Fashion Garment Technician

Descripción de la empresa

As one of the world’s largest fashion companies with more than 120,000 employees worldwide, H&M is an exciting and dynamic place to pursue a career within the fashion industry. Our business concept is to offer fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way and with our fast expansion we are always looking for new talents. Would you like to be part of our team? H&M group comprises of nine independent brands: H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M Home, & Other Stories, ARKET and Afound. We have over 4,900 stores across more than 73 markets worldwide. Our values reflect the heart and soul of H&M. They define what it takes to work here and how we do things. When we interact with colleagues and customers around the world, our values help us develop and grow. We want to be at the forefront of both fashion and sustainability. Our employees play a key role and can contribute to more sustainable fashion, today and in the future.

Descripción del empleo
**What is Production?**

It's the place where design ideas are transformed into actual products. We are in multiple sourcing markets and are the direct point of contact for local suppliers. We work to ensure our products are of good quality and produced at the best price and in a sustainable way.

As a **Fashion Garment Technician (Product Fit/ Pattern Maker) **you play a key role in contributing towards securing best product from a customer perspective. You have ownership over the quality of the product from sample development to bulk production and the development of Supply Chain Partners in terms of product quality standards and expectations.

Product and product quality are at center of what we do. In this role, you will broadly look after quality aspects of diversified product from sample development to bulk inspection to ensure end to end quality. Therefore, your work area will be extended from supplier sample room development to product management in factory and stakeholder engagement in production office and supplier based on necessity. Keeping safety and user-friendliness in mind, you need to be engaged at the sample stages in product quality, fit and consumption. While doing this you need to conduct risk assessment and find solutions to problems. You need to have knowledge and **experience in pattern making, consumption, technical fitting problems.**

You are part of setting strategy and common methods to educate and develop our suppliers in product quality, fit, consumption and technical risk assessment. Educate and develop Suppliers towards self-reliance in the product flow in connection to the brands/assortment needs.

You work closely with the necessary stakeholders share information on cases/problems/solutions in order to strengthen product knowledge to ensure we deliver the best product.

You maintain close co-operation with H&M Suppliers and have a good knowledge of H&M Suppliers’ capabilities and abilities. You maintain close co-operation with Business and Production teams and co-operate, co-ordinate and communicate with all concerned stakeholders.

**Requisitos**:
As a **Fashion Garment Technician (Product Fit/ Pattern Maker)**, you deliver on the areas you have **ownership** for by living our values every day and primarily through **collaboration and teamwork.** You build strong trust with our suppliers and within business teams. You guide and direct business teams in terms of different technical options on how to improve our products.

You have a **proactive and solution-oriented** approach to manage current and future problems, and willing to share challenges with stakeholders, and create a shared baseline understanding between merchandising, product development and other quality teams. You have an approach to develop others all the time in terms of product quality and technical fitting areas.

You have **knowledge and experience** in a variety of production groups -** denim or jersey is a priority,** connecting to product and production quality, as well as pattern making, fit and related software’s.

**Communication skills** will also be a key element when deciding who we will be suitable for the role as you will need to influence decision makers and manage stakeholders to achieve goals.

Información adicional

We believe in a culture where we succeed as one team. At H&M the opportunities to grow are endless, either within your expertise area or by strengthening your leadership skills. And we encourage you to grow with us - by developing your own skills and together as a team create the best customer experience there is. So, bring out the entrepreneur within yourself and join our journey

**Do you think we are a match? We hope so**

We are looking forward to hearing from you