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Business Development Manager Pre-owned (Secondhand)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
7 Mar 2022

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Function
Operations
Level
Manager

Job Details

As a Business Development Manager (Assortment Management), you will actively shape the assortment offered in the Pre-owned category on Zalando. You will be responsible for creating an exciting and (locally) relevant offer for our customers across all markets, identifying business opportunities and supporting initiatives to unlock long term growth and ensure high quality within our assortment.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Pre-owned team is part of the "Recommerce" business unit. We are Zalando's circularity and fashion recommerce team. We enable everyone to fulfil their desire to refresh their wardrobes in a more sustainable way - by providing fresh, quality-checked second hand assortment and an unmatched level of convenience. Concretely, we provide customers with the opportunity to trade-in their lightly worn items, and buy pre-owned fashion. We define "pre-owned" as second-hand-fashion items from popular ("highstreet") brands that are in like-new condition, which we present in a high-standard environment.


We are at an early stage of the business: We integrated into the Zalando Fashion Store in 2020, launching the Pre-owned proposition. The proposition is currently live in 13 Zalando markets. Pre-owned is a strategically relevant topic for Zalando group, contributing to our customer promises, our strategy of becoming the starting point for fashion and the circularity goals in our sustainability strategy (do.More).


WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

'Solve something that matters' / 'fly high, dive deep'


  • Create strategies and drive their implementation to fulfil assortment needs within our brand portfolio and category mix, identifying and filling assortment white spots, support operational initiatives to deliver high quality assortment
  • Create assortment (incl. seasonality and re-supply) strategy for the Pre-owned category to inform and support business steering to guarantee high customer satisfaction and purchasing conversion throughout the year
  • Take ownership of our brand activation and steering process, taking commercial decisions which brands are an impactful addition to our offer, enabling activations and adjustments across all relevant systems in collaboration with stakeholders inside and outside of the Recommerce team
  • Closely collaborate with Fashion Store Category Management, Curation and Content Creation to leverage their insights to improve relevance of the Pre-owned category, contributing with your industry insights
  • Support research into business opportunities in the context of assortment expansion, develop strong market and customer understanding


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • 'Put yourself in our customer's shoes': You remain motivated and structured when facilitating the execution of business-critical projects in a very dynamic and fast-paced environment, embracing change and always hunting for solutions
  • ''Act like an owner': Uncertainty in your business does not scare you - you feel comfortable using your excellent strategic and analytical skills to decide based on data and taking well-measured risks to grow your area
  • 'Live high challenge and high support': As a great team player you bring a positive mindset to the team and enjoy working with a broad variety of stakeholders, building and maintaining good relationships

Prior experience:At least 3 years of relevant experience in the fields of management consulting, business development, buying or commercial planning with a proven track record.

WHAT WE OFFER
  • A clear purpose for your work: Be part of an entrepreneurial team that makes Pre-owned shopping as convenient as buying new items on Zalando, making fashion more sustainable
  • A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
  • Personal and professional development opportunities in a highly dynamic, growing market segment


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.

Within Zalando Digital Experience (DX), you will work with many autonomous teams that live up to the standards of software craftsmanship, ownership and excellence. Along with our guiding set of principles we entrust you and your team to shape the future of Zalando.

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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