Senior Project Manager (all genders) Retail
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 19 Oct 2022
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- Function
- Operations
- Level
- Senior Manager
Job Details
As a Senior Project Manager (all genders) in the Zalando Stores, you will drive strategic project initiatives that have direct impact on our business and help us meet our ambitious targets. In cooperation with internal and external stakeholders, you will move a project from ideation through solution design, delivery, and handover, removing obstacles on the way all while managing timeline and risks, and ensuring quality.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be the starting point for fashion - 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...
- Take ownership and drive cross-functional projects end-to-end including the conceptualisation of new projects, developing full project plans and managing stakeholders throughout
- Overcome obstacles, identify and remove bottlenecks and push your projects to success with a collaborative and solution oriented mindset
- Thrive on the ability to solve business challenges and ensure as Senior Project Manager transparency around project status and effectively aligning all stakeholders with a strong focus on facilitating collaboration, contingency planning and decision-making
- Support prioritization and resourcing based on the objectives and needs of the business unit and in alignment with the Senior Management team
- Help implement new and improve existing project management practices within our business unit, empowering fellow colleagues to utilize these practices
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF...
- Previous relevant experience working in both traditional project management and agile environments, managing cross-functional projects (ideally technical in nature) with multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Strong Change Management and influencing skills giving you the ability to communicate and negotiate across all levels of the organization
- An interest in Retail and an affinity for IT topics/processes
- A highly motivated team player, you can manage conflicts and priorities among teams and stakeholders. You take ownership of your tasks, and work in an independent and structured manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
ZALANDO BENEFITS
Career Development
- Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
- 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 year
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 fashion & beauty products shipped and sold by Zalando, and 30% discount on Zalando Lounge
Family
- Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
- 3 fully-paid child sick days per year
ABOUT ZALANDO OUTLETS
Zalando Outlets are the Zalando retail stores in Germany. We offer many different articles of the Zalando assortment and welcome customers to visit us offline in our unique stores. Our team stands for the perfect shopping experience - because shopping offline should be as fun as shopping online!
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
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.
- 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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