Technical Fit Designer / Pattern Maker - Menswear

Are you passionate about creating products that look great, fit perfectly, and meet the needs of our customers? Do you combine technical expertise with a strong fashion eye and a customer-first mindset?
Then you might be the Technical Fit Designer we're looking for.

At H&M Menswear, we create fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. As a Technical Fit Designer, you play a key role in bringing our products to life, ensuring outstanding fit, sizing, and technical execution throughout the product development journey. Working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Product developers, and suppliers, you help shape products that meet customer needs, improve satisfaction, and strengthen our business performance.

What you will do

As a Technical Fit Designer, you drive and execute the fit and technical design process across multiple product areas, working across different product groups and categories, adapting your expertise to varying customer, product and business needs.

You use customer insights, sales performance, and market trends to continuously improve fit, sizing, and product quality while supporting an efficient and flexible way of working.

Your responsibilities include:

• Drive the pre-season fit and grading development by evaluating needs that are set together with the product team, grounded in fashion, customer insights, sales data, assortment strategies and identified key opportunities.

• Using customer feedback, sales data, and competitive insights to improve fit quality, reduce returns, and enhance customer satisfaction

• Supporting the other members in the product teams and suppliers during the ideation phase with technical expertise and fit solutions

• Providing pattern foundations, sizing guidance, and technical direction to ensure early alignment

• Leading fitting sessions, evaluating garments, and defining next development steps

• Creating and/ or validating technical product packs, including specifications, measurements, grading, and construction details

• Balancing design, best fit and technical solutions to secure production-ready products

• Building strong collaborative relationships with suppliers and cross-functional teams

• Driving continuous improvements in processes, ways of working, and fit development methods

• Supporting and onboarding new Technical Fit Designers

Who you are

We are looking for you who have a strong technical foundation, excellent product understanding, and a genuine passion for creating products that work for our customers.

We believe you have:

• At least 5 years of experience working with fit development, technical design, pattern making, or garment construction

• Strong knowledge of grading, body measurements, size development, and pattern construction

• Experience creating technical specifications and production-ready documentation

• A solid understanding of materials, trims, garment construction, and manufacturing processes

• Experience in Lectra Modaris and PLM Centric

• The ability to lead fitting sessions and make confident technical decisions

• A strong customer and commercial mindset, using insights and data to improve products

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

• A flexible and proactive approach to creating efficient ways of working

This is a full time position. Contract type is temporary 12 month contract with chances to be prolonged. We are also open for flexible contract lengths between 6-12 months. The position is based in our Head Office in Stockholm. You will report to Fit & Size Manager Menswear.

As this is a temporary position, we are unfortunately not able to offer a relocation package or mobility support for this role.

If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your CV asap as we will be interviewing continuously for this role. All documents should be in English.

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.

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.

Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here!
Location
Mäster Samuelsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden