Quality Assurance-beauty/chemist

**Company Description**
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M

Beauty Production Quality Department is working with all brands within H&M Group who develop and produce private label cosmetics. H&M Group does not own any factories or production plants; instead, H&M Group works with several independent cosmetic contract manufacturers located mainly in EU and Asia. We are now looking for an experienced Chemist to join our team. Role is located in Dehli, India and will oversee and support the India beauty production.

This role will report to the Global Product Quality Manager for Beauty Production.

You will be responsible for driving implementation of H&M Beauty’s quality requirements, methods and routines to secure a strong and consistent understanding within suppliers and production units.

You will support manufacturers and H&M internal teams during product development and production. You will secure product quality and compliance to make sure products comply with H&M Group requirements.

You set actions in order to solve current and future quality problems/stopped orders/customer claims.

You will be working close together with our in-house chemist team, Quality Managers, Merchandisers, and our contract manufacturers.

**Main responsibilities in the role**
- Secure regional manufacturer base (have a well-functioning quality management system and comply with GMP requirements)
- Secure that regional manufacturer’s are updated on H&M Group’s requirements and routines
- Work closely with team to secure products from regulatory and quality point of view
- Work proactively to prevent quality issues during development and mass production
- Support during production/order release
- Understand H&M chemical requirements and ensure that all requirements are followed
- Secure that documentation is submitted to H&M from manufacturer’s in time
- Educate, evaluate and support suppliers on how to comply with H&M Group’s requirements
- Support at authority audits, customer questions etc.
- Perform risk assessment
- Review and approve documents such as IN standard test reports, ingredient lists, product information files, etc.

**Qualifications**
- Hold a degree in Chemistry
- 5 years of working experience from Cosmetic industry; within product development, quality assurance, quality control, or regulatory affairs
- Good knowledge in India cosmetics regulation
- Experience from Good Manufacturing Practice
- Organized person that can manage documentation, materials and complex information
- Hold analytical skills
- Have strong cooperation & communication skills

**Additional Information**
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, Afound. 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 our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

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.