Franz Winkler

- Leading the Zalando Ballsport Buying Team - Setting up and leading strategic meetings to align with brands and suppliers on relevant topics and strategies - Shaping business according to customer needs, with up-to-date market knowledge and the use of relevant platform services - Developing the end to end assortment and business model strategy for my unit, in close collaboration with merchandising counterpart - Negotiation and maintenance of terms and conditions with key suppliers

- Strategically planning, buying and developing the Zalando Basketball, Golf and American Sports assortment. - Using strong KPI knowledge to analyze past and plan future seasons. - Developing and implementing the assortment and business model strategy for my portfolio, and actively contribute to setting and delivering on strategies and targets. - Usage of negotiation skills to deliver success to my business and the company. - Sharing knowledge with other stakeholders and mentoring newjoiners.

- Strategically planning, buying and developing of the Zalando Basketball, Golf and American Sports assortment. - Using strong KPI knowledge to analyze past and plan future seasons. - Tracking daily and weekly sales to stay on top of the business. - Usage of negotiation skills to deliver success to my business and the company. - Building knowledge around customer needs, with up-to-date market knowledge and the use of relevant platform services.

- Buying and developing the overall business of the Zalando Basketball and Golf. - Using KPI knowledge to analyze past seasons. - Tracking daily and weekly sales to stay on top of the business. - First experience in leading supplier meetings. - First involvement of negotiations with the support of Senior Leadership. - First involvement in the process of planning future seasons. - Contributing to the creative and commercial strategy of the unit. - Assisting Senior Buyers with operational tasks.

- Buying and developing the overall business of the Zalando Basketball with the support of Senior Leadership. - Gaining a basic understanding of relevant KPIs and how to analyze them. - Supporting Senior Leadership in all operational tasks around the buying process. - Participating in meetings with suppliers and other stakeholders. - Tracking daily and weekly sales. - Leading several operational topics, such as the whole sample process for the unit but also the whole of Zalando Sport.

Professional basketball player in the second league Pro B Nord for the Rostock Seawolves

Organization and controlling of the online shop; maintenance, analysis and edit of product data in the online shop; improvement of product presentation; processing customer inquiries; translations of German texts into English; communication with foreign customers

Marketing and Management