Senior Partner Consultant (Maternity Cover 12 months)

Overview

At Zalando Marketing Services we create meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities. We work with brands, agencies, and publishers from the fashion world and beyond to produce innovative, impactful campaigns that reach the right audience at the right moment. Thanks to its holistic mix of cutting-edge and privacy compliant technology, in-depth audience insights, expansive reach, and compelling content, brands produce successful campaigns across multiple digital marketing channels.

As a Senior Partner Consultant, you are part of a high performing team focusing on Designer & Luxury partners. We are looking for a self-driven Senior Partner Consultant responsible for creating tailor-made audience advertising strategies and concepts, growing our client base, and selling and promoting our innovative audience advertising. Our Partner Consultancy (PC) unit works with brand partners and merchants to provide various services across the ZMS offering Media, Creative and Insights. As a representative for ZMS, you will also work closely with internal teams especially Category Management, Partner Program, Connected Retail and Zalando Fulfillment Solutions to develop holistic commercial opportunities for our partners.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don\'t meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Build and strengthen relationships with some of our key partners, providing them insightful and data-driven recommendations on marketing strategies, identifying key opportunities and driving long-term business growth
• Orchestrate the execution of the yearly/seasonal marketing plans and campaigns, liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Leverage your entrepreneurial drive to actively grow our client base and to sell and promote our innovative advertising services Media, Creative and Insights to our brand partners. While analyzing data trends and client performance you will develop solid strategic client account plans and compelling pitches
• Plan and negotiate long-term agreements with key clients. Own revenue responsibility for a portfolio of brand partners. Manage and monitor partner revenue targets and goals independently
• Advise fashion brands on state-of-the-art marketing strategies across multiple channels, resulting in trusted advisorship and insightful recommendations, identifying opportunities
• Work cross-functionally within ZMS and Zalando, and collaborate on complex projects to ensure successful campaign implementation and optimisations to drive partner success
• Be seen as a thought-leader and contribute to the development of ZMS products, while mentoring junior team members to promote growth and passion in the team

• Experience with 5+ years of relevant work experience with consulting large, enterprise partners, ideally from working in a brand marketing, sales/media house, e-commerce fashion industry or online publisher
• Strong experience in campaign management and planning, focusing on driving long-term strategic initiatives and relationships to help partners monitor and grow their business through innovative advertising solutions
• Analytically outstanding, with a love for figures and data-driven approaches
• Experience developing long-term relationships and integrating services offered to achieve sales targets
• Ability to drive results and collaborate with brands, think strategically, while understanding the implications of data analysis and building a strategic story from this data
• Passion for online and a continuous curiosity for the online advertising landscape. Willingness to travel as required
• Excellent communication skills in English; confident in interacting and presenting independently at a senior management level

For internal applicants: This is a maternity cover position. If you are selected, it will be your responsibility to secure a new internal role once the maternity leave ends, as the original role holder will be returning to their position.

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits. Here’s an overview of what you can expect.

• 27 days of holiday per year for full-time employees
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week; actual practice is up to each team to best support collaboration
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• Employee shares program
• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando; 30% off Lounge by Zalando; discounts from external partners
• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
• Family services, including counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
• Mental health support and coaching available
• Development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

Please note that all applications from this job page must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail. Once reviewed, our recruiters will contact applicants via an official Zalando email address (@zalando.de).

In some cases we also work with a selection of headhunters and agencies to fill specific roles. Please note that neither Zalando nor our recruiting partners will ask for any kind of payment to apply for a job or attend an interview.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process, please take a look at our FAQ page.

About Zalando

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey to build the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. Help us offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 52 million active customers in 26 markets. Or be part of our logistic infrastructure, software or service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. Join our Zalando ecosystem to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.