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Team Lead Merchandise Planning - Women Private Labels (w/m/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
10 Dec 2021

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Function
Buyer
Level
Manager

Job Details

As a Merchandise Planning Team Lead for our Women Private Labels cluster, you work with your Buying counterpart to define the strategy of your assortment. You are accountable for defining the financial KPI plan reflective of your strategy, leading your team and our partners in order to deliver their targets.

The role is based in Berlin.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Be accountable for the Private Labels cluster, by leading your team autonomously to define and deliver the financial KPI plans, adapting accordingly to the changing business climate and company expectations.
  • Work alongside your buying counterpart(s) to develop the long-term strategy for your business area. Use a collaborative approach with your constantly evolving stakeholder network to ensure cross-functional projects and strategies are delivered.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team. Coach and empower your senior team members to enable them to be strong leaders, and cultivate a team culture that promotes open feedback and learning from each other.
  • Play a role in shaping the Merchandise Planning Job Family and community, setting standards, and defining future ways of working. Make a positive impact on the wider community through knowledge and best practice sharing, mentorship, and contribution to projects in your business unit.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • Bachelor's degree in Business or a comparable field. You are a business leader with extensive experience working in Merchandise Planning or a commercially facing analytical role. You have demonstrated total accountability in leading numerous end-to-end planning cycles, across diverse product areas, ideally at an eCommerce retailer. You have worked with various merchandising software packages and you are comfortable with analysis and excel at an advanced level.
  • Proven experience developing and implementing new initiatives, processes and/or tools, always looking to drive further improvements for the team and the business unit.
  • A strong leader. You have significant experience leading a large team, providing direction, and ensuring team health and motivation in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You are excited to add to best practice and contribute towards the future of merchandise planning at Zalando. You are able to manage numerous, diverse stakeholders and use your communication skills to convey complex topics, and influence senior internal or external audiences.
  • Motivated and comfortable to work in an ever-changing environment, you are solution-oriented and you enjoy working in a dynamic, pacey business. You are a true entrepreneur and love to take decisions. You enjoy sitting in the driver's seat and feel comfortable taking over ownership and accountability.
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 23 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
Website
Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany

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