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Senior Buyer Kids Textile: Highstreet & Casual (f/m/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
26 Aug 2021

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Function
Buyer
Level
Senior Manager
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Job Details

As a Senior Buyer for the Kids Textile Highstreet & Casual Unit you're leading a high performing and driven team. Creating new and innovative ways to connect with our kids' customers by driving the assortment assortment strategy and managing kids strategic projects, whilst delivering strong results.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Being responsible for the strategic and creative direction of your Unit, sourcing new brands, negotiating the best terms for Zalando whilst keeping our existing suppliers happy by managing relationships across both wholesale and platform business models.
  • Shaping the long term direction of your Unit, taking into account the Zalando strategy, your customer profile, trends and the competitive landscape.
  • Knowing KPIs and collaborating with the senior merchandising team to plan the budget and OTB to monitor and review the performance of the Unit.
  • Working cross functionally to drive sales and maximize profit and exchanging with other departments like Content, Logistics, Marketing and Production are key to your work, ensuring that we act in line with the whole organization.
  • To lead, develop and nurture a high performing team as the Unit lead, by fostering an engaging and positive team working environment. Exhibit strong leadership skills and be a role model for the Zalando Founding Mindset
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • Experience in working for a fast paced e-commerce retailing business. Relevant Buying expertise at a similar seniority level. Being passionate and a market expert for kids focused brands with a European view of the latest industry and product trends.
  • Excellent analytical skills that put you on top of the class and you love working with numbers to validate your gut instinct buying decisions and take risks.
  • Mastery in both written and spoken Negotiation skills.
  • Ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally.
  • A strong leader who will manage a team, and will be directly reporting into the Team Lead Buying for Kids, with passion for people development and training.
PERKS AT WORK
  • A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
  • 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
  • Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms

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 20 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 42 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 email.

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