lead the way towards a more inclusive and sustainable fashion future.

Do you want to join us? We will trust you with great responsibility right from the start, reward a passionate mindset and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit. When you start a career with H&M Group, there’s no limit to where it can take you

Job Description

With over 171,000 colleagues from different backgrounds across the world, H&M group is dedicated to creating the best experience for our people as well as our customers. We share a value-driven way of working, based on a fundamental respect for the individual. Our shared values help create an open, dynamic and down-to-earth company culture where anything is possible and you can truly belong, being truly yourself.

Are you passionate about data and how it can support us in challenging our business to better decisions? Do you want to help shape the future of our brands and industry? Do you like innovation and developing new ideas and thinking? If the answer is “Yes”, then this opportunity might be something for you! We are currently looking for our next Data Scientist within our global innovation hub.

In your role you will work in collaboration with our business and engineering people both within your team and supporting teams, to help prepare the H&M Group for the future by challenging the way we do business. Often the work requires solving complex problems and to provide an outside-in perspective on our business, industry, society and technology.

Furthermore, you will: 

- Build relations within the start-up world, research trends and gain insights on where our industry is heading as well as test new ways of doing business. You will be exploring large data sets, trying out new algorithms, feature engineering, testing and evaluating model outputs, deploying the solutions for production usage and scale out to the comprehensive fashion network of H&M

- Develop an understanding of business problems and formulate short and long term solutions to them

- Support your colleagues and business stakeholders in understanding algorithms and decisions made by AI systems

- Combine, explore and draw insights from data. Often large and complex data assets from both internal and external sources.

- Develop tools and framework to address common needs in machine learning project like model traceability, feature reuse, A/B testing, etc.

- Work in cross-functional agile team of highly skilled engineers, data scientists, business stakeholders to build the AI ecosystem within H&M

Qualifications

To be able to succeed in this role, we believe you have a strong foundation in analytics, mathematical modeling, computer science, and math - coupled with a strong business sense.

You proactively fetch information from various sources and analyze it to explore new ideas and ways of working.

Who you are:

We believe that you:

- Have a degree within applied mathematics, statistics, physics or engineering or similar field (e.g. machine learning) and a strong will to continuously develop your skillset

- Are a hands-on person and a problem solver, you thrive in solving practical business problems with data and machine learning models

- You have the ability to understand business requirements and generate insights and you have strong communication skills, orally and in writing. You are able to drive forward the best solutions

- Have at least 2+ years of working experience in data science, analytics or similar areas

- Have strong coding skills in Python and knowledge in Computer vision/NLP is a bonus

As a person/We also believe you to you…

- Are a strong team player and a true people’s person

- Are self-directed with the ability to navigate within the organization to ensure best outcome

- Are result oriented with a strong drive, daring to challenge and take initiatives

- Are curious and flexible with a can-do attitude

Additional Information

What we can offer

At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be yourself and have room to grow. You will be part of an important project at H&M with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you will find plenty of room to grow. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin or background.

Do you think we are a match? We hope so!

This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible but 12th of December at the latest. We screen applications on a continuous basis. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Talent Acquisitions Partner Lovisa Ermell at [email protected]