Senior Catalog Data Acquisition Specialist

**Company Description**
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of **Care**, **Courage**, **Openness**, and **Simplicity**. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

The Senior Catalog Data Acquisition Specialist is responsible for streamlining and enhancing catalog data acquisition processes to ensure timely and accurate product listings. This role focuses on optimizing workflows, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing manual effort in data collection. As a senior specialist, you will lead initiatives to improve efficiency, collaborate with key stakeholders, and implement best practices for data management including integration of new data acquisition methods to ensure the product catalog is efficiently filled with accurate, complete, and up-to-date information.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Data Acquisition

Use diversified methods such as API integrations, web scraping, manual data entry, vendor data imports, etc. to collect comprehensive product data for the e-commerce catalog.
- Process Optimization

Identify bottlenecks in the current data collection and processing workflows, and implement solutions to optimize performance, reduce listing times, and shorten time-to-market.

Data Integration & Processing
- Collaborate with IT and data engineering teams to integrate new data sources, ensuring data flows smoothly into consuming systems.
- Vendor Coordination

Communicate with suppliers and vendors to obtain accurate, rich and up-to-date product information, specifications, and images; manage data feeds from external partners.
- Catalog Maintenance

Regularly update and maintain the product catalog, ensuring that new products are added, discontinued products are removed, and all product details remain up to date.
- Data Validation & Quality Control

Ensure all collected product data is accurate, consistent, and complete; perform quality checks to detect and correct errors or inconsistencies in the product catalog.
- Reporting

Generate periodic reports on catalog data acquisition progress, data quality metrics, and coverage of product data across categories.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in data management, information systems, business, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in catalog data acquisition, data management, or a related role, with at least 2 years in an e-commerce environment.
- Proven track record of optimizing data acquisition processes to reduce listing times and improve operational efficiency.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English, ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and ensure alignment
- Team player with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others
- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
- Ability to unlock complex issues and to work proactively on proposals, solution-oriented approach
- Highly motivated, agile, project-oriented mindset

**Additional Information**
With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely.

**Our benefits**:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
LI-Hybrid✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
️ Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
Company mobile phone for work and personal use

Want to know more? Learn more about zooplus here, and check out our LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get a glimpse into the zooplus culture.

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.