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Senior Product Manager - Warehouse Management Systems (w/m/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
10 Mar 2021

Job Details

As the Senior Product Manager in the logistics team, you will be at the forefront of ushering the next chapters of fulfillment across all our European warehouses, ensuring that customers get what they want and when we promised them they would get it. You will own the long-term product vision for key aspects in warehousing, influence partner teams towards your vision, determine and build business metrics to help prioritize and drive execution towards the vision. You will be part of a rock-star team of product managers - all passionate about orchestrating logistics, enhancing the life of our colleagues in the warehouse by leveraging technology, process knowledge and software. You will work closely with our software engineers along the 4D-product cycle.

Based on your strategy, you will also play a key role in collaborating with other important areas of automation and robotics to build Zalando's warehouses of the future and to optimize our logistics in the short and long term. See some of our team's press coverage for innovation in fulfillment (Magazino, Bag Sorters, Automated DC, Grey Orange).
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • You will lead key warehouse product functions and drive product development with the engineering teams by applying efficient product development practices with predictable outcome
  • You will build and own the product strategy and product portfolio of warehouse applications, ensuring that we surpass business goals and customer fulfillment expectations; at the same time, you will collaborate with other product managers in different areas of logistics
  • You are a motivated leader - You uncover iterative improvement opportunities hidden in large data sets and bolster data-driven product development and to validate the effectiveness of the different courses of action
  • You are a company-wide thought leader for fulfillment excellence based on your strong understanding of business goals and customer needs
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • You can build, scale and continuously improve their product areas
  • You develop and communicate a product vision that excites your team and the engineering teams, who together translate your vision into solutions. You know how to break down a long term vision into clearly shaped and value generating milestones, so that your teams can autonomously make the right decisions during execution
  • You are an experienced, data-driven and collaborative Product Management professional with a strong growth mindset, strong business acumen, analytical understanding & problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development. You have a drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
  • You are customer obsessed, KPI and data driven - You always strive for a thorough understanding of your customer's problem before analyzing what it takes to build a solution and make it profitable. Using data and research to correctly understand opportunities within our warehouses is an essential part of your approach to product management. You know how to find the appropriate KPI that allows you to define success and track incremental progress
PERKS AT WORK
  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)
  • Family- and life-friendly working conditions including flexible working hours (*available for selected departments/positions)

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 35+ million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany

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