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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.
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
- Experience and interest in live selling formats / innovative shopping formats
- Category management experience ideally in Fashion
- Deep understanding of our platform
- Strong project management, organisation, and partner engagement skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in matrix-led organisations
- Ability to mentor junior members of the team by modelling strong management behaviours
- Customer emotional intelligence
- Ability and willingness to travel to support events including at weekends
Additional Details
eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Skills Required
- Experience and interest in live selling or innovative shopping formats
- Category management experience
- Category management experience in Fashion
- Deep understanding of the eBay platform
- Strong project management, organisation, and partner engagement skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in matrix-led organisations
- Ability to mentor and model strong management behaviours for junior team members
- Customer emotional intelligence
- Ability and willingness to travel to support events including weekends
- Experience using analytics, forecasting, and pattern recognition to identify high-potential sellers
- Seller relationship management and onboarding experience
eBay Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about eBay and has not been reviewed or approved by eBay.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage begin on the date of hire, complemented by mental health resources, an EAP, disability coverage, FSAs, and wellness initiatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A robust mix of PTO, paid holidays, flexible work styles, parental leave, and a four‑week paid sabbatical after five years supports work‑life balance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total compensation commonly includes stock components, with access to an employee stock purchase plan at a discount and stock awards enhancing overall packages.
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What We Do
eBay Inc. is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes. Our portfolio of brands includes eBay Marketplace and eBay Classifieds Group, operating in 190 markets around the world. We offer sellers the ability to grow a business with little barrier to entry regardless of size, background or geographic location. We never compete with our sellers. We win when our sellers succeed. Buyers who shop on our Marketplace and Classifieds platforms enjoy a highly personalized experience with an unparalleled selection at great value.
