Product Technologist

Company Description

Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children

At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands — H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET, Afound, Treadler and Itsapark — offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries.

**About COS**:Offering innovative design, elevated essentials and wardrobe icons, COS is a fashion brand rooted in contemporary culture. From the beginning, our design ethos has always put lasting style, quality and sustainability first. Today 92% of the materials in our collection are more sustainably sourced.

**Job Description**:
**What you do**:

- As a Product Technologist you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers in product quality, fit and technical risk assessment on our products
- Working on site with suppliers you are responsible for educating and developing our suppliers towards self-reliance in the product flow in connection to your assortment needs.
- Working closing with the necessary stakeholders your role is to ensure we deliver the best product aligned with our business idea.
- You play a key role in contributing towards securing best product from a customer perspective. Working with the global/regional teams you are responsible for co-executing the market development plans and supplier / product strategy on your product categories.
- Working with our suppliers and hand in hand with other relevant internal stakeholders you are responsible for driving/developing product development and production capability within quality, fit and consumption optimization

**How you do it**:

- As a Product Technologist you have extensive technical and operational production knowledge. Along with a very good level of knowledge and understanding in fit, grading, pattern construction, consumption, customer, material and cost, that you can rely on/ability to help grow and develop our business and supplier capability.
- Collaboration and teamwork are key, you should work hand in hand with Product Development teams and other stakeholders to co-execute the strategies and activities that are set.
- You need to be a strong communicator, using these skills to manage and educate a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Business minded, you have good local market knowledge and the ability to seek out further opportunities that could strengthen our customer offer.
- You act with a high level of professionalism at all times, while working daily as a role model towards our H&M values

**Qualifications**:

- 5 to 10 years of experience as a Product Technologist with workmanship/making/material understanding, fitting and pattern related technical capabilities, premium quality apparel (woven preferred)
- Luxury/premium brand experience, non-apparel category experience will be an added advantage. (Jewelry, footwear, bags, belts, accessories)
- Factory experience in sampling/production, cost related consumption, wastage, Industrial Engineering knowledge will be a plus.
- Ability to zoom in and out to breakdown strategy and execute in operation (result oriented)
- Informally lead the execution of a strategy
- Strong communication skills - ability to work effectively on distance and in a cross-culture network, ability to deliver clear training/quality requirement linked to brand quality /sampling goal.
- Salesmanship to deliver technical solution and engage stakeholders internal and external

Additional Information

COS, alongside Arket, Monki, Weekday, Afound, & Other Stories and H&M, is one of several unique brands that make up the H&M group. The H&M Group employs over 170,000 people in 74 markets across the globe, and we are the 2nd largest fashion company in the world. Since launching COS in 2007, we have opened more than 200 stores worldwide.

At COS we love welcoming new people and work hard to provide an environment where everyone feels appreciated and valued. We celebrate individual differences and recognise the contribution that all our colleagues make, regardless of their background.

We are looking forward to hearing from you