area manager sap functional

1 week ago


Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden H&M Group Full time
Job Description

We are looking for an Area Manager SAP Functional and Infrastructure who will lead the team to build and maintain the SAP environment, infrastructure ecosystem and cloud services.
With in-depth knowledge of SAP framework, platform technology and standards, you will be focusing on continuous service improvement and driving related initiatives with partner teams. You will ensure best-in-class operations of the SAP platforms.

In this role You will have close collaboration with the other four areas within the Unit SAP Platform and the total H&M Group SAP Community across product teams and operations.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Drive SAP digital transformation and SAP ecosystem performance optimization and tuning
  • Ensure that all SAP Systems (Cloud, Data Center and related hosting entities or PaaS/SaaS providers) and associated systems are up to date and performing according to IT standards, business needs and overall SAP strategy
  • Overall operational and strategic accountability for the infrastructure of the SAP suite of applications
  • Overall responsibility for application operations and management
  • Governce stability, scalability linked with SAP Platform Engineering availability, and system performance.
  • Assure best-in-class service operations in close collaboration with internal and external service providers
  • Ensure system effectiveness by keeping abreast with latest technologies and upgrade to latest versions in conjunction with business needs
  • Review SAP performance reports, operational & performance KPIs and SLAs to identify potential risks or issues, including those that may span across multiple areas. Working with Infrastructure Platform function for system (Cloud and Data Center) upgrades
  • Own the Data Volume Management Framework ensuring implementation of best practices, tools, and SAP services along all stages of the data volume management lifecycle taking correction action as required ensuring data integrity across the landscape
  • Own and drive maintenance calendar to ensure infrastructure downtime is well managed and communicated to business
  • Manage relationships with key vendors and managed service providers and external partner performance
  • Formal staff responsibility, including salary review, performance dialogues and support in individual development plans and competence needs
Qualifications
  • Extensive experience in SAP area, ideally with technical background (database, infrastructure, operating system, cloud and hybrid architecture)
  • Management experience in leading technical teams and collaboration with external service providers and being a contract owner
  • In-depth knowledge of the SAP technical framework and SAP Basis stack
  • Ability to communicate the SAP strategy to a variety of team members
  • Ability to partner with across organisation to work on improvement of the SAP applications and platform
  • Analyse service performance based on data provided and interpret the data to determine the quality of the service in the whole process chain – validate this against the user perception of the service
  • Strong people skills with the ability to create trustful relationships
  • Dare to lead and be able to communicate in a clear and simple way
  • Contribute to an open and collaborative environment cross organisation and competencies
  • Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative and transparent environment where everyone is equally valued
Additional Information

Company Description

H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.

H&M Group
H&M Group is a family of brands; H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET and Afound. At H&M Group, our people are the driving force behind our commitment to creating meaningful growth and more sustainable lifestyles. Help us re-imagine fashion and together we will re-shape our industry. Learn more about H&M Group here.

Working with tech at H&M Group
The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations.
At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.

What we offer

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.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

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 organisation. 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 are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.

Additional information
This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 21th of June.
We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Martin Masden at



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