Business Development Associate London, England
Job description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
ASOS Partner Fulfilment Programme
The ASOS Partner Fulfilment programme is a gateway for ASOS Partner Brands to sell their inventory directly to ASOS customers. The programme’s aim is to improve the ASOS customer experience by providing improved size availability and more choice within the current brand portfolio as well as onboarding 100’s of locally relevant brands in key markets globally. We have an ambitious target for the programme to make up 5% of total ASOS GMV by 2025
The Team
The Partner Fulfilment team falls within the Commercial Operations function; it is our job to manage a key trading leaver for the Commercial teams in order to maximise the trading opportunities with our brand partners on the ASOS.com platform.
The Role
The Business Development Associate will work closely with the Senior Business Development Manager (SBDM) to recommend and onboard new brands to the Partner Fulfils programme. They will support the onboarding Partners through the entire process, from initial meetings with brands to the launch. They will need to work externally with our partner brands and middleware providers as well as internally across multiple functions including Tech, Legal, Studios & B&M alongside the Partner Programme Planning and Account Management teams.
This is a great opportunity to experience multiple areas of the business functions and manage projects from start to finish.
What you’ll be doing:
- Support the review and progression of new applications to the Partner Programme.
- Work with the SBDM to project manage commercial integration for all Partner Fulfil brands.
- Support the B&M teams with the integration; lead B&M onboarding meetings & regular touch points, assist with training on key aspects of PF – from EANs to size group.
- Build excellent working relationships with our brand partners during the onboarding process, answering queries & escalating issues.
- Be able to prioritise, creative problem solve and communicate improvements.
- Constantly looking at ways to refine & streamline the onboarding process.
- Maximise the use of middleware provider capability including new brand identification and onboarding efficiencies
- Work with our ASOS Tech team to drive efficiency in the onboarding process & mange the integrations E2E
- Support smooth handover of new integrations to the Account Management function
- Become an expert in how Marketplace operations run for ASOS and our competitors in market
Who We’d Like to Meet...
Someone with experience within a Retail business with high commercial awareness, keen to work across multiple functions within ASOS and build strong relationships with our Partners. This is a great opportunity for someone to be part of building a start up business within ASOS.
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
Employee sample sales
Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
Private medical care scheme
Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
