Leading international e-commerce company

Our client is the worldwide leader in shopping and payments on the internet. For more than 15 years it has been connecting hundreds of millions of people, enabling them to buy, sell and pay online and it keeps on growing. We are looking for a

Senior Division Leader for Baby Products (m/f)

who commits to a strong customer focus and will have responsibility for supporting the category for baby products in areas such as vendor management, inventory planning & supply chain management, online content management, merchant management and product management, as
applicable. You will manage a high performing team whose primary goal is to promote category awareness, creating the earth's greatest shopping experience – a store featuring more products, brands, better & more compelling content than any store.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the category team and across the company to ensure that the various functions supporting the baby business listed above have accountability for all important metrics such as increased selection, unit growth, inventory turns, and in-stock rates
• Drive periodic innovation aimed at improving customer experience and strengthening vendor relationships
• Provide local input to defining the customer experience and represent that to senior executives, vendors and third party merchant teams, as well as the category team
• Work cross functionally with central companywide teams in Technology, Operations and Merchant Services to establish the right processes and optimize them to utilize resources most efficiently
• Translate category metrics into actionable plans as determined by different inputs which drive category performance
• Create sustainable process improvements which drive year-over-year progress in the category
• Identify new approaches for improving selection and category awareness to better manage the performance of the category over the long run
• Focus on talent management of the team which includes effectively recruiting and developing the best, and creating an environment which motivates people to thrive in their expertise and deliver aggressive results

Key Experience

• University degree preferable in a technical or analytical discipline
• Professional experience in either ecommerce, retail or consulting within a demanding corporate environment and proven ability to drive change
• Proven analytical skills and ability to influence people
• Widespread commercial awareness developed in a fast moving environment
• Clear evidence of managing and motivating a team, both direct and indirect reports
• Desirable is a business background in Internet commerce, baby products or high end consumables industry
• Experience in managing vendor relations as well as in senior level negotiation, if possible

Key Skills

• Particular ability to inspire passion in others
• Fluency in English and German is essential (spoken and written)
• Highly evolved communication skills (e.g. write compelling, concise documents)
• Decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas

We assure to treat your application confidentially and to respect restriction notices.

Are you interested in the position? We are looking forward to receiving your complete
application (cover letter, resume) stating your salary expectations and your earliest possible starting date with the code SDLBP040515 by e-mail: bewerbung@personal-excellence.de

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