Area HR

Company Description

H&M is on a journey to become a truly customer focused company. We´re putting our passion for the customer at center, upgrading the customer experience and taking it to the next level. We´re changing our way of working to be able to offer our customers a seamless shopping experience. This means that we need to accelerate our omni customer experience and put omni at the core of our business.

At H&M Group we believe it’s possible for you to find what you love. We offer you space to create and room to grow — a place where you can belong and truly be yourself.  You’ll join a team that is full of life in a company that feels as good as it looks. At H&M Group, we believe it’s possible because together we make it possible.  

We are now searching for our next colleague to the HR Department. In this role you would be a part of the Central HR Department at the Support Office in Oslo - becoming a part of a diverse, goal-oriented and value-driven team, characterized by believing in people, driving team with an entrepreneurial spirit. Are you a practical leader, with customer focus and the ability to influence H&M Norway with developing our best teams and secure a pipeline to our key position? Maybe you are our next colleague in the HR Department.

Job Description

As a Area HR you are responsible for supporting and implementing our HR strategy to deliver a great customer experience in line with your Area goals and Sales Market HR focuses. You support the Area to have great teams by ensuring our employee value propositions are in place. You make sure that your Area actively works with succession planning, talent- and leadership development, and structured performance management, based on results, values and leadership.

You ensure we offer all employees fair and attractive working conditions and that all employee relation responsibilities, legal requirements, and H&M policies are fulfilled to meet the expectations of customers and colleagues.

As an Area HR you work close to the core of our business – Our Stores. 
Your ability to inspire our colleagues with your ideas is crucial, to take business-minded decisions, adapt to changes implementing actions based on your analysis. All days are different and it is up to you to decide how to create sales growth and improve profitability always with a mindful growth by attracting, recruiting and developing the best teams. 

Be a people leader & an action-oriented doer.

We will not be telling you exactly what to do, but some of your main responsibilities will be:

• Developing HR strategies to ensure diverse & inclusive teams together with the rest of the HR Department in the Sales Market
• Strategic succession planning to generate a sustainable talent pipeline
• Securing an agile attraction and recruitment process 
• Planning, organizing & adapting trainings for all employees in your own Area
• Supporting & coaching store management teams with their employees
• Analyzing staff turnover and illness and acting on it
• Assuring working conditions according to local law and global H&M policies
• Supporting and promoting our values, DNA and employer branding initiatives

Qualifications

You act in line with our Values and Leadership Expectations. You contribute to our best business success by being results driven, business minded, a team player and a role model for H&M.

As a leader, we expect you to: 

• Be customer centric & business-minded
• Be a passionate H&M ambassador 
• Be a team player with an open mind, inspiring communication and a flexible growth mindset capable of working in a cooperating way.  
• Drive results, improving efficiency and developing yourself as well as the company
• Develop others within the company through coaching and mentoring
• Develop smart & simple solutions by trying new things with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Deal with high-pressure situations with a hands-on & positive approach
• Have analytical & strategical skills

In order to be successful in the role we believe you have:

• Business management, HR or other related studies or experience
• At least 3-5 years of experience within a team management role
• Fluent in a Scandinavian language & English, both spoken and written.
• Microsoft office skills
• You are open to travel

Additional Information

If you feel that your experience, skills, and ambitions are a match, send us your application as soon as possible, but no later then April 23th. We’re more about personality and competence than qualifications, so don’t worry if your skills aren’t a perfect mat