Expansion Manager

**At H&M Group, we are here to inspire people around the world to express their personality through fashion and design by making a more sustainable lifestyle exciting and accessible for everyone - regardless of style or budget. To get there, we have set the 2030 Goals for People, Planet and Growth, ensuring that we can continue leading our industry towards a sustainable future and creating long-term profitable growth.**

**In the coming years we focus on elevating the full H&M experience in the eyes of the consumers through Product, Experience and Brand, guided by our Brand Plan. Do you want to be part of making us succeed?**

The AUNZ team are taking the next steps to accelerate towards our brand direction by reshaping our operations. To achieve our ambitions, deliver on our goals and create value for our customers, our colleagues play a key role. With clarified roles and responsibilities, we continue to execute with speed and adapt to the changes in the world around us.

As the Expansion Manger you lead a team consisting of a Lease Manager, Legal Counsel and Expansion Controller and co-lead a team of C&F Managers. You set strategy and targets for growth, portfolio management - and negotiation for the sales market and are responsible for budgets, P&L's and sales forecasts within the sales market. You set a foundation for collaboration and alignment across expansion functions on strategy and projects.

**Key responsibilities**:
Leading the team
- Create conditions to enable performance of teams and individuals.
- Identify and develop talents in order to build (future) organisation and diverse teams.
- Strengthen teamwork and foster cross functional collaboration.

Strategy and Targets
- You create the expansion strategy and portfolio management plan for the sales market.
- You have the ownership of the financially and commercially healthy portfolio and new project performance.
- Have the customer in focus in the expansion strategy and location selection.
- Have a good understanding of the leasing, legal and the real estate market and secure that all strategy, negotiations and contract execution is in line with company, legal and ethical standards.
- You plan weekly, quarterly and yearly activities taking into consideration local and regional deliverables.

Budget, P&L and Sales
- You secure that all projects meet their sales, cost and investment budgets.
- You have responsibility for the profitability and the occupancy cost level of the portfolio and take the relevant actions to secure the financial health of the portfolio long term.
- You follow up on all new projects' sales and cost and draw learnings for future projects and budgeting.

Collaboration
- You work in close collaboration with the Regional Head of Expansion to set and implement the strategy in your market.
- Secure high professionalism of teams in your market by giving clear feedback on development areas, providing ideas and promoting cross-department and cross-brand collaboration.
- You work in close collaboration with the Regional Expansion Manager to secure the best overall result for the business.

**Qualifications**
To be successful as an Expansion Manager we believe you are a result driven person with great coaching skills. You have a strong business mindset, communicate well and you are comfortable in making decisions. You work strategically and have a multibrand and multichannel perspective in your long
- and short-term plan and decision making. In addition to this we believe you have strong managerial skills and are a visionary leader, who effectively collaborate with groups of diverse people and communicate in an inspiring way - you succeed in your work and you make others succeed.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Coaching and leadership skills with experience managing a team
- Strong Leasing skills and good legal understanding
- Strategic planning and long-term vision
- Planning & Organizing
- Good financial understanding
- Result driven
- Can understand, read, speak and write in English at an advanced level
- Knowledge in MS Office, more specifically Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and MS Teams
- At least 5 years of working experience from leasing, controlling and/or real estate, preferably within the retail industry
- Experience from working in an international, matrix organization with several stakeholders and seniority levels
- Degree in Business Administration, Law or Engineering

**Additional Information**
This is a** full-time role **reporting to the Country Sales Market Manager for AUNZ, you will be **based in Sydney, Australia**.

**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.

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