Senior Partner Consultant (Maternity Cover 12 months)

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 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 as well as growing our client base and will be responsible for 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 various internal teams especially Category Management, Partner Program, Connected Retail and Zalando Fulfillment Solutions to work on holistic commercial opportunities for our partners.

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

● Build and strengthen relationships with some of our key partners, providing them insightful and data-driven recommendations on marketing strategies, identifying key opportunities and drive long-term business growth

● Responsible for orchestrating 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. Whilst 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. Have 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, providing them with insightful recommendations, and identifying opportunities.
● Work cross-functionally within ZMS and Zalando, and collaborate on complex projects and ensure successful campaign implementation and optimisations to drive partner success
● Be seen as a thought-leader and contribute to the development of ZMS products, whilst being a role model and mentoring junior team members in order to promote growth and passion in the team

●Experience with 5+ or more years of relevant work experience with consulting large, enterprise partners, ideally from working in a brand marketing, sales/media house, e-comm fashion industry or online publisher.
● Strong 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
● Analytically outstanding, you love working with figures and data-driven approaches
● Experienced with developing long term relationships and integrating services offered to achieve sales targets
● 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. You are confident in interacting and presenting independently at a senior management level.

• For internal applicants: Please note that this is a maternity cover position. If you choose to apply and 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.

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