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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
About the team and the role:
We are hiring for a Business Development Manager to play a pivotal role in driving eBay’s growth across key categories. With a passion for sustainability, a background working in fashion business development or sales, this is the perfect opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference in how Germany shops.
This role is critical in helping to shape the category strategy, and execute it through acquiring strategically important sellers, brands and retailers to ensure that eBay has the inventory to continue to grow the category.
The role is responsible for building, leading and delivering the end to end acquisition pipeline to optimise the selection of brands and inventory on the eBay platform for customers.
If you have strong industry contacts, a great marketplace background in acquiring brands and sellers that customers love through a high energy, innovative approach that brings fresh ideas to the table, we would love to hear from you !
What you will accomplish:
Identify targets and a network of contacts for both the short and long term acquisition of businesses new to eBay. Through running a significant sales pipeline, providing a constant stream of new inventory to site from such brands & sellers for the ‘Trading’ function to using our regular promotional cycles, it will deliver on a range of critical metrics and success measures.
Work with newly onboarded brands and sellers to deliver on their readiness to trade ensuring they are optimizing the full trading capability of the platform, the role will also build and expand partnerships with marketplace agencies / service providers who have limited presence on eBay today to further drive seller and inventory acquisition to grow the eBay business.
Constantly innovate, develop your operating model to keep pace with the constantly evolving ecommerce and commerce market plus building the team’s execution and operational capability, this exciting opening will drive procedural change and business performance.
What will you bring:
Fashion expertise: a validated background within the fashion industry, with hands-on experience across business development, sales, or retail. Brings a strong understanding of market dynamics, consumer trends, and brand needs, with a clear perspective on what drives success for fashion partners.
eCommerce & Marketplaces knowledge: a validated background and understanding of the marketplaces/platform market, its competitors and supporting businesses (i.e. listing management; integrators; logistics; customer services) with a clear point of view on what is required for our partners to succeed in this space. Fashion experience is required.
New business & commercial expertise: experience in developing new business for a large organization, having led e-commerce commercial teams and consistently delivered strategies effectively even under challenging circumstances.
Relationship management: builds and sustains relationships across all functions and levels internally in the organization, to ensure flawless integration and detailed execution of plans. The ability to apply influencing and negotiation skills with external businesses to build and maintain mutually beneficial commercial relations – with a deep understanding of brand, seller & partner needs, challenges and opportunities for growth.
Strategic & Analytical orientation: a keen strategic and analytical problem solver with the knack of sifting through detail, and putting complex ideas into clear frameworks. Insists on proof in data, peeling back layers to understand root causes, and uses data to drive innovation and decisions.
Fluency in German
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