Job Description

As an employee, you are always an ambassador for & Other Stories. An inclusive and welcoming workplace where great challenges and opportunities are offered to you to grow and where we win together.

You encourage and contribute to the shared responsibility of creating and protecting an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone can self-identify.

We always have our customers in mind and believe in a welcoming approach where our expertise and fashion knowledge are key.

You actively work to achieve great teamwork where our values are the basis for your work and a natural part of our way of working.

Purpose of role

As Retail Merchandise Manager at & Other Stories, you are responsible for maximizing net sales and profitability for your concept – short & long term.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

Your main responsibility will be to drive selling in our physical retail channel. You will work closely with online & visual merchandisers as well as the assortment buying teams in order to ensure the best OMNI customer offer for your market and concept.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Drive your concept and optimize net selling

Drive and optimize net selling and growth through setting clear strategies, commercial focuses and quantified goals.

• Take short and long-term actions to increase concept selling based on relevant analysis – always putting our customer at the center.
• Share concept strategy and commercial priorities with areas & market merchandisers (kick-off materials and weekly).
• Review your commercial plan, actions and selling quarterly and set quantified improvements for next year for EU. In collaboration with Online counterpart.

Optimize your stock (EU)

• Secure commercial impact in store by setting the allocation and replenishment strategy on store and market segments for your concept.
• Optimize stock balance between new and previous seasons with allocation for your concept.
• Responsible for reduction cost of your concept. Optimize the effect of reductions through sale, activities, and price adjustments.
• Work closely with our supply chain merchandisers and online merchandisers to balance and optimize stock between our channels.

Create best OMNI customer offer

Know your customer: expectations and price willing to pay for key products and key garments types in EU.

• Gather feedback from store and areas for your concept in order to develop your commercial plan.
• Together with Online merchandisers, work closely with assortment buying teams to influence price, quantities, income timing and assortment width.
• Together with Online merchandisers, work closely with assortment buying teams to influence price, quantities, income timing and assortment width.

Qualifications

We believe You are guided by our values in all that you do, and together with your colleagues you are responsible for keeping the values alive and as a guide in your everyday work. you have a positive and creative attitude and always strive for improvement. You are independent, driven, structured and organized. You have a good sense for a high service level and teamwork.

• Strong analytical skills
• Passion for retail and fashion
• Action driven with a commercial thinking to drive best customer offer and results.
• Good at having an overview and prioritize in a potentially complex environment with a problem-solving attitude.
• Curious and excited about finding and testing new ways to optimize our customer offer and selling.
• Driven, structured team player who successfully takes own initiatives to drive your business.
• Has leadership experience/qualities and is a natural team player with straightforward communication skills.
• Flexibility to travel.

You are guided by our values in all that you do, and together with your colleagues you are responsible for keeping the values alive and as a guide in your everyday work. (Group Values).

Additional information

This is a permanent role starting as soon as possible and is based at &Other Stories Head Office (Kungsholmstorg 5) in Stockholm, Sweden. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send in your resume (no need for cover letter) in English, latest by 8th of October 2024.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Global 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 include 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

At H&M Group, we're determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. 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.

Company Description

& Other Stories offers fashion-loving women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear – all equally important for the whole look. We inspire women to create their own personal style and expression. Our ateliers design diverse collections with great attention to detail and quality, always with modern femininity in mind. Learn more about & Other Stories here.