Ebay Business Development Manager 

Germany, Brandenburg 

464713158

Do you want to contribute to defining growth for ebay Live Shopping for Collectibles? eBay Live is a new way to sell on eBay, where sellers and buyers interact live on video. eBay sellers build buyer trust, expand their customer base, and grow repeat business through consistent and engaging live streams on eBay Live. eBay buyers can view, chat, ask questions, give feedback, vote, and buy online during eBay Live selling. As a Business Development Manager, you will play a crucial role in driving the growth and success of eBay Live by recruiting the right sellers to the platform at the right stage of our product development.

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 ‘Trading’ 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 team’s execution and operational capability, this exciting opening will drive procedural change and business performance.

What will you bring:

• 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. Collectibles and/or 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.