Public Affairs Manager

India continues to be an important focus market for the H&M brand with significant growth potential and unique characteristics. Establishing India as its own H&M Region was first step to cater for the unique needs of India and to improve our local customer relevance.

Our colleagues will play a critical role to elevate the full H&M experience in the eyes of our consumers through Product, Experience and Brand, guided by our brand plan.

As the Public Affairs Manager, you hold the regional public affairs agenda together by monitoring, prioritizing, initiating and executing appropriate public affairs strategies aligned with regional business goals and global public affairs approach.

Key responsibilities include:

Monitoring the regional political agenda

• Follow and stay up to date with internal goals & agendas and external policy agendas in your region
• Coordinate analysis and possible impact in upcoming policies and legislations together with relevant functions and other internal experts both regionally and globally

Set and execute regional public affairs strategy through proactive and/or reactive engagement

• Assess and plan influencing opportunities
• Develop company responses and positions

Effective collaboration through engagement with internal stakeholders for aligned strategies and positions

• Where relevant be a stakeholder in internal strategies to ensure public affairs perspective is considered and aligned goals.
• Ensure cross functional collaboration for holistic and aligned strategies.

Contribute to Public Affairs tools and ways of working, including internal knowledge sharing

• Ensure alignment of regional public affairs strategy with global strategies/positions
• Contribute to development of tools, materials, processes and collaboration among functions for effective and aligned public affairs work throughout H&M Group organization

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