Job Description

Home Improvement Category Manager

At eBay we’re passionate about connecting people with the things they love. As the world’s biggest online marketplace, we pride ourselves on technology-led innovation and want to help shape the future of commerce in the UK and the world.

We put our customers, buyers and sellers, at the centre of everything we do. We honour where we came from–we’re still about pre-loved items, but today, 84% of products on ebay.co.uk are new!

As a global brand our purpose is to create opportunities:

• For individual sellers, small businesses and large merchants worldwide
• For shoppers seeking value, selection and convenience
• For our people, who seek to make the world better

The Opportunity

This exciting opening will define the category strategy and execute this through working with strategically important sellers, brands and retailers in the Home & Garden trading team to ensure that eBay has the inventory to continue to grow this area plus being accountable for the operational and commercial success of the brand / retailer portfolio and the wider category.

Key responsibilities include:

• Build category and market expertise to identify and exploit opportunities for eBay
• Develop expert understanding of sellers’ business operations and current strategies and utilise insight to find opportunities for growth
• Lead and develop the relationship with key sellers, brands and retailers within the portfolio and in line with the category strategy
• Identify inventory, retailers and brands needed on ebay and acquire these targets onto eBay
• Build and execute promotional plans

What we are looking for:

We would love to hear from you if you have a strong ecommerce or retail background as a buyer, trader, category manager or business development manager with strong trading acumen, comfortable operating in a fast-paced trading environment and skilled at running peak trading periods.

Experience within Home Improvements is a requirement with a great track record of building effective trading relationships with clients/suppliers/brands to source critical inventory and establish joint commercial targets.

Standout negotiation skills and the ability to build internal and external relationships is key, crafting partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, operating with agility and easily adapting to change.

A proven strategic thinker and self-starter, you can make sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems and drive commercial results through business development and acquisition. A strong ability to analyse data and draw actionable insights from these is key plus being comfortable to engage at the most senior levels within brands and retailers.

This role offers fantastic career development for an individual with excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.

We love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you can bring your unique self to work. To learn about our Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/our-company/diversity-inclusion/.

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