Job Description

Curious about what it’s like to see the world of Expansion at H&M? Are you eager to get hands-on experience and turn your theoretical knowledge into practical skills. If you are intrigued by how the world’s largest fashion brand operates, then this opportunity is for you! Level up your learning journey and gain those essential skills that will support you professional growth.

As an Expansion Intern at H&M, you will get the opportunity to spend 10 weeks learning about our business and different functions while getting real-life experience working on current projects. Additionally, it’s a great networking opportunity collaborating with colleagues across the company and connecting with interns from other programs to explore the versatility of our business.

Retail Expansion is focused on store projects and everything connected to customer experience. During the internship, you will get exposure to Leasing, Construction, Facilities, Retail Tech, Retail Space, Controlling, Legal and Store Design, to develop a holistic understanding of how Retail works. Day to day you will work alongside Leasing Managers and Expansion Controllers who will play a key role in mentoring, developing your skills and offer different training opportunities. You will have a network of support from experienced colleagues that will be on hand to help you learn.

This is your chance to launch a stellar career and help us transform the fashion world by creating the ultimate customer experience. Let’s shape the future together!

What you’ll be doing:

• Learn about our store portfolio strategy & optimization
• Support analysis of portfolio KPIs/ROI, business cases
  
  
  

What you’ll be learning:

• How we work with our store portfolio to drive ROI and profitability
• How we build and maintain stores in line with brand & customer expectations
  
  
  

Qualifications

To be successful in the role as Expansion Intern, we believe that you are curious about numbers, real estate portfolio, customer experience and understanding how to analyze data to drive profitability.

Additionally, we see that you are:

• A student studying Real Estate, Business, Finance or similar, who is in the later stages of their academic career and will have coursework remaining after completing this internship (preferably in their 2nd year of Bachelor’s or 1st year of Master’s)
• Analytical
• Business acumen
• Curious & creative
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal and with excellent communication skills.
  
  
  

Additional Information

This is a full-time internship located at our Regional Office in Barcelona. We are looking for someone to start from Early June for 10 weeks.

Good to know – Application & Practical Information

Excited to join us? Then please get in touch. The last day to apply is 1 of April. Due to GDPR we can only handle applications via our career site.

Send us your application in English including a resume and proof of education.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Benefits

This is a paid internship program, meaning you will work full-time and receive a market-based salary. Other H&M Group benefits will be shared later in the process. This position requires a valid permit to live and work in Spain.

Recruitment Process & Timeline

When you apply for a Expansion internship role, we will have the following steps in the process:

Screening questions: when you apply, you will be asked to answer a few short questions to assess your eligibility for the role.

Online assessment: you will be asked to complete an online analytical assessment, between 7-9 April.

Final decision: our goal is to be able to let you know the outcome of the recruitment process by 22 April.

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.