Lead Customer Care Operations

**THE ROLE & THE TEAM**:
As Lead Customer Care Operations (all genders) you will be responsible for managing our 14 Zalando Lounge markets in terms of performance, quality and customer experience. The Operations Manager will support the development of our Customer Care in terms of growth, efficiency, innovation, people and many more. Additionally, the Operations Manager has the responsibility for capacity planning and real time management of the operations (internal teams and 3rd Party).

**INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN**:
**WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED**:

- Leading a team of 2 Senior Team Leads (leading 8 Team leads and external Service Provider themselves) and developing the skills of each individual and their teams as a whole
- Contribute to strategic initiatives and their execution. Independently drive own initiatives that support developing Customer Care
- Challenge the status quo and drives efficiency and optimization forward with data-driven conclusions
- Key stakeholder for other teams into the organization; involves stakeholders at an early stage to ensure their commitment. Anticipates needs and mediates the interests of diverse stakeholders to get everyone on board even on difficult decisions
- Responsible for reaching financial objectives by analyzing performance; preparing annual budget; analyzing variances & initiating corrective actions supported by Controlling.
- Building and investing into our CuCa Community

**WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF**:

- As an expert you come across with relevant experience in an operational role in a management function, e.g. as a Head of Customer Care or comparable departments like logistics in a start-up environment
- Strong business and customer focus with a clear view on relevant cause and event circumstances.
- As Lead Customer Care Operations you have strong people leadership skills, the ability to motivate and develop teams, provide guidance and support for teams to learn and grow
- Analytical skills and logical thinking, ability to manage complexity, velocity and rapid change
- Experience in managing broad stakeholder structures across several teams and business units
- Fluent in English, German is an advantage but not required

**ZALANDO BENEFITS**:
**Career Development**
- Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
- Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities

**Wellbeing**
- 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
- Minimum of 27 holiday days per year

**Flexibility**
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working model with 60% remote per week
- Opportunity to work from abroad for 30 (working) days per year

**Financial**
- Access to the employee shares program
- 40% shopping discount on fashion & beauty products shipped and sold by Zalando, and 30% discount on Zalando Lounge

**Family**
- Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
- 3 fully-paid child sick days per year

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- We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need._

**ABOUT ZALANDO**:
Zalando Lounge is an online shopping club for fashion and lifestyle products in 14 countries. We offer our members daily, time-limited sale campaigns with discounts of up to 75% off the recommended retail price. Our strength lies in our focus on fashion: from sought-after labels to niche brands - we make sure to meet the fashion taste of all our customers. Working with our brand partners, we pioneer innovative supply-chain and production processes, and offer them an impactful and smart solution, creating a new way to shop for fashion - and a new way to sell it.