Contribute & Grow Partner Full Time NEW

Job Description

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Contribute & Grow Partner, your main focus will be to enable the Grow & Contribute agenda by implementing global people processes, supporting leaders with insights, and building capability through training, coaching, and development. You translate global frameworks into practical local solutions, helping teams grow, develop, and perform through strong processes and meaningful employee experiences.

This hybrid role reports into our People Business Partner and is based out of New York Support Office.

A Day in the Life

Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will include the following responsibilities*

Process Implementation

• Drive high-quality implementation and adoption of global Grow & Contribute processes by embedding them into day-to-day operations, ensuring relevance to local context while maintaining global intent and standards
• Act as the local subject-matter partner for Grow & Contribute, enabling leaders, HR Business Partners, and HR Generalists to confidently own and consistently apply people processes and tools
• Act as a bridge between global design and local reality, representing local needs and constraints while reinforcing consistency in philosophy, principles, and ways of working
• Facilitate, curate, and implement relevant learning programs, supporting local adaptations and strategies
• Align performance development and learning processes with goals and organizational objectives

Insights & Support

• Monitor effectiveness, adoption, and outcomes using data and feedback; translate insights into concrete improvement actions and provide structured input to global HR PLC Specialists / SMEs to strengthen process design and usability
• Support the Head of People / People Manager with specialist insight and analysis to inform people strategy, prioritization, and forward-looking decisions linked to business needs
• Measure and analyze leadership performance and development needs.

Capability Building & People Development

• Build sustainable people and leadership capability through training, enablement, and coaching, ensuring long-term, independent application of processes and practices
• Provide personalized coaching to managers for targeted skill development.
• Facilitate leadership development interventions based on local needs.
• Coach people leaders on goal setting, performance metrics, and improvement strategies.

Qualifications

We are looking for people with…

• Relevant university degree (e.g. Human Resources, Business Administration, or similar)
• Experience implementing and enabling people processes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, with accountability for adoption and outcomes
• Ability to translate global frameworks into practical, locally workable solutions while maintaining consistency and intent
• Proven capability to partner with leaders and HR stakeholders to build capability, influence behaviour, and drive sustainable change
• Data-informed and improvement-oriented mindset, with the ability to use insights to strengthen execution and impact
• Strong facilitation, communication, and collaboration skills, with confidence to operate independently across functions, markets, and regions

Additional Information

​WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE

• We value diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability
• We pride ourselves on being a values-driven organization, guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
• You’ll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues

• We are an inclusive company where you’re encouraged to be yourself at work
• You will have access to a large global talent community, where career growth and aspirations have no limits
• You’ll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M, and COS

*This job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job and is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, and responsibilities assigned for this job at the company’s discretion.

Compensation: annual salary is $120,320 **

H&M, in good faith, has assessed this posted range of compensation as the accurate range for this role and location at the time of this posting. H&M may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications. This range may be modified in the future.