Product Management Lead

Purpose of the job 

As an Product Management Lead you are responsible for formal staff responsibility for a number of product manager employees and consultants. You are together with a peer Product Management Lead responsible for building and running the Community of Practice for the competence area within your expertise. You enable a strong organizational health by making sure that your employees prioritizes both deliveries as well as own competence development. You work closely with other stakeholders to make sure your employees have the right competence and also the right resource setup when it comes to both employees and consultants. As a Product Management Lead you are responsible to ensure your employees can deliver in an efficient way according to set goals in a healthy worklife balance approach. 

Responsibilities  

• Responsible for acting as the employers extended arm to follow and implement H&M Groups vision goals strategies values policies and processes as well as acting as an ambassador representing the management internally and externally. 

• Responsible as team leader for a set of product managers heading their respective data and AI product teams. 

• Responsible for supporting employees development through continuous dialogue. 

• Set objectives and inspire team members based on specific competence development needs. 

• Responsible for working with performance management and salary review for your employees. 

• Responsibility for remaining compliant with laws and policies and act when necessary in regards to e.g. underperformance work environment rehab cases etc. 

• Recognize progress towards ambition and goals and reward a growth mindset. Be an ambassador as an active learner. 

• Financial responsibility for FTE & FTC budget. 

• Responsible for building a strong organizational health role & competence development. 

• Leveraging deep subject matter expertise. 

• Responsible for driving continuous learning & development activates within their unit and area of expertise. 

• Contribute to an outsidein vision for competence development in the area of expertise. 

• Remove impediments and enable good health within the unit/area. 

• Stakeholder management 

Qualifications :

Skills and abilities 

• Deep subject matter expertise within product management as well as data management 

• Formal staff responsibility 

• Ability to coach others in a way that enables them to grow professionally and to increase their performance 

• Proven experience in building a successful community of practice 

• Experience setting and handling resource allocation budgets 

• Ability to identify and contribute to employer branding activities 

• Create a strong team culture where people collaborate and grow together 

• Cultivate trust and empower others to both take responsibility and fail learn and grow  

• Handle difficult situations both in uncertain circumstances as well as in employee related matters 

• Strong interpersonal collaborative and communication skills 

Functional knowledge 

• Leadership 

• Staff responsibility 

• Recruitment 

• Performance development 

• Career planning 

• Community of Practice expertise  

• Coaching  

• Communication 

• Deep expertise within (data) product management 

Behavioral  

As a role model for our values and putting them into action you are expected to demonstrate excellent cognitive social and emotional skills and know how to nurture them in others by having the ability to 

• ... commit to directional decisions take ownership of the whole and collaborate across boundaries 

• create trust and dare to lead 

• ... communicate in a timely and clear way 

• ... strive for speed reduce complexity and focus on the outcome 

• stay curious and be open to new perspectives 

Additional Information :

This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. You will report to the Area Lead Product Data Management at Business Tech and AI Analytics and Data Tech Center.  

At H&M we have a strong valuedriven culture characterized by believing in people teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Youll be part of an important project at H&M Group with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference.  

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime