Job Description

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader xe2x80x94 were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work xe2x80x94 every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers xe2x80x94 and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.About the team and the role:Do you want to contribute to defining growth for the Fashion industry? Can you change approaches to positively impact economics, the environment and communities?We have a newly created position for someone to play a pivotal role in driving eBays position in Fashion. With a passion for sustainability, a background working in a Fashion business development role, this is the perfect opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference in how customers shop!This opening will help shape the Fashion category strategy, and execute this through acquiring strategically important sellers, brands and retailers to ensure that eBay has the inventory to continue to grow in this area.The Business Development Manager is responsible for building, leading and delivering the end to end acquisition pipeline to optimize the selection of brands and inventory on the eBay platform for customers.We want to hear from you if you have a great marketplace background in acquiring brands and sellers that customers love through a high energy, innovative approach that brings fresh ideas to the table.Key interfaces include :

• Category/Trade/Focus Verticals
• Business Development
• Operations
• Merchant Integration Solutions
• Advertising
• Horizontal Trading
• Marketing
• Risk & Trust

What you will accomplish:

• Identify targets and a network of contacts for both the short and long term acquisition of businesses new to eBay. Through running a significant sales pipeline, providing a constant stream of new inventory to site from such brands & sellers for the xe2x80x98Trading function to using our regular promotional cycles, it will deliver on a range of critical metrics and success measures.
• Work with newly onboarded brands and sellers to deliver on their readiness to trade ensuring they are optimizing the full trading capability of the platform, the role will also build and expand partnerships with marketplace agencies / service providers who have limited presence on eBay today to further drive seller and inventory acquisition to grow the eBay business.
• Constantly innovate, develop your operating model to keep pace with the constantly evolving ecommerce and commerce market plus building the teams execution and operational capability, this exciting opening will drive procedural change and business performance.

What will you bring:

• People leadership: provides direction, coaching & guidance to junior team members within their focus area; whilst supporting their professional development more broadly.
• eCommerce & Marketplaces knowledge: a validated background and understanding of the marketplaces/platform market, its competitors and supporting businesses (i.e. listing management; integrators; logistics; customer services) with a clear point of view on what is required for our partners to succeed in this space. Fashion experience is required.
• New business & commercial expertise: experience in developing new business for a large organization, having led e-commerce commercial teams and consistently delivered strategies effectively even under challenging circumstances.
• Relationship management: builds and sustains relationships across all functions and levels internally in the organization, to ensure flawless integration and detailed execution of plans. The ability to apply influencing and negotiation skills with external businesses to build and maintain mutually beneficial commercial relations with a deep understanding of brand, seller & partner needs, challenges and opportunities for growth.
• Strategic & Analytical orientation: a keen strategic and analytical problem solver with the knack of sifting through detail, and putting complex ideas into clear frameworks. Insists on proof in data, peeling back layers to understand root causes, and uses data to drive innovation and decisions.

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