Ebay Director Verticals- 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

133349735

This is your chance to join the team crafting the future of e-commerce. You’ll be joining a truly global company, allowing you to network internationally and use key takeaways from all over the world. You’ll also become a valuable member of our Canada office where we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial mindset

• Partner with the Canada Management Team to identify long-term strategic opportunities and creative solutions to tough business challenges across different categories
• Activate uniquely Canadian category opportunities by identifying uniquely local opportunities and crafting both a strategy and an exportable playbook around them.
• Guide team members leading multiple verticals in analyzing market and consumer trends.
• Finding similarities and differences across categories and countries to develop three-year regional strategies, to socialize these globally, and to implement and pivot to drive meaningful contributions to the business in Canada and globally.
• Setting short-and-long-term goals, budgets and put processes and programs in place to optimally achieve these goals.
• Defining strategy-aligned goals and guiding teams toward achieving them.
• Synthesizing internal and external data, customer insights and competitor intelligence to generate insights that advise and support focus category strategies.
• Partner with International Markets Finance team and key POC on all finance related matters.
• Lead internal processes to generate and prioritize category- and business-wide innovations, drive alignment and consensus from leaders, and embed critical thinking across the organisation.
• Build models to size growth opportunities and support investment cases.
• Develop team members’ abilities to communicate strategic recommendations to senior executives and build opportunities for them to do so.
• Help the team in successfully building out focus verticals while supporting a broad category representation
• Work closely with the US Verticals teams to adopt the best ideas and concepts.
• Support consistent business development practices across teams as they engage with top brands and sellers, developing pipelines, recruiting new sellers, onboarding, problem solving issues, developing positive relationships, and helping them grow successful businesses on eBay.
• Gather feedback from customers and work collaboratively with product, operations, and shipping teams to prioritize, design, test and launch new features.
• Support, mentor, and lead 7-10 team members.

To be successful in this role, a candidate will have a proven history of these skills/expertise:

• Strategy: Ability to develop and implement long-term strategic plans for category growth and expansion, including market analysis, competitive positioning, marketplace pricing strategies, and promotional activities.
• Category management: Lead and optimized product categories within an e-commerce environment. This includes assortment planning, inventory management, pricing, and product lifecycle management.
• Team leadership: Experience in leading and developing a team of e-commerce professionals working across different domains, in this case across categories with different supply chains and buyer segments. Strong leadership skills
• E-commerce: Understanding of the e-commerce landscape, including knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and new technologies
• Data analysis: Proficiency in using analytics tools and research to develop goals and to supervise and measure key performance indicators against them.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively across functions and regions and to mentor a team in doing the same. Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Vendor management: Maintain relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and partners.
• Product/user experience: Understanding of user experience principles and ability to identify experience gaps and partner with Product/Engineering partners to develop a roadmap to improve them.
• Marketing: Knowledge of digital marketing strategies and an ability to guide teams in working cross-functionally on category plans across earned, owned, and paid channels.
• Continuous learning: Proven dedication to staying up to date on market and industry trends across categories under management.

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