About this role
The opportunity
This role provides broad accountability for the performance and long-term development of the women's wear category. You influence the customer offer, category growth, innovation and commercial direction while helping establish an integrated way of working across business and digital functions.
You lead leaders and employees, develop talent and succession readiness, and build a culture based on ownership, clarity and responsibility. Through close collaboration with functional managers and other Business Team Directors, you also contribute to priorities that serve the wider business.
About the role
As Category Business Director – Women's wear, you hold full accountability for the business team’s commercial, digital, financial, operational, sustainability and people performance. As the primary business owner, you set the strategic direction, translate Lindex's strategy into a clear business plan and drive sustainable growth, profitability and long-term success.
Key responsibilities
Define the strategic direction, priorities and business plan for the women’s wear category.
Own the category’s business results across commercial, digital, financial, operational and sustainability performance.
Develop the customer offer, category growth, innovation and commercial storytelling.
Translate Lindex’s strategy into clear goals, actions and measurable outcomes.
Drive strategic change, continuous improvement and long-term business development.
Partner with the Head of Digital to align business and digital planning and execution.
Lead and develop leaders and employees, including talent development and succession readiness.
Align functions across reporting lines and balance category priorities with the needs of the wider business.
About you
You understand how customer behaviour, market developments and business performance translate into decisions that drive growth and results. You create clarity in complex situations, communicate with impact and enable others to take responsibility. You lead through change, address difficult issues constructively and bring different functions together around shared priorities.
To succeed in this role, you need:
A relevant university degree.
Extensive experience within the relevant business area.
Extensive leadership experience, including proven experience of leading leaders.
A proven track record of leading a business or significant business area with profit and loss responsibility.
Experience of driving organisational change, transformation and continuous improvement.
Fluency in English.
It is advantageous if you have
Experience from retail, including an understanding of how range, price and customer experience connect.
Experience of leading across reporting lines and building trust with teams, functional managers and stakeholders.
Experience of using customer behaviour, business performance and operational data to support decision-making.
Experience of aligning business and digital stakeholders around shared priorities.
Location and application
The position is based at Lindex head office in Gothenburg and requires regular on-site presence. English is the working language.
We warmly welcome your application by November 22nd via maquire.se (https://maquire.se/lediga-jobb/). If you have any questions, please contact Claes Berggren, 0727-520374, [email protected]
Maquire applies a fair selection process based on a clearly defined role profile. We do not use AI for screening or selection. Every application is reviewed by a human.