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Senior Sales Manager Germany - Connected Retail (m/w/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
23 Nov 2021

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As Senior Sales Manager - Germany (m/w/d), you will own and drive the growth of the Connected Retail network. You will penetrate fast and win big across the country, as you close deals with brands and retailers signing up their stores so that they can sell and ship products to customers via our platform. You are part of one of the most innovative Zalando teams, reinventing retail: Online-to-Offline.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Win fast and big. you will drive the strategy and the 360° sales cycle for winning deals with multilabel / lighthouse retailers or brands in DE with focus on South DE. Focus on the key players in different sectors (i.e.: Fashion apparel, Sportswear, Kidswear or Footwear.) You will develop an effective acquisition and lead conversion strategy that maximizes rapid growth while building a consistently strong sales pipeline, targeting the right customer segments.
  • Build trust. Seize opportunities to understand the needs of the retailers and find the right tone and empathy to successfully bring online and offline together. Develop new sales partnerships to accelerate growth. You have a deep understanding of the realities of the fashion sector and can leverage this to create compelling propositions. You bring a strong network of contacts from the fashion and functional sportswear sectors preferably at C- level and you can constantly leverage and develop your brand and retail contacts to maximise opportunities.
  • Close the deal. Support the conversion of these opportunities through the creation and delivery of presentations, conducting compelling sales pitches, webinars and negotiations. You have the end-to-end responsibility from first contact to contract conclusion
  • Be our best evangelist. Promote Connected Retail within local retail industry events, trade associations and networks and be adept at turning these opportunities into acquisition growth opportunities
  • Own your success. You are in close contact with Connected Retail sales leadership who will challenge and support you to grow the network rapidly. You have a great deal of freedom in choosing strategies to achieve your goals and, if necessary, adjust your course as needed
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
This role is a key pillar leading our most mature market, with a clear mission to protect our success, while accelerating our path to even bigger successes:
  • 5 + years experience in the Sportswear or retail industry (e.g. fashion, lifestyle, beauty)
  • Expertise in platform (SaaS) and marketplace business, combining the delivery of strategic business planning, go-to-market planning with a proven track record of sales growth success
  • Sales affinity, goal orientation and leadership characterise you: Customer acquisition and the conversion of new prospects into a lead excites you. Our team is important to us, so not only are you a strong self-starter, you should also be the best team player
  • An agile mind, strong communication and negotiation skills are self-evident for you. Solid experience of developing strategic relationships and managing internal and external stakeholders, whilst working within cross functional teams, maintaining engagement and ensuring commercial momentum
  • A central source of knowledge about your market, you can share and educate others. You ensure that sales activities are insight-driven and decisions are fact based. You synthesise data quickly and apply this to improve lead conversion in each country through a combination of wisdom, foresight and experience
  • As a start-up, our Senior Sales Manager should be inspiring, persuasive and influential. You should be able to excite our partners, your stakeholders and your team with your passion, knowledge and impact. While being optimistic, confident and empathetic as you confront tough challenges and drive successful outcomes
  • Excellent spoken and written German and English language skills
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 CONNECTED RETAIL
As part of the Zalando universe, Connected Retail is enabling brick-and-mortar stores to sell directly to millions of online consumers on the Zalando platform. Together with our partners and state -of- the- art technologies we are building a seamless experience for our 42 million active customers to shop from local stores. This results in greater shopping experience, product selection and availability in products, faster delivery times and more sustainable shipping.

THE FUTURE OF RETAIL IS CONNECTED

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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