About this Senior Category Manager Live role at eBay
At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
We are looking for an experienced Category Manager who can join this exciting growing programme and play a pivotal role in driving scale and success. You will work closely with our sellers to help them succeed on this new platform, and be responsible for delivering GMV targets. You will be responsible for advocating for your sellers, for understanding our platform and how it needs to change, and helping us build a program that scales.
What you will accomplish:
- Bring market expertise to deliver a daring eBay Live GMV target
- Define criteria for selecting sellers to onboard to eBay live, using pattern recognition, analytics, and forecasting to define who is most likely to succeed
- Develop positive relationships with strategic sellers to build out programming and recruit new sellers to the platform
- Shepherd sellers through the onboarding process, helping us identify issues and build processes, tools, and workarounds to address them
- 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.
- Advocate for sellers with cross functional teams, come up with solutions to problems, seed new programs to help sellers be successful, lobby for them, and activate against them
- Contribute to shaping the future structure of the UK Live category team
- Work closely with the core Collectibles & Fashion categories and Marketing teams to drive success
- Experience and interest in live selling formats / innovative shopping formats
- Category management experience ideally in Fashion
- Deep understanding of our platform
- Strong project management, organisation, and partner engagement skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in matrix-led organisations
- Ability to mentor junior members of the team by modelling strong management behaviours
- Customer emotional intelligence
- Ability and willingness to travel to support events including at weekends
Additional Details
eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
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