Junior Buyer-External Brands to H&M Beauty

Job Description

We are looking for a Junior Buyer with a passion for Beauty and strong business sense who wants to be part of the journey to create growth within our new H&M Beauty brand.

Role

We are looking for you who want a challenge and get excited about taking part in building the new H&M Beauty brand as well as developing our future H&M Beauty external brands assortment

We are looking for someone with strong administrative, analytical skills, method and, above all, salesmanship. You should be passionate about keeping up to date with the fast-pace and ever-changing Beauty world around us.

Main responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Support buyer in assortment selection, negotiating prices and terms to build the best customer offer for H&M Beauty.
• Build and maintain positive relationship with partners.
• Secure product master data at the right time with the right quality from our partners.
• Administrate campaign briefs, product samples and invoicing towards partners.
• Competitor insights and market research: Keep track of the beauty industry, market trends and competitor’s campaigns and pricing.
• Keep the timelines both internally and towards our partners.
• Developing way of working, taking part of project and ad hoc assignments

Qualifications

We are looking for you who;

• Preferably have 2 years experience from a similar role
• Have an education in buying or similar
• Have a strong passion for beauty
• Business minded and want to drive development and progression in the assortment
• Have a strong salesmanship and great commercial thinking
• Analytical skills and get it done attitude, not afraid to take actions
• Structured, and strong in administration, method and a drive to always improve processes and tools
• Have negotiations and communications skills and a professional approach towards external stakeholders
• Are flexible, solution oriented and a team player
• Excellent skills in Excel, office 365 and other planning tools
• Excellent skills in English both in writing and orally

Additional information:

This is a full time permanent position, based in Stockholm city center with a starting date as soon as possible. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 29th of November. Interviews will be held continuously. (For internal candidates, please remember to initiate a dialogue with your current 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

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.

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

At H&M BEAUTY, our aim is to capture the enormous market potential of the beauty business by making it possible for everyone to look, feel and do good. We are pioneering a new business model for the group where our own in-house beauty assortment is complemented with the latest external Beauty brands, allowing our customers to complete their fashion look with the best in beaut . Within the Business Unit H&M Lifestyle Brands, we apply the strong heritage of H&M to new industries, to add excitement and energy to our offer and strengthening the H&M brand. H&M Lifestyle Brands includes H&M HOME, H&M BEAUTY and H&M MOVE.

At H&M BEAUTY, progress is our creed and passion is what drives us. We will throw the beauty parties no one wants to miss, be featured in beauty bags worldwide — and be that favorite lipstick on your bathroom shelf.

Through our knowledge, experience and pure passion for what we do, we aim to deliver excellence to our customers — and we want to get even better at it. We believe that different perspectives are an asset in every team, and that's why we're looking for new mindsets and norm-challenging viewpoints to join us. Our enthusiasm for all things beauty is what makes the success of our team — join our H&M beauty journey, we want you on board!

Look forward to hearing from you!