Placement Year 2026 – UK Marketplace

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Placement Year 2026 UK Marketplace

About the team and the role:

This placement hiring campaign brings together UK-based placement opportunities across eBay teams focused on buyer and seller experience category growth trading strategy & operations and scaling new initiatives such as eBay Live.
You will join a collaborative and inclusive environment working cross-functionally with Analytics Product Marketing Finance Category/Trading Operations and Communications teams. Each placement offers hands-on exposure to meaningful business work where your analysis coordination and insights will directly support decision-making and marketplace growth.
This is a 12-month full-time UK-based placement (hybrid working depending on team needs). You will apply once and may be matched to one of the tracks below based on your interests skills and business priorities.

What you will accomplish:

• Contribute to measurable marketplace outcomes through performance tracking insight generation and operational support
• Turn data research and collaborator input into clear summaries and actionable recommendations
• Support planning and execution of category trading programme or operational initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve buyer and seller experiences
• Develop practical skills in analysis coordination and partner communication
• Gain exposure to how eBay operates at scale across categories and customer journeys

What you will bring:

• Currently enrolled in a UK degree and eligible for a 12-month placement from September 2026
• Confidence working with Excel / Google Sheets and basic data analysis
• Strong organisation and attention to detail
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Curiosity about e-commerce marketplaces and customer behaviour
• Ability to work hybrid within the UK with onsite days in our Richmond ( London ) office (team-specific expectations shared during process)
• Open to students who can commit to a 12-month industry placement will return to university afterward and will still be enrolled (i.e. not graduated) by September 2027.

Recruiting process

• Apply to this single job posting by the 11th March 2026.
• If shortlisted you will speak with a recruiter for an initial chat.
• If you progress you will complete an interview round with the business
• If successful you will be assigned to one of the teams below based on business needs and abilities.

Buyer Success: UK Buyer Strategy

You will join the UK Buyer Strategy team focused on improving the experience of UK buyers on this role you will support tracking of key buyer performance metrics identify trends and performance movements and gather context from Analytics and partner teams to interpret changes. You will monitor competitor buyer journeys and industry trends build structured approaches to capturing insights and maintain visibility of UK and global initiatives impacting buyers including homepage tests and experiments. Your work will contribute to clearer performance discussions and more informed decision-making across the UK business.

Category Management: Electronics & Home (Refurbished / Open-Box)

You will work within the Electronics & Home Category Management team supporting the growth of refurbished and open-box programmes. The role combines data-driven analysis and hands-on trading support including forecasting against budget identifying weekly and monthly performance drivers contributing to trading plans with Marketing and Deals teams and supporting pricing range and gap analysis. You will also help build arguments and contribute to category planning activities that drive competitiveness and growth within non-new inventory.

Global Fashion Planning & Operations

You will join a distributed team operating at the intersection of Fashion strategy operations and analytics. The role is broad and dynamic supporting global programmes from planning through execution maintaining dashboards and reporting coordinating cross-regional collaborators and contributing to internal communications. Alongside operational delivery you will support data modelling market and competitor analysis and ad-hoc strategic projects that inform growth initiatives across regions and categories.

UK B2C Selling Analyst

You will be part of the UK B2C Selling team representing the voice of business sellers and supporting data-driven decision-making. The role combines programme management and analytics including ownership of a key operational programme (e.g. tracking forecasting reporting) analysis of seller sentiment and satisfaction metrics and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative feedback into clear recommendations. You will collaborate with Marketing Analytics and other partners to strengthen the business seller proposition and improve seller experience.

C2C Associate

You will support initiatives focused on customer-to-customer selling working with global and UK partners to monitor competitor and customer trends analyse business performance and develop insights that inform growth strategies. The role includes coordinating marketing activities supporting engagement and product testing initiatives maintaining trackers and documentation and helping cross-functional teams align on improvements to the customer selling experience.

UK Fashion: Category Trading & Strategic Partnerships

You will join the UK Fashion team supporting Category Management Trading and Strategic Partnerships. The role includes researching fashion and resale trends monitoring competitor activity and buyer signals supporting promotional planning and buyer activations maintaining reporting templates (e.g. weekly business reviews) and coordinating across Marketing Live C2C and Account Management teams. You will help ensure initiatives are well-organised tracked and accomplished effectively across the fashion category.

Category Management: Parts & Accessories (Including eBay Live Rollout)

You will join the UK Vehicle Parts & Accessories Category Management team supporting growth across new and non-new inventory. The role includes conducting data analysis to understand category and seller performance. It also involves preparing presentations and arguments. Additionally the role supports day-to-day category initiatives and contributes to the rollout of eBay Live within the vertical. You will work closely with Category Managers and project partners to support innovation seller enablement and execution of new marketplace initiatives.

eBay Live (Programming or Operations)

You will join the eBay Live team supporting the growth of real-time interactive live commerce in the UK. Depending on focus area you may support live event programming and performance tracking (engagement viewership sales) or onboarding and activation of sellers including materials development reporting coordination and process improvement. The role is varied and collaborative offering exposure to live commerce operations seller enablement and platform scaling within a fast-growing area of the business.

Marketing: Brand & Media Campaigns Planning & Creative

You will join the UK Marketing Brand team supporting crosschannel campaign planning and execution (briefs asset coordination partner alignment brand governance performance reporting insight generation) and translate performance into clear insights and recommendations collaborating with Analytics Product Trading Category and Comms to deliver measurable outcomes that strengthen buyer engagement and marketplace growth.

CRM UK Customer Team

You will join the UK Customer team part of the global CRM organisation building and optimising communications across email push and onsite messaging (segmentation content production QA scheduling testandlearn) to improve engagement and retention. Partnering with Analytics Product Trading Core AI and Brand to align programs and features to customer and business priorities - turning data into actionable recommendations that drive measurable outcomes and marketplace growth

Additional Details

Disclaimer: Please note that by applying to this role you are agreeing to be considered for multiple positions. This is a general description of the qualifications and skills required for positions of this type of role.

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