Business Team Director Women´s wear to Lindex, Gothenburg
Maquire Sverige AB · Göteborg · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-23
Lindex is recruiting a **Business Team Director Women's wear** through Maquire Sverige AB, based at the head office in Gothenburg. The position carries total accountability for the women's wear business team across commercial, digital, financial, operational, sustainability, and people performance. Key duties include setting the category's strategic direction and business plan, translating company strategy into measurable outcomes, and driving sustainable growth and profitability. The role also involves developing the customer offer and commercial storytelling, partnering with the Head of Digital, and leading both leaders and staff with a focus on talent and succession. The position requires **regular on-site presence** in Gothenburg, working in English. Candidates must hold a relevant university degree alongside extensive experience in the relevant business area. Essential qualifications include **extensive leadership experience** with a proven track record of leading leaders, demonstrable experience managing a business or significant business area with full profit and loss responsibility, and experience driving organisational change and continuous improvement. Fluency in English is required. Advantageous qualities include a retail background connecting range, price, and customer experience, cross-functional leadership skills, experience leveraging customer and operational data for decisions, and a background in aligning business with digital stakeholders.
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, claes.berggren@maquire.se
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