Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry, connecting customers in over 190 countries with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world's best brands and charming boutiques from around the world. Farfetch opens a world of luxury for endless expressions of style, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.

The Commercial team drives our strategic partnerships with the world's leading brands and boutiques to source the best selection and optimise sales channels for our partners. Their work offers our customers access to incredible products and the most extensive selection of luxury for endless style.

Our New York office is located in Midtown near the iconic Bryant Park and the historic Grand Central Terminal, New York's best-connected office neighbourhood. The beautifully designed office has 360 views and tall windows to bring the outside in. The office is open with plenty of rooms and booths to take a private call, have time to relax, work in private, or have a large collaborative meeting.

The role is to collaborate with the Head of Commercial on business development strategy for North America (US + Canada) across brands and multi-brand boutiques in the luxury space. This person will be pivotal in planning and implementing new business strategy into a tactical and operational plan of action. You will represent Farfetch externally, be potential supply partners ambassador internally and be recognised as an expert outside the company.

This person will utilize established relationships with high-end boutiques and brands in order to introduce them to the Farfetch marketplace business model, build partnership strategy and external trust. This person will be the primary point of contact for potential new supply partners and work cross functionally to project manage the successful onboarding on new business. The success of Farfetch.com is guided by the relationships with our supply partners and this team member will have a pivotal role in the success of the business.

We're looking for an analytical, commercially minded, strategic thinker, who is confident in managing complicated cross-functional projects and influencing change across senior stakeholders, both internal and external.

What You'll Do

• Support in developing short, medium & long term business development strategy for Farfetch North America region.
• Hit the ground running to support current business development workstreams.
• Stay up to date on current industry trends & challenges; pivoting business develop strategy in real time based on business needs.
• Understand the luxury ecommerce industry and the specificities of the US & Canada market, monitor other ecommerce channels outside Farfetch.
• Support commercial team on current partnership expansions & contract renewals.
• Support the design and implementation of ad-hoc commercial agreements to generate additional revenue working closely with other teams across the company.
• Ensure, maintain and facilitate on-going relationships with potential supply partners by working with other departments : Commercial Planning & Pricing, Account Management, Operations.
• Travel, when needed, to pitch Farfetch marketplace to relevant industry businesses. Travel within continental US + Canada.

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