Merchandise Manager

Company Description
- Make your mark within a leading global fashion company
- A place where you can express yourself & feel like you truly belong
- Fun, collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive benefits

At H&M we believe it's possible for you to find what you love. We offer you space to create and room to grow — a place where you can belong and truly be yourself. You'll join a team that is full of life in a company that feels as good as it looks. At H&M, we believe it's possible because together we make it possible.

**Be yourself & more at H&M**

**Job Description**:
As a Merchandise Manager,** **you drive and set the sales market omni commercial and customer agenda together with, Customer activation, e-com counterparts, and other teams within the commercial team, based on the global/regional plan for your concept. You are accountable for omni strategies and targets and driving total omni strategy development. You work towards aligned and cross-functional goals, driving omni sales performance and customer centricity in all parts of your work.

**Some of the key responsibilities of this role**:

- Accountable for omni net sales for your omni customer concept in the sales market - ensure full understanding of your sales market sales situation through omni sales and omni customer behaviour analysis.
- Together with HoM and Demand and Supply, align on omni stock management strategy which provides best customer service and optimize availability for your customer group.
- Together with the Store Portfolio Merchandise Manager, set strategy leading to a modern store portfolio for your Customer Group
- Set omni customer and commercial plans for you concept together with team counterparts and Customer activation, Marketing, Online merchandising, based on the overall commercial plan for the region.
- Set strategy for assortment exposure in media channels in collaboration with Customer activation to optimize stock performance, reductions, and customer experience.
- Conduct benchmarking from both omni product and omni commercial aspects - know the sales market and customer's needs, conduct competitor overview and analysis
- Plan, manage and follow up sales, stock, and reduction levels in your sales markets.
- Secure omni product impact, and drive in season stock management by matching the store and online stock levels with the sales market sales drivers
- You are accountable for omni strategies and goals and driving total omni strategy development

**Qualifications**:

- +2 years of experience within merchandising, buying and assortment or similar
- Strong analytical skills and technical ability in order to operate and be up to date with merchandising systems, tools, reports.
- Meriting: Omni retail knowledge, Product category management, Planning, buying, stock
- and product lifecycle-management
- Understand how to collaborate cross functionally within local, Regional and Global functions to achieve results.
- Understanding of supply chain and garment flow complexity
- Retail interest and clear understanding how the physical store and online channels can contribute to a seamless shopping experience.
- Strong analytical skills and technical ability in order to operate and be up to date with merchandising systems, tools, reports.
- Ability to link customer insight knowledge into mid and long
- term commercial actions.
- Strong in driving results and constantly improving ways of working.
- Strong informal leader
- Collaborative, with excellent communication and presentation skill

This role is based in Sydney, Australia. **Applicants must have unrestricted working rights in Australia.**

Additional Information
**What's in it for you?**
- Encourages work life balance with flexible working arrangements
- Receive 25% off H&M and other H&M Group brands
- Continuous learning and development opportunities within a global business
- Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave for eligible team members
- Access to 24/7 wellbeing provider
- Enjoy your birthday with an extra day of leave
- Please note that interviews are conducted both in person and virtually. When you apply, please feel free to tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process._