Department Manager (MyTown Shopping Centre)

H&M; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion retailer in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Department Manager to lead their team, ensuring outstanding customer experiences and operational excellence. The position requires retail management experience and strong leadership skills, as well as the ability to analyze sales performance and optimize results. Join a collaborative environment where your passion for fashion and sales can thrive. Attractive benefits include employee discounts across brands. Applications are accepted until January 16th, 2026.

Benefits

Global employee discount

Competitive local benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in retail management and operations.
• Strong leadership skills with a passion for coaching.
• Expertise in sales planning and using customer-centric tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
• Analyze sales performance and set optimization goals.
• Manage team scheduling and recruitment.

Skills

Retail management experience

Strong leadership skills

Sales planning and analysis

Effective communication

Analytical mindset

Job description

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Department Manager, you’ll be the leader supporting and encouraging your whole team. By fostering an inclusive culture that promotes collaboration and an entrepreneurial spirit, you’ll create an environment where everyone can thrive. Acting in line with our values, you’ll contribute to both your own success and the success of the company.

You will:

• Lead your team to deliver an outstanding customer experience by ensuring excellent operational and visual standards, while actively promoting and selling our products.

• Take responsibility for your store and department’s strengths, analyse sales performance, identify commercial opportunities, set goals, and create plans to optimize results, profits, and stock levels.

• Manage team planning, scheduling, and ensure seamless opening and closing routines.

• Recruit, onboard, and develop your team while fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture that promotes growth and innovation.

• Stay updated on fashion trends, customer preferences, and competitors to maintain a competitive edge.

• Represent yourself and the brand positively during all customer interactions.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Our stores are the heart of our company, where customers experience our brand firsthand. As part of the dynamic Store Team, every role—from Sales Advisors, Department Managers, to Store Managers and Visual Merchandisers—contributes to creating an inspiring and welcoming environment. You’ll also connect with the wider Area Team, collaborating across stores to share insights and drive success together.

Alongside your team, you'll play a vital role in helping customers feel confident and express their individuality with the latest trends and timeless styles. By building meaningful connections with customers in our stores, we make fashion accessible and sustainable for all.

This role will be reporting to the Store Manager.

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for people with…

• Experience in retail management and operations.

• Strong leadership skills, with a passion for coaching and developing teams while exemplifying company values and culture.

• Expertise in sales planning, analysis, and follow‑up, using customer‑centric tools and reporting.

And people who are…

• Strong and confident leaders who inspire, coach, and develop their teams with integrity.

• Thriving in collaborative, dynamic environments, with a solution‑focused mindset.

• Motivated to create great customer experiences while promoting and selling our products.

• A keen interest in fashion trends, commerciality, and competitor insights to drive sales.

• Effective communicators, creative, and curious.

• Flexible, analytical, and achievement‑oriented, with the ability to manage statistics and work with numbers.

WHO WE ARE

H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our colleagues attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.

• All our colleagues receive a global employee discount, 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 global employee discount, all our colleagues are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP.

• 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.

JOIN US

Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.

Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application in English as soon as possible, but no later than January 16th 2026. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.