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Senior Category Manager, Live

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GBP 45,000

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2 days ago

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Job summary

eBay is seeking a Senior Category Manager for its Live selling platform, responsible for driving seller engagement and meeting GMV targets. This role involves onboarding sellers, providing mentorship, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance eBay Live's impact in the market.

Qualifications

Experience and interest in live selling formats.
Category management experience preferably in Collectables and/or Fashion.
Deep understanding of the eBay platform.

Responsibilities

Deliver GMV targets for eBay Live by selecting and onboarding sellers.
Develop relationships with strategic sellers and understand drivers of success.
Advocate for sellers across various teams and contribute to team structure.

Skills

Communication

Project Management

Customer Emotional Intelligence

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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.

eBay Live is a new way to sell on eBay, where sellers and buyers interact live on video. eBay sellers build buyer trust, expand their customer base, and grow repeat business through consistent and engaging live streams on eBay Live. eBay buyers can view, chat, ask questions, give feedback, vote, and buy online during eBay Live selling.

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

What You Will Bring

Experience and interest in live selling formats
Category management experience preferably in Collectables and/or Fashion
Deep understanding of our platform
Strong project management, organisation, and partner engagement skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Customer emotional intelligence
Ability and willingness to travel to support events including at weekends

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Seniority level

Seniority level
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Marketing and Sales
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Technology, Information and Internet

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