WE ARE DENIM HEADS.
We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA.
At G-STAR, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow. Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.
Join the denim heads making raw denim!
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
HERE’S WHAT WE’LL DO TOGETHER:
The Marketplace Manager is responsible for driving the commercial, operational, strategic performance and portfolio expansion of G-STAR’s marketplace channels (Currently Zalando, About You, Secret Sales, OTTO, Showroom Privé, Limango and growing!). This role includes end-to-end ownership of business planning, partner management, budgeting, product assortment, onboarding execution, and overall operational excellence.
The position acts as a key link between partners, internal stakeholders, and marketplace platforms to ensure profitable growth and best-in-class customer experience.
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Business Roadmap & Growth: Create and execute the annual business roadmap for new marketplace initiatives.
- Trade Performance & Opportunity Analysis: Analyze and monitor trade performance across marketplaces, consolidate and present weekly sell-through insights to stakeholders, and identify new business opportunities that connect marketplace and wholesale teams.
- Team Leadership: Lead and manage the marketplace team in making sure operational processes and excellence are optimized.
- Budget & P&L Ownership: Set annual budgets, monitor financial performance, and take responsibility for the P&L.
- Commercial & Sales Strategy: Lead commercial and trade strategies to achieve sales targets.
- Profitability Management: Develop and analyze profitability strategies to support business growth.
- Marketing & Assortment Strategy: Steer marketing spend and budget with the digital marketing manager and ensure the product mix is aligned with all stakeholders.
- Seasonal Buying Support: Provide input to the buying team to support correct seasonal buying decisions.
- Legal, Tax & Accounting Alignment: Work closely with legal, tax, and accounting to ensure smooth partner set up.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
- A degree in business or a related field.
- Proven experience in marketplace management, or a similar role, preferably within the fashion industry.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and drive actions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and partners.
- Strong organizational and project-management skills.
- Understanding of commercial KPIs, P&L management, and digital merchandising.
- Experience in Tableau is preferred.
- Experience with Tradebyte is preferred.
- Self-confident and energetic with strong business acumen
- Finally, do you have a strong verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English? We’d love to meet you!
WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE:
Located in Amsterdam, our G-STAR HQ offers the chance to work in a diverse environment, with a team of about 300 employees who represent more than 35 nationalities. We all work and collaborate together to be on top of the game and become the number one denim brand!
Beyond a competitive salary, working at G-STAR brings many other perks and exciting opportunities:
- A work environment that offers room for fun, inspiration and innovation,
- A clothing budget to showcase your personal style while representing G-STAR,
- A healthy lunch at our canteen,
- Free access to learning and development platforms Udemy and Goodhabitz,
- Flexibility to work from home 1 day a week,
- A discount on a new bicycle and gym membership.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT:
• We will thoroughly review your CV.
• We have a large expat community at G-STAR, so please apply in English.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will call you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• Because we’re very curious how you’d survive a mission impossible, we ask you to prepare a real-life business case in a follow-up interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store. Good luck!
• We have a large expat community at G-STAR, so please apply in English.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will call you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• Because we’re very curious how you’d survive a mission impossible, we ask you to prepare a real-life business case in a follow-up interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store. Good luck!