Department Manager- The Galleria

H&M Group • Houston, TX

2h • Onsite

About The Position

As a Department Manager at H&M, you will lead and support your team, fostering an inclusive culture that promotes collaboration and an entrepreneurial spirit to ensure success for yourself, your team, and H&M. You are responsible for creating an excellent operational and visual experience for your store, customers, and colleagues. This involves understanding your store's strengths, opportunities, and competitors, analyzing sales, and developing plans to optimize results and profits. H&M's purpose is to liberate fashion for the many and shape a new world in fashion focused on unleashing self-expression. As a colleague, you are encouraged to be yourself and more, taking on new responsibilities, learning life skills, and achieving your dreams. The company is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging.

Requirements

• Be a strong leader who enjoys taking responsibility for others
• Be ambitious
• Be an effective communicator
• Be supportive
• Be an analytical solution finder
• Capable of working with numbers and managing statistics
• Be achievement-oriented, motivated by performance and competition to be truly customer centric

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the total OMNI customer experience in your store, ensuring visual and commercial curation according to global guidelines
• Representing yourself and the H&M brand positively during customer interactions
• Be aware of and take responsibility of your department's strengths and identifying commercial opportunities and acting on them
• Establish & analyze sales and budget goals, creating plans to optimize results
• Ensure customer service is provided in all areas of the store and that your team has the ability to work towards actively promoting and selling products to customers
• Following up that your team is actively promoting our Customer Loyalty App (Hello Member) & in-store sustainability initiatives
• Manage your department in a cost-efficient way
• Ensure correct routines in fitting room and checkout, including transaction, returns and exchanges
• Ensure all admin routines for both people and operations are handled in a correct way
• Keep up-to-date with fashion scene, trends, tendencies, styles, brands, products, competitors and relevant influencers, etc
• Ensure your team provides product and fashion knowledge as well as other relevant information during customer interactions
• Responsible for recruitment, onboarding, performance management, upskilling & developing your team in-store
• Complete performance evaluations and succession planning to support business & team needs
• Retain and share your knowledge and skills with your team
• Collaboration, planning & teamwork with in-store Visual Merchandiser team
• Give & receive feedback with your colleagues to learn, develop & support each other
• Responsible for the teams planning & scheduling
• Regular communication to store colleagues to inform, motivate and inspire – daily, weekly meetings, etc
• Ensure all procedures, routines, and legal requirements in all areas of the store are followed
• Participate in relevant available Onboarding & introduction processes, trainings and courses relevant for your role & future development
• Secure a clean and tidy sales floor and back of house including stockroom areas
• Ensure high fashion quality, visual and commercial product presentation, with good garment care
• Secure good stock levels and provide input on allocation to Area team
• Ensure the full garment cycle – from delivery to garment presentation – and fitting room routines are according to our standards and routines set internally, utilizing all tools and technology provided
• Upkeep & follow best practice for any in-store OMNI Services & in-store tech services/tools, etc (Instore Care App, Click & Collect, Smart Store etc)
• Secure a strong balance and the maintenance of price signs in-store and throughout the sales floor/store following guidelines according to global and local strategies & sales market/regional requirements to ensure a strong and consistent price perception throughout store
• Updating & upkeep of BOH Areas for all colleagues (key information, health & safety, tidiness etc)
• Responsible for opening & closing of store daily

Benefits

• Access to Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs)
• Access to a large global talent community, where career growth and aspirations have no limits
• Comprehensive benefits inclusive of health insurance, wellness and family support programs, company match retirement plan, paid leave programs, and paid time off, including a community day to serve your local community
• Employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS
• Attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe
• Staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online
• Included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP
• 25% Staff Discount
• Medical, Pharmacy Vision and Dental Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Vacation, Wellness, Holiday and Parental Pay
• 401K
• Commuter Benefits
• Health and Dependent Care FSA
• Additional Voluntary Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees