Construction & Facility Manager (Denmark, Norway & Iceland)

H&M is accelerating its transformation work further to exceed customers’ expectations. We’re building on our passion for the customer, upgrading the overall customer experience and taking it to the next level. We want to offer our customers a seamless omni experience on their own terms – where, when and how they want. This means that we will speed up integrating our channels further and developing our organization, with the aim to create omni customer experiences like no other.

The Expansion function supports this by adding meaningful growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build, and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. Within Construction & Facilities we supply NCG, build & maintain stores in line with customer and brand expectations – to secure an efficient store lifecycle.

Job Description
As the Construction and Facilities Manager, you will be leading the Construction and Facility (C&F) team for Denmark, Norway and Iceland. You will work towards aligned and cross-functional goals, driving omni sales performance and customer centricity in all parts of your work, closely with the Regional Head of C&F to set the strategy for the markets. Together with the C&F team in the sales market you secure a complete store lifecycle focus including investments, long-term cost, quality, sustainability, and compliance.

In this position you will lead a skilled and professional team composed of Project Managers, Facilities Managers and NCG Responsible to drive goals and set targets to secure long-term strategy for Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. You collaborate closely with Regional Head of Construction and Facilities and the local Expansion team to set and implement the strategy in your market.

Key responsibilities including areas such as:

• You distribute projects and service scope workload to the team taking into consideration project complexity, size of service scope, opening dates and geographical/logistic aspects.
• With the support of the Regional Procurement Specialist, you are responsible for the procurement strategy in your market, securing sufficient partners to enable expansion, service delivery and optimize overall investment and cost levels.
• You drive negotiations and budgeting process in targeted direction with business case behind each project.
• You secure that the long-term regional strategy is reflected in all procurement and sustainability activities by working closely with your team members.
• Secure that projects are managed in a professional way and ready in time, with expected quality, to the best cost, in a sustainable and compliant way.
• Drive alignment of quality expectations for stores and projects within the market and secure that the service scope delivery is meeting brand requirements and cost expectations.
• Secure health and safety for all projects and stores.

Qualifications
We see that you have a strong business mindset, communicate well and you are comfortable in making decisions. You have skills that allow you to work strategically, planning and foresee opportunities and improvements. As a person you are analytical, methodical, and cost conscious. You enjoy teamwork and effectively collaborate with a group of diverse people to achieve set goals and targets. You have a good understanding of the construction, facilities, and real estate market and secure that all processes in the market are optimized and adapted to local needs/risks.

Besides your personality we see that you have:

• At least 5 years of relevant working experience from Facility Management, Construction and/or real estate, preferably within the retail industry. And with 3 of those years in a leadership position with team responsibility.
• Good understanding of technical installations (such as HVAC, Fire Safety systems, electrical installations etc.), procurement, health & safety, facilities, or construction management techniques.
• Degree in Construction, Civil Engineering, Architecture or Business Administration or equivalent work experience.
• Any certificate within the Project Management, Construction or Facilities field is meriting.
• Experience from working in an international, matrix organization with several stakeholders and seniority levels.

Additional Information
We are more about personality and competence - leadership and value driven approach are key. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, apply by sending in your CV in English no later than September 6, 2024. This is a full-time permanent position. You will be placed in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Benefits
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.

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.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

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