Business Development Lead - Hard Goods

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We have a newly built position for someone to play a pivotal role in driving eBay's position in Refurbished Hard Goods (Electronics & Home).
With a passion for sustainability & re-commerce, a background working in Hard Goods (Electronics & Home) business development, this is the perfect opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference in how customers shop!

This opening will help shape the Refurbished Hard Goods (Electronics & Home) category strategy, and implement this through acquiring strategically important sellers, brands and retailers to ensure that eBay has the inventory to continue to grow in this area.

The Business Development Manager is responsible for building, leading and delivering the end to end acquisition pipeline to optimize the selection of brands and inventory on the eBay platform for customers.

We want to hear from you if you have a phenomenal marketplace background in acquiring brands and sellers that customers love through a high energy, innovative approach that brings fresh ideas to the table.

Key interfaces include :

• Category/Trade/Focus Verticals
• Business Development
• Operations
• Merchant Integration Solutions
• Advertising
• Horizontal Trading
• Marketing
• Risk & Trust

What you will accomplish:

• Identify targets and a network of contacts for both the short and long term acquisition of businesses new to eBay.
  Through running a significant sales pipeline, providing a constant stream of new inventory to site from such brands & sellers for the 'Trading' function to using our regular promotional cycles, it will deliver on a range of critical metrics and success measures.
  
• Work with newly onboarded brands and sellers to deliver on their readiness to trade ensuring they are optimizing the full trading capability of the platform, the role will also build and expand partnerships with marketplace agencies / service providers who have limited presence on eBay today to further drive seller and inventory acquisition to grow the eBay business.
  
• Constantly innovate, develop your operating model to keep pace with the constantly evolving ecommerce and commerce market plus building the team's execution and operational capability, this exciting opening will drive procedural change and business performance.
  

What will you bring:

• People leadership:
  provides direction, coaching & mentorship to junior team members within their focus area; whilst supporting their professional development more broadly.
  
• eCommerce & Marketplaces knowledge:
  a validated background and understanding of the marketplaces/platform market, its competitors and supporting businesses (i.e.
  listing management; integrators; logistics; customer services) with a clear point of view on what is required for our partners to succeed in this space.
  Hard Goods (Electronics & Home) experience is required.
  
• New business & commercial expertise:
  experience in developing new business for a large organization, having led e-commerce commercial teams and consistently delivered strategies effectively even under challenging circumstances.
  
• Relationship management:
  builds and sustains relationships across all functions and levels internally in the organization, to ensure flawless integration and detailed execution of plans.
  The ability to apply influencing and negotiation skills with external businesses to build and maintain mutually beneficial commercial relations - with a deep understanding of brand, seller & partner needs, challenges and opportunities for growth.
  
• Strategic & Analytical orientation:
  a keen strategic and analytical problem solver with the knack of sifting through detail, and putting sophisticated ideas into clear frameworks.
  Insists on proof in data, peeling back layers to understand root causes, and uses data to drive innovation and decisions.
  

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience.
The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave).
Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an 'at-will position' and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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