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Team Lead Strategic Partnership Beauty (all genders)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
29 Sep 2022

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Team Lead Strategic Partner Management - Beauty THE ROLE & THE TEAM
At Zalando, we want to create an experience that helps us connect more deeply with our customers shopping for Fashion and Beauty products. Beauty is a strategically important proposition for Zalando Fashion Store.

Zalando Beauty Proposition was established in 2018 by a team of colleagues across Business Development, Buying, and Merchandise Planning. Since then the team has grown significantly, making impressive inroads into the Beauty market, and delivering exponential growth. Our assortment has grown to more than 550 brands across make-up, skincare, fragrances, haircare, and beauty accessories and now includes iconic names like MAC, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Charlotte Tilbury and Urban Decay among others.

Looking forward, we set our sights on scaling the business and building the foundations for online Beauty leadership in the future including building unique partnerships with the most iconic Beauty partners like Sephora.

As a Team Lead Strategic Partner Management - Beauty, you will play a key role in building the Beauty Partner side of the Beauty proposition, including Sephora Partnership. You will be a key contributor to defining the Partner Strategy for Beauty. You will be accountable for setting and achieving commercial targets/objectives for a defined set of Beauty partners across all Beauty markets with the support of an assigned team and broader Zalando organisation (zDirect, ZMS, CR, etc.). Together with your team you will lead and support strategic partners with highest complexity and impact, setting the standard on how to execute roadmaps, goals and objectives.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be the starting point for Fashion and Beauty - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and disability statuses. We only want to know why you're great for this role, so please avoid including your picture, age, and marital status in your CV as well.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion

Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion/our-employee-resource-groups
WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED
  • Be a key contributor to defining overall Beauty Partner Strategy, a recently established business segment of the Beauty proposition.
  • Expand Beauty Partner business across all relevant Beauty markets and establish Partner Program as a major growth driver for the Beauty Proposition.
  • Drive long term commercial success of the existing strategic Beauty partnerships for Zalando, including the iconic Beauty partnership between Zalando and Sephora.
  • Support the Beauty proposition in evaluating and executing new partnerships.
  • Work very closely with both internal and external stakeholders to drive and contribute to our overall Beauty proposition growth.
  • Lead, support and grow Beauty Partner team.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Strategy and account planning: Develop, maintain, and execute strategic account plans with clearly set objectives, building blocks, roadmaps and timelines.
  • Platform Management: Link the Zalando Platform vision and project landscape with the partner's needs, and financial and strategic plans. Drive cross-department partner focused initiatives and ensure their timely implementation.
  • Financial Planning: Set and align the commercial growth targets for the partnership with the selected brands. Integrate Zalando business models and services feeding into the plans and track target achievements.
  • Negotiations: Set and negotiate terms and conditions. Ensuring a positive and commercially viable partnership for each party.
  • Stakeholder Management: Ensure transparency across stakeholders to facilitate project progress. Maintain a strong network within the partners' organisation and enable structured relationship management.
  • Leadership: Leading people is your passion. Alongside your key functional responsibilities, you will be fully responsible for leading, coaching and developing your team by identifying their strengths, development areas and training needs.
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
  • You gained 8+ years of relevant work experience in consumer-oriented commercial, partner-facing, or/and highly analytical roles. E-commerce industry required, Beauty e-commerce is a plus.
  • You are a strategic and commercially focused professional with impressive analytical skills, critical mindset, and a solid understanding of the P&L lines in an ecommerce - retailing environment.
  • You have a proven track-record of setting commercial and broader financial goals, translating these goals into a clear plan to achieve them with clear building blocks, and finally reaching the set objectives in the defined timeframes.
  • You have a proven experience and in-depth understanding of the European Beauty market and new trends that are happening in Beauty globally.
  • You have outstanding communication skills and stakeholder management abilities across both internal and external stakeholders to ensure transparency across stakeholders and having one tone of voice towards partners.
  • You have a strong understanding of the negotiation process, and how most relevant Beauty brands think and how to build win-win situations between Zalando Beauty and partners.
  • Supportive and inspiring leader, while being a proactive and action-oriented team player, highly organised, self-directed and motivated, with a passion to help junior team members develop and acting as a role model for the team.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills (in English); track record of influencing senior leaders and teams to make impactful decisions.
ZALANDO BENEFITS
Career Development
  • We offer peer-to-peer performance reviews twice a year
  • Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
  • Join regular all-hands, team meetings, Q&A-sessions, and quarterly anonymous employee surveys to ask your questions and provide your feedback
  • Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities

Wellbeing
  • 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
  • Minimum of 27 holiday days per calendar year
  • Online sports courses, wellbeing, and nutrition advice offered by Humanoo personal wellbeing coach app
  • Mental wellbeing support by our Employee Assistance Program and professional consultants to help you find health resources

Flexibility
  • Flexible working hours
  • Relocation assistance available - subject to prior agreement
  • Hybrid working model with 60% remote per week
  • Opportunity to work from abroad for 30 (working) days per year

Financial
  • Access to the employee shares program
  • 40% shopping discount on products shipped and sold by Zalando, and 30% discount on Zalando Lounge
  • Discounts from a wide range of external partners

Family
  • Employee parents' forums and employee resource group
  • Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
  • 3 fully-paid child sick days per year
  • Free counselling, assistance, and referral service for all matters concerning yourself and your family via the Fürstenberg Institute
ABOUT ZALANDO
It's the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey, from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce, to the starting point for Fashion and Beauty in Europe. We connect customers, brands, and partners across 23 markets.

Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 46 million active customers through a team of diverse skill-sets, cultural backgrounds, and interests.

Our values: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-founding-mindset

do.More - our sustainability strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/sustainability

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/insidezalando

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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