Principal Product Manager - Purchase
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 28 Jun 2022
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- Function
- Design - Garments & Accessories
- Level
- Manager
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Job Details
The Purchase team is one of the fastest growing teams in the Zalando Digital Experience organization, helping our 45+ million customers buy products they love by creating a seamless purchase experience on the Zalando website and apps. You will work with teams across the company to remove friction from the buying process, making sure customers can buy what they want, pay on their terms, and get delivery when and where is most convenient.
As a Principal Product Manager for the Purchase team, you'll play a critical leadership role in a small but growing team of Product Managers rethinking how customers buy at Zalando. You will help manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives in the Purchase funnel. You'll be responsible for defining and developing market and customer relevant experiences in Cart and Checkout with a mid-to-long term view. This role requires deep collaboration with a network of key stakeholders in Fulfillment, Payments, Sustainability, Beauty, and our Plus loyalty program, as well as our commercial teams. This is a high impact role on a high impact team-you'll be supporting both the product and organizational growth for one of the largest one of the most successful tech companies in Europe.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
As a Principal Product Manager for the Purchase team, you'll play a critical leadership role in a small but growing team of Product Managers rethinking how customers buy at Zalando. You will help manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives in the Purchase funnel. You'll be responsible for defining and developing market and customer relevant experiences in Cart and Checkout with a mid-to-long term view. This role requires deep collaboration with a network of key stakeholders in Fulfillment, Payments, Sustainability, Beauty, and our Plus loyalty program, as well as our commercial teams. This is a high impact role on a high impact team-you'll be supporting both the product and organizational growth for one of the largest one of the most successful tech companies in Europe.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Act as owner of your defined area: set a clear vision, create a smart roadmap with ambitious targets, and then report against and drive towards those.
- Identify new product opportunities with a customer-centric mindset, select the right solutions to focus on by making business savvy decisions and then move fast to successfully execute on your ideas.
- Collaborate with other product and business leaders across Zalando to define and build some of the most ambitious and complex initiatives in eCommerce.
- Applying repeatable best practice product methodologies in cross-functional teams, working backwards from the customer, problem discovery, defining & designing solutions, and delivering agreed outcomes.
- Help establish a strong product-centric culture, extending your expert knowledge of product management mechanisms and best practices both within our team and with our partners.
- Be a product leader within the organization and mentor to other colleagues by showcasing deep expertise in your domain and acting as a role model for successful product management.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- You've managed highly visible and highly complex customer-facing products from definition through delivery, making the most of cross-functional teams to deliver against your vision.
- You're a natural problem-solver, with a strong history of leading product discovery, solving meaningful customer and business problems, and delivering scalable solutions.
- You have a growth mindset and the ability to adapt quickly to changing business conditions to drive your teams toward the right opportunities at the right time.
- Your message is crisp, clear and to the point, both in verbal and written communication. You can convey a narrative that creates clarity out of ambiguity, articulates well-conceived goals, and builds consensus amongst your peers and partners.
- You're an analytical thinker who can evaluate large sets of data, identify opportunities, and draw insights to make well-founded product decisions.
- You're an effective networker, and can own and drive topics without much central steering. You build your personal network and identify interdependencies or sources of mutual value to create optimal solutions.
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
- https://jobs.zalando.com/
- Telephone
- +49 (0)30 2759 4693
- Location
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Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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