Jobs at Ebay in Switzerland, Bern

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Oversee Go-To-Market (GTM) Activations across Global Markets Portfolio: Aligned to our global strategic priorities and the local market opportunities, develop and oversee the team's roll-out of various GTM activations. Provide strategic guidance to the team and key partners to ensure alignment across various launches.

• Develop Scalable, Portfolio-Wide Activations Strategy, Built on Playbook & Launch Best Practices: Establish a standardized approach for GTM activations, based on individual market and playbook takeaways, to serve as a basis for the teams to use as a means to accelerate time-to-market.

• Own Senior Stakeholder Communications, Management & Reporting: Own executive-level deliverables for senior leadership updates and other readouts, effectively communicating strategic insights and progress.

• Lead & Develop a Team:

About you

• Demonstrated success in effectively planning and implementing various complex projects within a large organization. A consulting / strategy background is helpful.

• Proven record of delivery and an ability to excel in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, being able to influence and collaborate across teams and at senior leadership levels.

• Exceptional communication skills in verbal and written (both long form and slides), quickly able to gain trust and confidence with people at all levels, including executive leadership.

• Proven experience in leading and developing a team

• Achieved consistent success in managing metrics that greatly influenced business performance and demonstrated strong analytical abilities.

• Extensive experience with Project, Program management & delivery, with a focus on multi-market initiatives.

• Proficient at expressing complex challenges, blockers, and problems and partnering with different team members to devise strategic solutions.

• Highly organized, detailed problem solver who thrives on being efficient and driving scalable processes.

• Extensive exposure to an ecommerce/marketplaces environment is highly advantageous.

• Strong excel (modeling, pivot tables, advanced functions) and Google Slides skills, with the ability to tell a compelling story at various levels; Comfortable and hands-on with data, analytics, and modeling to drive strategic decisions.

Strategic Leadership:

• Guide the strategic development of our portfolio and initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals from ideation to launch

• Partner with Regional GMs and wider leadership on strategy, operations and planning

Market Activation:

• Lead the in-market activation of eBay’s global strategy, partnering with Market General Managers, BU, and BizOps partners.

Business Development:

• Drive business development efforts that support the Global Markets Success strategy, including partnerships and inorganic opportunities

Team Management :

• Oversee the GMS BizOps, BizDev, and Activation Teams, ensuring effective collaboration and execution of strategic priorities

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team

Executive Engagement & Communications:

• Building relationships and driving collaboration across domains to improve efficiency and effectiveness, generating support using analysis and narrative

• Driving key executive presentations and strategy reviews to provide clear updates across the portfolio

What you will bring

• As a senior leader, you will be strong at stakeholder engagement and working in a matrixed environment. With standout communication skills, you will be confident at presenting at executive level and able to keep leaders regularly updated, flexing style and approach where needed. With an ability to lead change and build long term relationships, you can create positive business impact.

• Strong examples of cross functional collaboration is required and being able to influence teams that do not report directly to you through an inclusive leadership style and timely delivery of projects. An ability to work with multiple stakeholders at all levels, you can build a strong internal and external network of personal relationships to identify issues and opportunities and provide positive, best-in-class perspectives to others.

• With a proven track record in running complex projects, you are able to stay calm under pressure and deliver results. Throughout your career, there will be strong examples of creating, articulating and implementing high profile programs. You will have a validated ability to identify key program measurements and structure/lead a program to ensure achievement of established goals.

• With a commercial mentality, you are passionate about delivering business outcomes that benefit our buyers and sellers plus a passion for our business and DNA!

• Exposure to either the eBay business or marketplace business is highly advantageous and working in a dynamic global environment within a corporate strategy function in e-commerce or tech or consultancy role at leadership level is key.