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Country Manager – Korea & Japan

Employer
Vestiaire Collective
Location
Ideally located in Seoul (Korea) but the person will spend the onboarding of 6 months in Hong Kong.
Salary
TBC
Closing date
3 Jul 2020

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Function
Marketing
Level
Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

At Vestiaire Collective, we are committed to delivering the best experience for our loyal community of buyers and sellers. We are growing our team and our business into a global brand and the leaders in circularity in fashion. We want everyone we work with to be change-makers, to think differently, and to innovate without compromise.

About the role:

Vestiaire Collective is looking for a talented Country Manager to launch the Korean market and drive its expansion from Hong Kong. Japan market might be also included depending on the candidate profile.

You should be a self-starter, detail-oriented and customer-focused, with a successful experience in e-commerce and consulting firms.

What you will do:

Pre-launch:

  • Leads the definition of the market entry strategy in Korea (& Japan)
  • Leads the partnership with Naver and optimize VC store on Naver Shopping platform
  • Project manages the Korean launch with internal stakeholders (tech, product, finance etc)

Post launch:

  • Owns the P&L for Korea and is responsible for the country’s performance
  • Writes down and executes the strategy plan to grow the business and outperform targets set for the country
  • Measures and analyses performance through a set of KPIs
  • Works collaboratively with the Marketing team to develop local marketing strategies, partnerships as well as events to grow the business
  • Leverage existing contacts, relationships, and network to drive business and generate sales, while maintaining strong relationships with our current seller base
  • Depending on the traction of the market, hires and manages a local team

About you: 

  • Academic degree preferably in business school or finance
  • 5 to 10 years work experience, ideally accumulated in the E Commerce industry and Consulting firm
  • Experience in Top Tier Strategy consulting firm and in Fashion is a strong advantage
  • Highly prefer candidates who have studied/worked outside of Korea at some point
  • Have both an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong commercial awareness
  • Strong integrity to lead with example in being someone who embodies Vestiaire Collective core values.
  • Proven experience of being able to build productive relationships across functions/departments and manage effective communication across multiple work streams
  • Determined, resilient and able to stay positive under pressure 
  • Analytical: ability to build comprehensive analysis and startegy

Languages:

  • Fluent in English and Korean is mandatory.
  • Japanese is a plus.

Next steps:

Excited? We are too!

Please apply below and our recruitment team will review your application within the following 4 weeks. If your profile and experience fit our requirements, we will invite you for a first phone call.

About Vestiaire Collective:

It all comes down to one important question:

Why should so many great fashion items remain unworn in people’s wardrobes?

Vestiaire Collective is a global platform that connects millions of buyers and sellers of desirable pre-loved fashion. We are global: our headquarters are in Paris and we have satellite offices in New York City, London, Milan, Berlin and Hong Kong.

Company

Vestiaire Collective is the leading global app for desirable pre-loved fashion. 

It is dedicated to transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fast fashion industry. It provides its fashion activist community with inspiration, tools and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of over 2 million items that includes 120,000 new listings every week. 

Launched in Paris in 2009, Vestiaire Collective has offices in Paris, New York and Hong Kong and a tech hub in Berlin. Find out more by downloading the app, visiting vestiairecollective.com and following @vestiaireco on Instagram.

Company info
Website
Telephone
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Location
255 boulevard Pereire
Paris
IDF
75017
FR

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