Construction & Facilities Manager South America

**Descripción de la empresa**
H&M, one of the largest fashion companies in the world, offers endless career opportunities. A lively, active and diverse work environment. A place where the customer is always our center of attention.
**Descripción del empleo**
As a Construction & Facility Manager you are responsible for all the C&F activities and you set the C&F strategy for your market, driving goals, and setting relevant targets to secure the long-term strategy is achieved. You will collaborate with Regional Head of C&F and the stakeholders, and you are responsible for leading the C&F team.

**Some of the responsibilities and tasks, at a general level, are**:
**_ Strategy, goals, and decision making._**
- Have a good understanding of the construction, facilities, and real estate to secure that all processes in the market are optimized and adapted to the local needs/risks.
- Based on expansion plans and historical information set ambitious short
- and long-term goals and strategy together with the regional head of C&F.
- Overview the procurement strategy to secure business partners to enable expansion, service delivery and optimize overall investment and cost levels.
- Set ambitious department goals and motivate team in achieving them.
- Understand the business case behind each project to be able to drive negotiations and budgeting process in the targeted direction.
- Align department goals with other department’s goals securing expansion plan & KPI’s.
- Secure that the long-term regional strategy is reflected in all procurement
- and sustainability activities by working closely with your team members.
- Set smart targets with actions and deliverables together with the team and follow up on their implementation.
- You distribute projects and service scope workload to the team taking into consideration project complexity, size of service scope, opening dates and geographical/logistic aspects.
- You delegate tasks and responsibilities efficiently and follows up on their completion.
- Secure that projects are managed in a professional way and ready in time, with expected quality, to the best cost, in a sustainable and compliant way.
- Drive alignment of quality expectations for stores and projects within the market and secure that the service scope delivery is meeting brand requirements and cost expectations.
- Secure health and safety for all projects and stores.

**_ Collaboration_**
- You work in close collaboration with the Regional Head of Construction and Facilities to set and implement the strategy in your market.
- You work in close collaboration with Expansion Manager and Sales Market Controller to secure the best overall result for the business.
- You understand involvement of all other stakeholders and secure their input in the project time plan and service scope delivery.

**_ Leading your team_**
- Create conditions to enable performance of teams and individuals.
- Identify and develop talents to build (future) organization and diverse teams.
- Strengthen teamwork and foster cross functional collaboration.

**Requisitos** Requirements for the position**:

- Degree in Construction, Civil Engineering, Architecture or Business Administration or equivalent work experience.
- Have a good understanding about technical installations (such as HVAC, Fire Safety systems, electrical installations etc.), procurement, health & safety, facilities or construction management techniques.
- Any certificate within the C&F field is meriting.
- At least 5 years of relevant working experience from Facility Management, Construction and/or real estate, preferably within the retail industry.
- Experience managing a team.
- Experience from working in an international, matrix organization with several stakeholders and seniority levels.
- Great communication skills with proven experience.
- Knowledge in MS Office, more specifically Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and MS Teams.
- ** Fluent English and preferably speaks, Spanish as well.**

**_
YOUR LEADERSHIP_**
- You are a values ambassador, and you believe in the power of teamwork.
- You lead with vision and you make relevant decisions to achieve long-term results, by setting priorities and following up your results.
- You are a driver, you take the ownership to set challenging goals for the business, others and yourself and you are motivated from the achievements.
- Having the feedback culture in mind, you develop others by coaching and delegating effectively and you recognize other team members great contribution.
- You have great communication skills to be able to build relationships across functions.

**Información adicional**
What awaits you?

A great opportunity to learn about one of the most important functions of H&M.

We offer you a solid corporate culture characterized by our values, teamwork and entrepreneurial spirit.

Do include your resume, cover letter and if applicable, any leadership, competency, and Strength Finder reports

This position is base