IT Project Manager to Buying Office

Do you want to be a part of building future business planning solutions where you as a Project Manager make a difference for our success?

We are now recruiting a Project Manager for challenging and fun projects at our IT department and the division Buying Office and Production Office! As a Project Manager you will work at a global IT department, with many new initiatives and projects where you have the opportunity to join at an early stage. You will have a great level of independence in your role and we expect you to act and be confident in your leadership.

You will join a delivery area responsible for IT solutions that support the planning processes within H&M’s Buying Office, e.g. budget planning, assortment planning and product quantity planning. Our systems are developed in-house, based on .Net and web technologies. We have several different applications running on a shared platform. We plan and manage our work through Agile methods. During the last months we have implemented the Scaled Agile Framework method, reducing our delivery lead times significantly.

As Project Manager you will lead and secure the delivery of our projects. You have the ability to understand our business and complex environment and you are an inspiring leader who motivates your project team. In your role you will interact with many IT stakeholders as well as work closely with our business representatives.

H&M is an exciting place for an IT career! We open up at least one new store every weekday somewhere around the globe at the same time as we’re expanding online. This requires a lot from our IT-solutions with fun challenges along the way! We offer a dynamic and creative work environment where we as a team grow together. As one of the world’s largest fashion retailers we can offer you endless career opportunities.

Your responsibilities

The job of a Project Manager at H&M comes with a lot of responsibility – and lots of fun. Your to do-list includes:

- Lead, coach and motivate a cross-functional development team
- Plan, organize, follow up and deliver pre-studies and development projects, according to plan and including budget responsibility
- Work in close collaboration with our business representatives to capture their needs and requirements
- Cooperate with our IT Service Responsible, surrounding Project Managers and System Responsibles and other stakeholders, around the delivery of your project
- Responsible for implementation of IT solutions based on .Net and web technologies
- Responsible for the whole project cycle, including follow up of deliveries and hand over to maintenance

Just like everyone at H&M, we believe you are a social, open, communicative sales-minded and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism.
And your skills include:

- Minimum 2 years of experience from IT Project Management within application development, in-house developed systems
- Strong leadership skills
- Experience from conducting pre-studies
- Experience from managing projects that have integrations and cross dependencies with many parts of the organisation
- Experience from working with PPS or other project method
- Experience from Agile development methods such as Kanban or Scrum.
- Strong communication skills with great experience in conducting meetings and workshops as well as interacting with steering groups
- Good Swedish and English in speech and writing

Experience from working with requirements analysis and/or application maintenance is an advantage. An extra plus if you have previous experience from delivery via distributed teams (offshore).

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB is an international fashion company. Today 4200 stores are spread across 64 markets worldwide. The IT department is an important part of the company’s business and carries out operations, software development and maintenance of the company’s systems and business applications. Our goal is to supply as cost efficient IT solutions as possible in order to offer our customers “Fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way”. The IT-department is located in Stockholm and Borås and conduct business virtually all over the globe. The H&M group includes in addition to H&M the brands COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, H&M Home and & Other Stories. As an IT-department, we work with all brands.