Lead, Strategy and Biz Ops, Germany

This role, based in Dreilinden, will report into the General Manager of eBay Germany, and will focus on business operations and strategy for the German business. This is a high profile role which will execute against critical initiatives, business plans and day to day operations that will deliver impactful business change, driving a customer-centric organization that works together to drive enterprise value!

What you will accomplish:

• Strategic Partner to GM: In collaboration with the leadership team, serve as a strategic partner to the international markets GMs, spanning from critical initiatives, annual planning, to daily business operations. 

• Steering and Driving Strategic Projects: Spearhead cross-vertical and horizontal projects to drive solutions to the organization’s strategic challenges and initiatives, including developing and sharing project plans, timelines, roles and responsibilities. 

• Overseeing Business Operations: Owning the regular business operations for the portfolio, including defining relevant measurement methodologies and tracking against those goals via regular reporting cadences and touchpoints (WBRs, QBRs, etc.)

• Preparing Executive-Level Deliverables: Engage and work with cross-functional teams to deliver executive-level outputs in many formats, including ELT/board decks and other senior leadership readout

What you will bring:

• Proven track record of strategic planning and execution, taking a project from idea to full implementation in a large complex organization. A consulting / strategy background is preferred.

• Results oriented with a consistent record in managing metrics with impact on business performance and an analytical approach 

• Fluent English; fluent German preferred

• Proven record of delivery and an ability to excel in a dynamic and fast paced environment, being able to influence and collaborate across teams

• Ability to articulate vision and purpose for the initiatives and programs as it relates to long-term goals and objectives

• Experience with Project, program management & delivery

• Strong communication skills, quickly able to gain trust and confidence with people at all levels

• Able to articulate challenges, blockers, problems effectively and be able to work through solutions with team members to overcome them

• Strong excel (modeling, pivot tables, advance functions, statistics) and PowerPoint skills, being able to tell a story at various levels 

• Executive level verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to tell an elegant story backed by data

• Highly organized, systematic problem solver who thrives on being efficient

• Passionate for attention to detail

• Comfortable and hands-on with data, analytics, and modeling

• Desire to “roll up your sleeves” to perform all functions from administrative processing to leading change initiatives

• Solid project management skills, having managed and successfully delivered multiple, complex projects on-time and on-budget

• Highly inclusive and can build relationships across different countries at various levels 

• Exposure to an ecommerce/ marketplaces is advantageous 

• Fluent German & English (written & verbal)

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