Product Designer - H&M Womenswear Light Woven

Exciting new opportunity to join H&M as a Fashion Designer within our Womenswear Light Woven department. As a Product Designer, you'll lead the way in identifying key products and crafting the perfect assortment for our target customers. We seek a passionate Designer skilled in building strong collections.

Able to communicate your vision and product ideas in a clear way with a creative, fashion forward and commercial focus. Essentially you will have the ability to work close to season with a high pace proactive approach and able to build & maintain strong relationships both internally and with external partners.

If you're a Designer who loves to collaborate, work in a team, and provide diverse markets with the best products sold worldwide than H&M could be the brand for you. This role will be handling a collection with a focus on light wovens across dresses, blouses, skirts and light trousers. It is key to have a high fashion sense of style and trends for our target customer, while maintaining a cost-conscious awareness throughout the design process.

The role requires strong drive, high energy, creativity, and experience in coaching & leading others to commercial success!

Qualifications

A minimum of a BA/MA or equivalent experience in Fashion/Textile Design

• Minimum of 3 years' work experience as a Designer for Light Woven product types
• Background from an aspirational global brand or retailer
• International experience is meriting
• Attention to detail with strong knowledge on light woven products
• A creative mindset with sharp eye for both current and future trends
• Strong customer focus and commercial mindset for H&M's global womenswear customer
• Experience working closely with suppliers/factories in Asia and Europe
• Strong skills in and used to working in Adobe Creative Suite programs
• 3D CLO is meriting
• Demonstrated communication skills and true collaborative team player
• Leadership and coaching mindset
• Independent, driven & proactive with "one step ahead" mindset
• Organized & structured, able to set priorities and follow timelines
• Flexible mindset and adaptable to changes in a fast moving & growing industry
• Fluent in English (Swedish not necessary)

Additional information

This position is based in Stockholm, to start asap. You will report into the department Assortment Manager and work with a like-minded team of passionate Designers/Product Developers and Planners.

If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV and relevant portfolio work (pdf max 10mb/uploading) Portfolio should include vision/mood boards, full design process and final collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to the aspirational H&M Women's target customer.

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, 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 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
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H & M here.

Location
Mäster Samuelsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden