Senior Manager, Data & Technology

eBay Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Project Manager for their Tax Data Solutions team to lead sophisticated tax initiatives and implement data solutions. This role demands collaboration across functions and requires strong analytical and project management skills to drive business impacts effectively. Candidates should have a passion for problem-solving in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Project management experience in large organizations.
• Experience in scrum processes.
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex initiatives and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance initiatives are accurately prioritized and implemented.
• Lead a team of data and business analysts.

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Intellectual curiosity

Problem-solving

Agile methodology

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

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.

About the role and the team

The Tax Data Solutions team is responsible for handling sophisticated tax and compliance initiatives, delivering business insights and high impact analyses to the Tax function in eBay, automate manual processes for operational efficiencies using AI and ML. The team addresses strategic and operational questions facing the business including Initiatives management, process automations, business sizing and impact measurement, and data science solutions.

The role involves project management of sophisticated cross functional initiatives and is data and analytically intensive. Successful candidates will exhibit a strong project management skill to navigate cross-functions and enable swift decision-making. They will also hold a strategic perspective, sound business judgment and a collaborative working style. They will possess strong intellectual curiosity, and a passion for achieving practical business impact.

What You will Accomplish

• Project Manage complex initiatives, drive decision making and communicate to team members

• Collaborate closely with other business functions like Customer Services, Legal, Finance teams and Product teams to ensure effective project implementation as well as bringing insight to the risks and dependencies

• Protect ebay of financial or non-financial risks by ensuring compliance initiatives are accurately prioritised, implemented and supervised

• Work with Product on project prioritisations using business impact

• Closely supervise product solutions during launch and post launch

• Establish process for change management during scope changes or product bugs

• Ability to take timely action during an unexpected product bug or a high priority issue that could have significant customer facing impact or risk to ebay. Might require flexibility in working hours during that time to ensure alignment with teams based in different time zones w.r.t the urgency of the situation

• Build close partnership with the business unit toIdentify and Exploreareas of impactful analytics and operational opportunities to help drive Operational efficiencies and Cost Reduction

• Lead a team of data and business analysts

• Promote a self-serve analytics culture for the organization by educating partners on key reports, data, and interpretation best practices.

• Recruiting, developing and supervising direct and possibly indirect reports

What You will bring:

• Project management experience in large organizations

• Experienced in scrum processes

• Intellectual curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity

• Experience in technical skills like SQL or Python is good to have, even if not hand-on currently

• A consistent track record of end-to-end analytics - problem definition, collating the required information, analyzing the results, synthesizing and communicating a compelling argument and influencing partners to act

• Experienced in big data

• Agile experience

• Ability to translate commercial requirements into software solutions

• Capable to work independently while acting as part of a distributed team

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability in Data and Project management

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