Assortment Manager

Are you a natural leader with a passion for fashion and driving strong results? We are searching for an experienced and ambitious Assortment Manager to lead our Menswear Collection at H&M. If you thrive on shaping industry-leading products and are motivated to drive growth and excellence, this is the role for you. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

As our Assortment Manager, you will take full ownership of multiple categories within the Menswear Collection, driving the end-to-end assortment strategy to deliver exceptional product ranges aligned with H&M's key business priorities. You will be instrumental in setting and executing both short and long-term global strategies to deliver outstanding product assortments tailored to our target customer. 

Your leadership extends to the teams working across the categories oversee, providing overall direction and guidance. You hold direct responsibility for around 8 team members in various roles including Product Managers, Product Developers, Junior Product Developers and Assortment Designer.  

Setting the direction, leading by example, and building strong collaborative relationships across teams and departments will be key to aligning strategies and driving the growth and success of the overall Menswear Collection and each category. 

WHO YOU ARE 

As a successful Assortment Manager, you are results-driven and commercially minded. You consistently seek strategic opportunities to enhance selling performance and improve profitability. With a customer-centric mindset, you excel at identifying opportunities and solving challenges to win over our target audience. 

You bring energy, drive and authenticity to leading teams. You inspire by example, confidently engaging and empowering individuals across diverse backgrounds and expertise to achieve their best.  

You are passionate about cultivating a positive and ambitious team culture, leveraging your strong collaborative and communication skills to set challenging goals and celebrate successes together.  

We believe the ideal candidate has: 

• Deep knowledge of the fashion and/or retail industry 
• A keen sense of style and trend awareness relevant to our customers 
• Demonstrated expertise in building commercially attractive assortments and product ranges. You combine fashion knowledge, strategic vision, and an ability to shape well-balanced, profitable ranges that resonate with our target customer and brand purpose.  
• Extensive leadership experience, with at least 10 years of proven success leading and developing high-performing teams. 
• Strong business acumen and a strategic mindset, demonstrated by a track record of driving growth, enhancing customer value, and increasing profitability.  
• The ability to define clear strategies aligned with company purpose and business goals, and the discipline to follow through on execution. 
• Expertise in building and managing collaborative relationships across diverse departments, including design, planning, production and support functions. 
• Experience and knowledge from garment production and supplier management. 

You will be expected to deliver high-impact assortments that drive measurable business results, ensuring strong alignment across teams and functions. Through your leadership and expertise, you will secure the execution of assortment strategies from idea to finished product, continuously optimizing for customer relevance and profitability. You'll be a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, shaping key assortment decisions while fostering an engaged and high-performing team that transforms vision into successful collections. 

WHO WE ARE  

H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.   We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.

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Additional information

This is a full-time permanent position, with placement in Stockholm. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV in English as soon as you can. Interviews will be held continuously. For internal candidates, please initiate a dialogue with you manager before applying.  If you are currently in a permanent employment with H&M you will keep your permanent employment even if you take on a temporary position for a limited time.

Benefits

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. 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. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP.

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 strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases. 

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