Buyer External Brands to H&M Beauty - Lifestyle Brands

Company Description

Do you want to be a key player in creating a new and disruptive global beauty destination and brand where your ideas and business mindset really makes a difference? Do you have a genuine passion for creating results, hunt selling, beauty products and want to work in dynamic workplace?  If so, the role as Buyer External Brands at H&M Beauty might be something for you.   

H&M BEAUTY is capturing the enormous potential of the beauty market by becoming the world's most fashionable beauty destination. On this journey, we have reimagined our makeup line, continuously elevating our private label assortment to include makeup, beauty tools, body care, and fragrance. We also focus on building a credible and complete beauty destination by complementing our in-house offerings with the latest external beauty brands, enabling our customers to complement their fashion looks with top beauty products. 

Job Description

We are now looking for a buyer-external brands team and as a Buyer, you have the responsibility for creating and optimizing the best possible customer offer and assortment for our customer. The position also requires strong negotiating skills and the ability to build strong partnership with external supplier/brands.  
 

You are a self-motivated person with a curious mindset and a genuine passion for growing businesses through outstanding products and offering. A person with a get-it-done attitude and inspiring, straight forward communication. You thrive in an entrepreneurial setting and are constantly looking for possibilities to drive sales, develop the business and find new ways to revenue based on the overall vision & goals.  
 

Main responsibilities, but not limited to: 

• Ensure and develop the assortment so that it drives growth and profitability (constantly follow, react to and see new sales opportunities) 

• Selecting brands and products according to frameworks and strategies for the category / department 

• Ensure strong partner relationships with all external partners  

• The department’s customer focus (set vision and identify what the customer wants) 

• Creating strong and relevant offers for campaigns and sales-driving activities based on our marketing program and the current marketing opportunities that exist with an omni perspective and sell this to our external brand partners. 

• Negotiate supplier agreements, purchase prices, margins and campaigns 

• Pricing strategy and budgeting  

• Ensure planograms and assortment efficiency according to decided product life cycle  

• Ensure optimal product launches for new and current external brands 

• Develop an action plan when a brand does not deliver according to plan 

• Participates in logistic management to optimize order flow and deliveries 

Qualifications

Experience and skills 

• Minimum 3 years’ experience from Buying- working with Beauty brands is required 

• Have a university degree in Business Administration, supply chain management or buying 

• Have strong working method, problem-solving approach and salesmanship 

• Have a passion for beauty  

• Analytical skills and get it done attitude, not afraid to take actions and make priorities under high workload, always with the customer in mind 

• Have a distinct business sense and a skilled negotiator 

• Have experience from building Beauty assortment and/or brands 

• Good ability to work goal-focused and driven by seeing results 

• Like to guide, involve and inspire the team 

• Have strong communication skills 

• Experience of and excellent skills in office 365 and especially excel 

• Excellent skills in English both in writing and orally 

Additional Information

This is a temporary, fulltime position of 12 months, placed in H&M Beauty’s office in Stockholm. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV in English as soon as possible. Interviews will be held continuously.

For internal candidates, please initiate a dialogue with you manager before applying.

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. 

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!