Associate Category Manager Hard Goods

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About the team:

We play an instrumental role in connecting people with the things they need and love anytime anywhere. The Americas help deliver a personalized shopping experience and seamless access to inventory from down the street and around the world as well as tailored shopping experiences including customized buying and selling. eBay seeks to drive growth into new markets and drive value in the shopping and selling experience through building accelerating and reinventing. The team consists of marketing merchandising operations business selling consumer selling and shipping.

We are looking for a Category Manager to join our Verticals team at eBay. You will help own the Focus Category Expansion in Electronics and Home Improvement if you have an ownership mentality are able to build crossfunctional relationships and are ready to make an exciting move we would love to hear from you!

What you will accomplish:

Were seeking a strategic and datadriven individual to help accelerate growth within our Electronics and Home Improvement categories. In this role youll play a critical part in driving our category expansion strategy by collaborating with highimpact sellers and crossfunctional teams. Your team will be directly accountable for the success of your categories with a focus on endtoend performance.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive category strategy for a twosided marketplace spanning the full eCommerce journeyfrom identifying buyer needs to postpurchase experience.

• Partner with internal partners to deliver critical initiatives that enhance both buyer and seller satisfaction.

• Lead relationships with top sellers brands and external partners to drive significant business impact.

• Analyze category performance and provide actionable recommendations to drive optimization and growth.

• Maintain healthy inventory coverage and identify assortment gaps; work closely with Account Management and Business Development to address needs.

• Define and track core category health metricsincluding pricing inventory breadth discoverability customer satisfaction and overall experience.

• Collaborate with regional teams global marketing and account managers to align on trading strategies and incentive programs.

• Support ongoing growth initiatives across various crossfunctional teams.

What you will bring:

• 24 years of experience in buying merchandising or category management within retail or consumer products. eCommerce experience is required.

• Ability to thrive in a fastpaced evolving environment with a high degree of ambiguity.

• Customer and datacentric approach with a proven ability to turn insights into impactful strategies.

• Entrepreneurial spirit with a resultsoriented approach to achieving KPIs.

• Skilled in partner management negotiation and crossfunctional collaboration.

• Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities with the ability to extract meaning and insights from complex data sets.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including location skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired employees will be in an atwill position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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