H&M Expansion Manager Italy Milano

H&M Expansion Manager Italy
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Company Description

The key to building a great look is combining bold pieces.

The key to building a great company is combining different bold people.

We take pride in our history of making fashion accessible to the many, and strive to build a more welcoming, inclusive and sustainable industry.

But we also know that you can't change the world without great people and great teams.

Daily, we are creating with you that special kind of workplace, where unique talents from all over the world come together to form the best of teams, where we foster a culture of creativity, innovation, collaboration and growth.

At H&M, we welcome you to be yourself and challenge you to grow and make a difference.

Help us reimagine the future of an entire industry, making everyone look, feel and do good.

Be proud of where you came from & amazed by where you'll go.

Be yourself & more at H&M.

**Job Description**:

As Expansion Manager you lead a team of Lease Managers and Legal counsels and co-lead a team of C&F managers and Controller(s).

You set strategy and targets for growth - portfolio management - and negotiation for the sales market.

You are responsible for budgets, P&Ls and sales forecasts within the sales market.

You set a foundation for collaboration and alignment across expansion functions on strategy and projects.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Leading your team_

- Create conditions to enable performance of teams and individuals.

- Identify and develop talents in order to build (future) organisation and diverse teams.

- Strengthen teamwork and foster cross functional collaboration.

- Strategy and targets_

- You create expansion strategy and portfolio management plan for the sales market.

- You have the ownership of the financially and commercially healthy portfolio and new project performance.

- Have the customer in focus in the expansion strategy and location selection.

- Have a good understanding of the leasing, legal and the real estate market and secure that all strategy, negotiations and contract execution is in line with company, legal and ethical standards.

- Set long

- and short-term goals for the department in order to reach the company, regional and sales market objectives.

- Set ambitious department goals and motivate team in achieving them.

- Understand the business case behind each project in order to be able to coach in negotiations and on strategy.

- Align department goals with other departments' goals securing yearly expansion plan & KPI's.

- Set smart targets with actions and deliverables together with the team and follow up on their implementation.

- 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.

- You plan weekly, quarterly and yearly activities taking into consideration local and regional deliverables.

- Budget, P&L and sales_

- You secure that all projects meet their sales, cost and investment budgets.

- You have responsibility for the profitability and the occupancy cost level of the portfolio and take the relevant actions to secure the financial health of the portfolio long term.

- You follow up on all new projects' sales and cost and draw learnings for future projects and budgeting.

- Collaboration_

- You work in close collaboration with the Regional Head of Expansion to set and implement the strategy in your market.

- Secure high professionalism of teams in your market by giving clear feedback on development areas, providing ideas and promoting cross-department and cross-brand collaboration.

- You work in close collaboration with Regional Expansion Manager to secure the best overall result for the business.

- Close collaboration with the C&F manager and Sales Market Controller.

- Ensure cross functional collaboration of the Leasing, Legal, Controlling and C&F team.

**Qualifications**:

**Education & Experience

- Degree in Business Administration, Law or Engineering.

- At least 5 years of working experience from leasing, controlling and/or real estate, preferably within the retail industry.

- Experience from managing a team.

- Experience from working in an international, matrix organization with several stakeholders and seniority levels.

**Skills

- Coaching and leadership skills

- Leasing skills and good legal understanding

- Strategic planning and long-term vision

- Planning & Organizing

- Good financial understanding

- Result driven

- Knowledge in MS Office, more specifically Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and MS Teams.

- Have excellent communication skills, including fluent written and spoken English and Italian.

Knowledge in other languages is meriting.

- Are an excellent relationship builder.

- Ability to deal with fast-paced environment and to multitask

- Ability to maintain high level of confidentiality

Additional Information

- Your CV and motivation letter