Product Compliance Lead for external brands, VS External Partnerships
Job Description
Commercial Development & Growth is a global function within the H&M brand and our mission is to set and deliver on the global customer experience strategy to strengthen our brand and enable profitable sales. Together we develop, expand and optimise all sales channels while securing conditions for efficient operations leveraged by tech and strong collaboration across the organisation.
Our function plays a key role in delivering on our brand plan through an elevated, inspirational, and relevant shopping experience that is centered around our product and provides competitive convenience for our customers.
About the role
To meet the individual needs and desires of our customers, external brands within Value Stream External Partnerships and New Business Channels enable our brands to move faster and stay relentlessly customer-focused by delivering exceptional services.
Are you a passionate compliance and regulatory champion with a service-driven mindset? Do you know the right questions to ask and the relevant insights to help our brands achieve meaningful growth? Can you turn challenges into opportunities? If so, this job might be perfect for you!
As a Product Compliance Lead, you are responsible for securing our external brands and partners on understanding and meeting both H&M Group's requirements as well as legal requirements, in all selling markets. You work in a proactive manner to ensure that we and our partners are future ready for latest H&M policy, legal, regulatory requirements. You secure that the products are compliant to create the best customer offer in all sales channels in a sustainable and legal way. You will work in an enabling team, in a collaborative network close to other colleagues and functions such as Product Compliance Department, Customer group/Business Unit/Portfolio Brands, Sustainability, Legal and all the H&M Group brands.
Your responsibilities would be to
- Be part of a multi competent service team and work actively to identify and create business value for our H&M Group brands and their external partners.
- Together with the other teams defines the strategic vision and create the compliance roadmap based on deep understanding of the business potentials for the future.
- Have a tight collaboration with stakeholders in many parts of the organization, to make sure that compliance, product safety, sustainability and salesmanship are working hand in hand.
- Collect information to perform a Due Diligence at company level and compliance check at product level on our external partners and products. This includes managing external partners and stakeholders using a consultative approach, when needed.
- Acting as the H&M spokesperson on compliance-related topics to brands/partners, making recommendations to our Customer Groups/Business Units to make well informed business decisions.
- You plan, investigate, communicate and follow up on enabling new external branded products within your responsibility area end-to-end
- You also update compliance connected documents and routines as well as communicating the updates to the external partners.
We are searching for someone who
1. Has a relevant university degree, civil engineer or equivalent.
2. At least three years’ experience as a regulatory compliance specialist, or similar.
3. Has good knowledge of industry regulations and governing laws for various product categories. Experience from product compliance and safety regulation for cosmetic and chemical products will be advantageous.
4. Has a flexible approach and ability to find creative solutions with the customer in mind.
5. Has a strong interest in sustainability.
6. Has a can- do mindset, willing to get hands-on solving any problems needed to make the team move forward through the Why, the What and the How
7. Has great “keep it simple” approach and can turn complex analysis into key messages that non-compliance specialists easily can understand and take action on.
Additional Information
This is a full-time permanent position based at our head office in Stockholm. Ready to take the leap? Apply now with your application latest by May 8th. We are excited to welcome you to our team and start this incredible journey together!
WHO WE ARE
H&M is a fashion brand dedicated to liberating fashion for the many. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way.
While we live and breathe fashion, we constantly challenge conventions and norms. This has always been and will always be part of our DNA and our values. We want to make fashion, and our industry, better. More inclusive. More accessible. More sustainable. More surprising. We have the scale and influence to make a real difference and lead the way towards a more sustainable fashion future.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
- 25% Staff discount card on all our H&M Group brands (H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories and ARKET).
- H&M Incentive Program – HIP. Learn more about the program here.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A unique and vibrant inclusive company.
- 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.
JOIN US
Everything starts with this position. It starts with you expressing your full self and feeling H&M is the place that you belong. It starts with embracing a diverse team where everyone counts and feels supported. Our common goal is to contribute to a more accessible, inclusive and sustainable fashion future.
Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our welcoming and collaborative culture, our strong values, and endless opportunities for growth, as well as our benefits. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are. Together we create meaningful relationships with our customers and colleagues worldwide.
Join this journey to shape the future of fashion. Discover how far you can go.
