Area HR Manager (FTC)

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Company Description

Job Description

As the Area HR Manager, you are responsible to ensure all our stores are equipped to provide the best possible customer experience by securing the successful implementation of the brands HR strategy, short and long term. In this role you work together with Area and Store teams to secure quality throughout the employee life cycle.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing the brand HR strategy to ensure employee engagement and the quality of the employee life cycle.
• Contribute to a people first working environment, driving, and supporting actions & events based on the annual HR goals.
• Collaborate with all functions in the Area Team, contribute to an efficient- and informative- workflow.
• Collaborate with the Global Sales HR to provide feedback on the people agenda to influence materials and processes needed to meet the changing needs.
• Train & coach Store Managers to take actions based on HR KPIs to ensure business needs are met.
• Work with Store Managers to ensure stores operate within the guidelines of global health & safety policy.
• Build and maintain a strong relationship with H&M group HR teams to ensure quality of employee relations.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Partner to secure recruitment activities and succession planning
• Partner with Global Sales HR, Total Reward and ER team to oversee and administers local reward initiatives.
• Knowledgeable on local legislation and culture, liaise with H&M HR and legal departments to ensure all & Other Stories stores are following local policies.

Qualifications

Alignment to our company values is the most important characteristic we look for in all new joiners. Our values are the behaviours that we appreciate above and beyond anything else. We are open-minded and curious, we dare to be different, we believe in constant improvement, and we empower and trust you to take ownership. Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for and how we act.

In addition to our values for this role we are also looking for:

About you?

• Previous experience working in HR function
• Degree level qualification in HR (preferable)
• Excellent English language skills, both verbal & written
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Proven organizational, analytical and decision making abilities
• Sales driven and result oriented
• Self-motivated and ability to take own initiative
• Ability to travel up to 60% of time

Additional Information

This is a full-time, fixed term 12-month role based in London, starting asap. After the 12 months, the role may have the possibility to extend. If you feel your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application, latest by September 22nd, 2024. Interviews will be held continuously.

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive recruitment process, why we kindly ask you to not attach cover letter in your application as they often contain information that can easily trigger unintentional biases.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Benefits

We offer all our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a 25% staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. 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 this London based colleagues also receive

• 25 days holiday
• Discounts on everyday brands and leisure activities
• Retail Trust membership
• Pension scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme

& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story.
Our creative ateliers in Paris and Stockholm design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality. For us there's no right or wrong when it comes to style, just possibilities and the joy of self-expression.
We currently have 71 stores and offer online selling on 72 markets through Stories.com and external partners. And we are growing!