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Senior Product Manager - Warehouse Systems

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
3 Nov 2021

Job Details

JOB DESCRIPTION

Zalando Logistics operates a vast network of fulfilment centres in Europe serving both wholesale and partner business models and providing comparatively better convenience to all Zalando customers.

As the Warehouse Management Systems Product team, we own an important part of the customer journey and continuously strive for higher customer satisfaction while scaling our fulfilment network sustainably.

As one example, a big part of the way we contribute to Zalando’s success is by enabling a larger assortment of stock to be offered to the end customer not only via tracking it consistently but also via continuous extensions of software, processes and physical set-up to allow for better handling and growth in an array of product categories.

As part of a team of passionate Product Managers, you will be empowered to discover and deliver products and features both bringing efficiency and benefitting Zalando’s customers and partners

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • From the get-go, start collaborating with relevant business teams such as Business Development, Category Management, Central Stock and Order allocation teams to help shape the joint roadmaps for their planned expansions and improvements, providing them with insights on Logistics capabilities and KPIs and cascading the right priorities and solutions (Define, Design and Deliver) to the relevant Logistics Tech teams.
  • Construct meaningful mid-term vision for your product domain, backing your prioritization decisions with a KPI structure for your area. (Discover, Define and Design) ..
  • Build models for large-scale solution evaluation (going back to the customer) often between more than a few technical and business teams and 2 or more departments. (Define and Design).
  • Work seamlessly together with your main Engineering team and other contributors to deliver on the company goals and local priorities.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Zalando’s platform strategy and growth ambitions pose exciting challenges to Logistics overall and core Warehouse management systems in particular, providing sizable opportunities for product discovery and both top line and bottom line- affecting improvements.

You will have the chance to set up processes and systems that are done for the first time in this shape and form in the industry as a whole and contribute strongly to the goals of Zalando Group.

  • You’re a collaborative leader, excited to work on complex cross-department challenges, using iterative design to arrive at the best solutions for the business and the end customer. Leading by influence comes naturally to you and you’re ready to collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams and roles.
  • You’re a self-starter, easily adapting to new situations and onboarding oneself independently on systems/team structures with complex dependencies.
  • You’re a data driven innovator and can design creative, meaningful hypotheses to play off of when determining your next steps.
  • You’re masterfully handling both the problem and the solution space and use a plethora of methods to derive product insights.
  • As a plus - you have experience with data- and process-heavy products especially systems driving for data accuracy and new process onboarding

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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