Product Developer Heavy Woven - H&M Womenswear

H & M Hennes & Mauritz Sverige AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 480,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discount on all H&M Group brands

H&M Incentive Program - HIP

Extensive development opportunities

Job summary

A leading global fashion retailer is seeking a Product Developer for their Heavy Woven division based in Stockholm. This full-time, temporary position involves shaping the womenswear trousers assortment and driving product development from concept to final product. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in product development, particularly with heavy woven garments, and a strong understanding of current fashion trends.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in a similar role as Product Developer or Buyer.
• Experience working with heavy woven garments, preferably trousers.
• Strong fashion intelligence and a keen eye for current trends.
• Proven track record creating womenswear products with fashion sense
• Strong fashion intelligence and trend eye
• Passion for product development
• Driven, structured and proactive
• Strong salesmanship with a results-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player with flexible, solution-driven approach
• Ability to identify opportunities and efficiencies

Responsibilities

• Shape the H&M Womenswear trousers assortment.
• Drive product development from concept to final product.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure product quality.
• Ensure quality, fit and customer-centred trousers offering

Skills

Experience in a similar role

Fashion intelligence

Excellent communication skills

Salesmanship

Ability to identify opportunities

Education

Education in textiles, buying or product development

Job description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Product Developer within Heavy Woven, you will play a key role in shaping the H&M Womenswear trousers assortment. You will set and drive both short and long‑term plans for your category, ensuring alignment with our overall assortment direction. With a strong commercial mindset, deep product knowledge within heavy woven trousers and the ability to translate trends into relevant opportunities, you will identify seasonal keys and act fast on what’s emerging. You will continuously refine our product and component work to build a strong, competitive and customer‑centred trousers offer.

You’ll take ideas from concept to final product, driving development forward and ensuring smooth cross‑functional collaboration in a fast‑moving environment. You will work closely with a product manager, planner, designer and pattern maker, and partner with our production team to bring each piece to life with the right quality, fit and feel. Your passion for heavy woven products and your ability to make things happen will be essential in creating high‑quality, on‑trend trousers that resonate with our customers.

WHO YOU ARE

Qualifications:

• Five or more years of experience in a similar role as Product Developer or Buyer
• Experience working with heavy woven garments, preferably trousers
• Education in textiles, buying or product development
• A proven track record of creating products for the womenswear customer with excellent fashion sensibility
• Strong fashion intelligence and a keen eye for current trends
• A deep passion for products and product development
• Driven, structured and proactive in taking initiatives
• Strong salesmanship with a results‑oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills
• A strong team player with a flexible, solution‑driven approach
• Ability to identify opportunities, improvements and efficient ways of working

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.

JOIN US

Additional information: This is a full‑time, temporary position, with placement in Stockholm. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application including CV in English as soon as possible. Interviews will be held continuously. (For internal candidates, please initiate a dialogue with your manager before applying.) If you are currently in permanent employment with H&M you will keep your permanent employment even if you take on a temporary position for a limited time.

Benefits

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. 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. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program - HIP.

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.

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

Location: Mäster Samuelsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden