Job Description
Job Description
Join & Other Stories in a role where numbers meet creativity. As Senior Business Controller, you’ll turn insights into impact and help guide the brand’s commercial direction.
Your Responsibilities:
What you will do:
- Leading analysis-to-action initiatives to identify opportunities for profitable growth and improved performance.
- Providing commercial insights on assortment, performance, and customer behavior to support data driven decision making.
- Contributing to the strategy process together with the Head of Buying Controlling, ensuring plans and KPIs align with business objectives.
- Acting as an informal leader within the controller team, supporting colleagues in prioritization, development, and strategic execution.
- Balancing long-term strategic work with follow-up on plans, deadlines, and targets in a brand undergoing transformation.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
As Senior Business Controller, you will work closely with the Head of Buying Controlling and the controller team, partnering with Buying and Sales to support assortment and commercial planning. You will also collaborate with creative functions, including the atelier in Paris, ensuring that commercial and creative perspectives align in cross‑functional decision‑making.
Qualifications
We are looking for people with…
- Strong experience as a Business Controller within retail.
- Excellent analytical capabilities and the ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
- Strong Excel skills; experience with Power BI is a plus.
- Demonstrated leadership through driving projects, initiatives, or workstreams with structure and accountability.
- Understanding of assortment planning, buying levels, and quantification.
- Strong communication skills in English.
And people who are…
- Collaborative & Inclusive — works effectively with others and values diversity.
- Innovative & Flexible — adapts to change and brings creative solutions.
- Action oriented & Proactive — takes initiative and drives progress.
- Taking Ownership — takes responsibility for outcomes and ensures follow through.
- Clear & Openminded — communicates directly, listens actively, and remains receptive to new perspectives.
Additional Information
This is a full time temporary contract for 12 months based at our Head Office in Stockholm Sweden.
If you feel this opportunity is exciting feel free to apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than the 6⁄3, Due to data policies, we only accept applications through our career page.
We value collaboration and believe that great ideas thrive when we work closely together. Therefore, this role is primarily office-based, with four days per week at the office to foster teamwork and engagement. One day per week, you’ll have the flexibility to work remotely.
Please note this position is offered on a local contract, therefore you should have the legal right to work in Sweden before applying. Other candidates are welcome to register their interest, and we will keep you in mind for future opportunities.
WHO WE ARE
& Other Stories is a modern fashion brand that tells expressive stories. Designed for everyday living – with its excitement, curiosity and imperfections – our clothes empower those who think differently. Learn more about & Other Stories here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
We offer all our employees attractive benefits with broad development opportunities. All our employees receive a staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. 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 this, & Other Stories-based colleagues also receive:
- 30 days holiday
- A collective agreement which includes pension and life insurance
- Wellness benefit 4000kr/year
- Benify Benefits Portal
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.
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.
We look forward to hearing from you
To ensure we provide an insightful experience to our candidates, and we support their understanding of the role scope and responsibilities for this role, we use an online assessment method for skills-based recruitment with our recruitment processes. You will need to complete it as part of the application and screening process. Your responses will be scored by an assessment tool that applies predefined criteria set by H&M Group.
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