Ebay Live Category Manager Fashion 

United Kingdom, England, London 

317201462

We seek a seasoned Category Manager for Live Commerce to drive Fashion expansion on eBay Live. The responsibilities include devising the category strategy, identifying crucial sellers, and collaborating closely with them to flourish on this platform, and meeting GMV targets is part of the accountability. You will be responsible for advocating for your sellers, running tests for new initiatives in your categories, building playbooks for success, understanding our platform and how it needs to change, and helping us build a program that scales.

Deliver an ambitious eBay Live GMV target for Fashion categories

• Collaborating with the Category Lead on developing the category playbook and strategy to achieve GMV targets

• Building out our seller & event supply and coordinating cross functional teams to deliver success for those sellers & events

• Lead on category programming with the Programming team to support on the efficient category content strategy

Select and onboard new sellers to eBay Live

• Support on BD activities - meet sellers, develop pitches, devise inventive approaches to engage and contract with sellers

• Develop criteria for selecting eBay Live sellers based on patterns, analytics, and merchant intuition.

• Assist sellers in the onboarding journey, pinpointing challenges and devising solutions to overcome them

Help Sellers find success on eBay live

• Convince sellers to invest time and resources in eBay live, and help them make that investment worthwhile

• Understand drivers of success on the eBay live platform and mentor your portfolio of sellers accordingly - across assortment, live host, production, selling formats, marketing, etc.

• Support sellers by collaborating with complementary teams, brainstorming solutions, initiating new programs to boost seller success, advocating on their behalf, and taking action when needed

Help us scale eBay live

• Support the Category Lead to land on our ambitious goals

• Develop scalable processes, tools, and models that help us grow the business

• BA/BS degree or equivalent, with 5+ years of relevant ecommerce experience collaborating closely with vendors and merchants, preferably within the Fashion industry

• Experience and curiosity about Live selling formats

• Consistent track record leading multiple priorities simultaneously with minimum mentorship

• Strong project management, organisation, and partner engagement abilities, including multitasking to lead and complete projects

• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with sellers and internal team members

• Ability and willingness to travel to meet in person with accounts (up to 15% of month)