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Senior Product Manager - Assortment optimization (w/m/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
20 Aug 2021

Job Details

At Zalando, our goal is to become the "Starting Point of Fashion" - we want our customers to always start their fashion journey from the Zalando shop, knowing that anything fashion-related could be easily found.

As In-Season Management and Data Products team, we support this vision by ensuring relevant assortment is always available to our customers. We provide products to support our supply team to execute optimal decisions across the lifecycle of the assortment, leading to high availability, ensuring healthy stock levels, and consequently enabling Zalando to serve all customer needs.

To that end, our team is set out to build the next-generation inventory management and buying recommendations system for Zalando's wholesale and partner programs that will serve our 200 colleagues in merchandising and our 1500+ suppliers to make the best possible decisions.

As a Senior Product Manager in the In-Season Management and Data Products team, you will find yourself at the forefront of technology, defining the strategy and roadmap for our products, tech and Data Science teams to drive innovation and achieve our vision.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Understanding the business needs of our suppliers and internal users, completing end-to-end analysis to make business recommendations, formulating innovative solutions and finally taking our clients and stakeholders along on a change journey.
  • Contributing to the mid- & long-term product vision while collaborating with engineering and/or data science leadership to ensure that as a team you deliver high quality and high impact products
  • Striving to make the lives of your users and end customers better. Along with UX and engineering and Data Science executing innovative solutions which don't just deliver business impact but also great user experience
  • Getting things done, challenging the status quo and instinctively knowing what the critical success factors are and changing complexity into clarity
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • End to end experience using product management tools and methods to launch features and products with meaningful business impact.
  • Ability to transform complex problems into a long-term vision and inspire the team towards this vision while getting them excited about the future
  • Significant experience in leading the definition and development of decision support and/or recommender tools
  • You can bridge the gap between business and technology and use quantitative and qualitative insights to make sound recommendations.
  • You know how to measure the success of your product and continuously iterate to make your product better.
  • Effective communication skills in English, with the ability to express business requirements across cross-functional teams throughout various business units
  • You engage, inspire and lead cross functional teams.
  • Experience in supply chain management, revenue management or forecasting are a plus


WHAT WE OFFER
  • 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)

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, 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 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.

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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