Commercial Business Analyst

Job Description

As Commercial Business Analyst, you are responsible for driving the strategic insight work and analysis of our merchandising through advanced data, customer and consumer insights in regard to our product. You will independently be able to set the scope and initiate analysis deepening on the need of the merchandising organization, demonstrate leadership, analytical prowess, and a deep understanding of industry trends.​

​You have a deep interest in retail analytics, inventory optimization and merchandising strategy development. You are customer and sales-driven professional with a strategic mindset. You thrive working in a fast pace, in and agile environment. You are natural team player that strives to foster collaboration across channels, roles and functions.​

Key responsibilities​

• Conduct in-depth analysis of sales trends, customer behaviors and market dynamics to identify growth opportunities and areas for improvement; using statistical models and forecasting techniques to drive data driven decision-making.​

• You stay abreast of industry trends, competitor product strategies, and emerging technologies to challenge current plans, maintain competitive advantage and support executional excellence by supporting with market intelligence in how to position, activate and optimize our offers.​

• Analyze (and align with Customer Activation) SEO insights to support the SEO with our assortment strategy in close collaboration with merchandising managers / ecommerce leads as well as drive insights to support assortment strategy for all our channels; retail, digital and marketplaces.​

• You drive projects and build business cases for new product categories, sales channels and other business opportunities to support new sales and profit growth.​

• Follow up on our full (omni, retail and ecom) commercial initiatives and build strong case for improvement in our discount strategy, leveraging web analytics, customer insights, sales and cost data; enabling best possible commercial decision.

Qualifications

To be successful in the role as Commercial Business Analyst, you should have strong commercial focus and are insight and data driven, with proven ability to drive results and work towards goals. You should have a broad merchandising knowledge and commercial experience that understands the total picture from customer demands on our offers.​

​What you need to succeed:​

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Economics or Business degree/relevant

  qualifications

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• Strong in driving commercial product excellence, strategic and analytical, with deep experience in business case building as well as follow up and estimate performance.​

• Understanding of product, stocks and lifecycle management.​

• High level of salesmanship and analytical proficiency; is an advance excel user.​

• Effective collaborator with strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Additional Information

This is a full-time position, reporting to the Regional Head of Merchandising for India.

This position is based at the Support Office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than June 20th, 2024 . Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Global 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.

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.

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.

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M here .