THE ROLE & THE TEAM
At Zalando Marketing Services we create meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities. We are working 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 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 Partner Consultant, you are part of a high performing team, creating new and innovative ways to connect people and fashion. We are looking for a self-driven Partner Consultant, where you are responsible for creating tailor-made advertising strategies and concepts as well as growing our client base and will be responsible for selling and promoting our innovative audience advertising, as well as content-creation-solutions to advertisers and other demand side partners. Our Partner Consultancy (PC) unit works with brand partners and merchants to provide various services across the ZMS offering Insights, Content and Reach. As a representative for ZMS, you will also work closely with various internal teams especially Category Management, Partner Program, Connected Retail and Zalando Fulfillment Solutions to work on 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.
Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion
WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
● Build and strengthen relationships with our partners, providing them insightful recommendations on campaign strategies, creating tailor-made yearly marketing plans, identifying key opportunities and driving long-term business growth
●Gain a deep understanding of our brand partners’ business goals and turn data into compelling stories and actionable insights to help them succeed with the help of our innovative advertising services (Insights, Content and Reach)
● Build and maintain strong relationships with Brand partners’ teams (executive, operational, creative, measurement and agency), resulting in trusted advisorship, providing them with insightful recommendations, and identifying opportunities.
● Identification of upsell opportunities based on optimization and adjustment of set campaign strategies - herein close collaboration with Operations and
Consulting to optimize and secure (on-top) business.
● Development of partners in line with set targets - in terms of overarching revenue as well as strategic goals (e.g. MI, product adoption, revenue diversification).
● Advise fashion brands on state-of-the-art marketing strategies across multiple channels, collaborating and consulting across major customers, resulting in trusted advisorship, providing them with insightful recommendations, and identifying opportunities.
● Generation of impactful campaign results that meet client expectations and meaningful learnings to further improve collaboration with the partner as well as ZMS offering / processes.
WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF...
Experience with 4+ or more years of relevant work experience digital marketing, media strategy or a related field, ideally from working in either retail media, a media house, e-comm fashion industry or online publisher.
Experience in campaign management and planning, with a focus on driving long term strategic initiatives and relationships, help partners to monitor and grow their business through innovative advertising solutions.
Experienced in full-funnel marketing strategy with demonstrated success in executing marketing strategies (including media and activation plans) that achieve measurable results and deliver actionable insights that drive business outcomes.
Ability to drive results and collaborate with brands, think strategically, whilst also having the ability to understand the implications of data analysis and build a strategic story from this data
Passion for online and a never-ending curiosity for the online advertising landscape. You are willing to travel as per work requirement.
Excellent communication skills in English is a must; German is an advantage.You are confident in interacting and presenting independently at a senior management level.
We are seeking a candidate with experience managing accounts complex brand campaigns in a digital environment within the Sports team.
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect.
27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their 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
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review
