Job Title : JUNIOR REAL ESTATE/LEASE MANAGER - H&M Belgium/Luxembourg
Location : 1000 Brussels
Company : H&M
Salary :
Open Date : 2023-01-28
Close Date : 2023-05-28

Company Description

Do you want to join H&M Group on a journey, defining seamless omni customer experience? Do you have a genuine passion for growing business and see yourself in a role contributing to added customer value and strong brands? Then join us and take part in setting how we work to deliver an outstanding omni offer for our customers.

The H&M Group operates more than 4400 stores in more than 75 countries with 7 different group brands. We continue to expand worldwide as one of the largest fashion companies in the world.

The Expansion function is here to support in adding meaningful growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. We add new stores and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, relocations and consolidations.

Job Description

Job Description

On this journey we´re all collaborating to create the best omni customer offer for our customers and as a Junior Real Estate / Lease Manager for H&M Belgium and Luxembourg you will be a key player in making this happen. You will work closely with the Head of Expansion to execute the expansion strategy and meet long-term objectives for your market. Together with the team, you will manage our physical store portfolio, negotiations and set a foundation for collaboration and alignment across expansion functions on strategy and projects.

Key responsibilities include areas such as:

• Setting the OMNI strategy for your market portfolio, mapping the full potential within your geographic region.
• Negotiating the best possible deal with key property owners and agents and recommending business cases based on market OMNI strategy.
• Taking ownership of optimizing your portfolio through opening, renegotiating, rebuilding, moving and closing stores.
• Interacting and working with multiple functions and stakeholders in the company to create solid business cases, budgets, P&L’s, sales forecasts.
• Secure a long term healthy & relevant portfolio within your market.

Qualifications

Qualifications

We see that you are a result driven person who enjoys negotiating and managing multiple stakeholders and complexity. We believe that you are ambitious, competitive, humble and a fast learner. You have great analytical skills and leadership capabilities as well as a strong track record of results. As a person, we believe you value and enjoy taking ownership, responsibility, work at fast pace, teamwork and straight forward communication with a flexible mindset and attitude.

To be successful you need to have knowledge on how to optimize sales as well as to have an interest in and an understanding of retail in general. You are positive, have exceptional communication and presentation skills the ability to get everyone on board. On top of this you need to be confident and not afraid to leave your comfort zone.

Besides your personality we see that you have:

• A Business or Engineering degree.
• 1-2 years of relevant working experience in retail, real estate, sales or finance.
• Strong analytical skills, a strategic approach and ability to phrase a clear recommendation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and confidence to take difficult conversations. Experience in negotiation is a plus.
• Strong in planning and executing together with a “can-do attitude”.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a growth mindset.
• Team player and overall strong ambassador of our values.
• Fluent in English, and French or Dutch.
• Strong Microsoft Suite skills (Powerpoint, Excel).
• Flexibility to travel within the market on a frequent basis.

Being part of our omni growth journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for an open-minded team player that by being curious, innovative, and forward-thinking, wants to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work goal oriented and give it everything you got!

Additional Information

If you feel that your profile is a match send us your application through our website.

We are a company that values personality traits rather than only qualifications, so don’t worry if your skills aren’t a perfect match. We are constantly looking for people to join our teams from all backgrounds as we believe in dynamic and diverse team setups. This is a permanent position based at our Belgium/Luxembourg Support Office in Brussels, Belgium.

H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.

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