Senior Buyer Designer Women- Premium Ready to Wear (m/f/d)
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 7 Dec 2021
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- Function
- Buyer
- Level
- Senior Manager
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Job Details
As the Senior Buyer for the Women's Designer Ready to wear category, you are leading a high performing team within our Premium segment, creating new and innovative ways to connect people and fashion whilst delivering strong results. You will be directly reporting into the Team Lead Buying.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
PERKS AT WORK
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 45 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.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- As the Senior Buyer you shape the short and long term strategy for Premium brands within our Designer Women's Ready to wear category, taking into account the Zalando strategy, your customer profile, trends and competitive landscape. You are fluent in commanding your KPIs and are a role model for collaboration with your senior merchandiser, steering the seasonal budgets and OTB to monitor performance of your unit and take action accordingly
- You will be responsible for the creative direction of your business unit; having direct ownership for top accounts in the portfolio, ensuring best practices for large scale assortments, directing the acquisition of new brands, setting negotiation benchmarks to ensure the best terms for Zalando
- You will manage key strategic brands and relationships across both wholesale and platform business models, taking into account all possible levers for growth and outlining robust long term plans
- You will work 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
- You will lead, develop and nurture a high performing team of three (Buyer and 2 Assistant Buyers) You display strong leadership skills and are 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 Experience at a similar senior level, ideally working within a multi brand environment (International Designer and Premium brands)
- A strong leader who is passionate about developing people, guiding their career and acting as a role model for the wider Designer Buying team
- Your excellent analytical skills put you on top of the class and you love working with numbers to validate your gut instinct buying decisions and take risks to achieve your unit plan
- Negotiation is in your blood, you have mastered both written and spoken negotiations beautifully and can provide clear examples of where you have achieved results in the past
- You display strong stakeholder and relationship management skills, both with internal and external stakeholders
- Clear knowledge and understanding of both the Premium and Luxury landscape within Europe, including platform and marketplace models
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 45 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
- 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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