Supplier Strategy Lead - Fragrance

This is a full-time temporary project employment of 12 months based in Stockholm. Please send your CV in English as soon as possible as profiles will be reviewed continuously. We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.

About H&M Group

• Resilient and adaptable in an environment where the way forward is not always clearly defined.
• 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.
• WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company.
• With a presence in markets around the world, we offer extensive career development and international mobility.
• US Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth.
• But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.
• Take the next step in your career together with us.
• The journey starts here.

Responsibilities

• YOU’LL DO As Supplier Strategy Lead, you will help H&M Beauty Fragrance build the supplier partnerships and production capabilities needed to grow its fragrance business.
• You will shape and implement a strategy covering fragrance oils, suppliers that fill the finished products, packaging and components.
• Your focus will be on making product development and production faster and more efficient, while ensuring suppliers can support growing volumes.
• This is a full-time temporary project employment of 12 months based in Stockholm.
• Develop and coordinate a supplier plan for the fragrance business, covering fragrance oils, product filling, packaging and components.
• Assess supplier capabilities, capacity, cost structures, innovation potential and geographic footprint.
• Build long-term supplier partnerships and develop a supplier capability roadmap to support the growth of the fragrance business.
• Identify gaps in supplier capabilities, production bottlenecks and supply risks that could limit growth, increase costs or disrupt deliveries.
• Coordinate strategic production and capacity planning for key fragrance launches and programmes.
• Develop ways of working that bring supplier expertise into product development at an earlier stage.
• Simplify development and production processes to improve efficiency and speed-to-market.
• Compare existing approaches and introduce scalable solutions across formulation, packaging, packaging design and labelling, samples, testing and production.
• Organize sessions with suppliers to explore new ideas, review their capabilities and follow up on business priorities, together with the team responsible for day-to-day supplier coordination and other relevant colleagues.
• Turn strategy into practical solutions and follow through on implementation.
• WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH You will join H&M Beauty at an exciting stage as we continue to build and scale our fragrance business.
• You will work cross-functionally with product manager, junior buyers, planner, designer, controller, logistics and external suppliers.
• You will work closely with merchandising colleagues in the production organisation and the fragrance product development team to align fragrance supplier capabilities and production capacity with assortment priorities.
• Together, you will translate plans for future fragrance products into clear supplier requirements and production plans.
• While the production office team manages daily activities, your focus will be on longer-term supplier development and improvements to how teams and suppliers work together.
• WHO YOU ARE We are looking for people with… Relevant experience in supplier management, supplier development, strategic sourcing, production planning, supply chain or product development.
• Experience in assessing, developing and managing supplier partnerships.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, preferably within fragrance, beauty, cosmetics, consumer goods or another fast-moving product environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and implementing process improvements.
• The ability to turn analysis and strategic plans into practical changes, then follow through on implementation.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to bring together colleagues and suppliers with different priorities.
• Motivated by helping the fragrance business launch products faster and support growing volumes by simplifying how products are developed and produced.
• WHO WE ARE H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures.

Requirements

• A commercial mindset and the ability to balance product, supplier, operational and business needs.
• Fluency in English.
• And people who are… Collaborative, relationship-driven and comfortable working across functions and organisations.
• Curious, solution-focused and motivated by solving complex problems.
• Comfortable challenging existing ways of working and driving change.
• Structured and able to create clarity in a developing area.
• Proactive, persistent and able to follow through.

Benefits

• We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
• 25% Staff discount on all our H&M Group brands, both in stores and online (H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories and ARKET).
• H&M Incentive Program – HIP.
• Learn more about the program here .