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Role overview

Qualifications

  • E-Commerce Passion: You live and breathe the digital retail world and know what it takes to wow customers online
  • Hands-on Mentality: You see an opportunity, take ownership, and make things happen - whether in Marketing, Operations, or Tech
  • Data-Driven Mindset: You enjoy making decisions based on data and insights rather than just gut feeling
  • Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and keep your cool when priorities shift

Responsibilities

  • Work on the technical excellence of our international online marketplace, build smooth integrations, or manage our IT infrastructure
  • Build connections and maintain existing partnerships in Marketplace Management
  • Drive traffic through performance marketing, social media, or CRM strategies in Online Marketing
  • Support our expansion into new countries in Internationalization

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Adaptability
  • Problem Solving
  • Solutions Focused

About the company

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Kaufland e-commerce

E-commerce & Online Marketplaces

This is Kaufland e-commerce We operate Kaufland’s international online marketplaces. Behind the scenes you’ll find a team more than 800 strong, made up of international, inspired, intelligent minds. We work remotely within Germany, as well as in-person at our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, and Düsseldorf. Our goal? Keep improving our customers’ digital shopping experience every day. What motivates us More than 11,000 sellers are connected to our online marketplaces, offering our customers a huge variety of more than 45 million products. Our employees and our platform technology ensure a completely safe, easy and personalised shopping experience – as well as services like the Kaufland app, Kaufland Card and our Fulfillment by Kaufland shipping option. What sets us apart Flexibility is a huge success factor in our dynamic environment. We’re a high-performing company that combines flat hierarchies with the power and infrastructure of a large company group. We merge years of experience in trade with a start-up feeling and e-commerce expertise. Learn more about our history on our website! Imprint: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/impressum/

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryE-commerce & Online Marketplaces
Company size501 - 1000

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Anstellungsdetails

Permanent Contract, Full- or Part-Time, Remote or Cologne / Düsseldorf / Darmstadt / Berlin

Info

Who we are

We are the tech powerhouse behind Kaufland’s international online marketplaces and a company within the Schwarz Group. Driven by a start-up mentality and working on an equal footing within flat hierarchies, we develop the best marketplace solutions for our customers, sellers and partners. #FromEuropeForEurope

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Potential areas - where you can make an impact

  • Tech & Product: Work on the technical excellence of our international online marketplace, build smooth integrations, or manage our IT infrastructure.
  • Marketplace Management: They build connections and maintain existing partnerships because in e-commerce, the right relationships are everything
  • Online Marketing: Elevate our brand and drive traffic through performance marketing, social media, or CRM strategies
  • Internationalization: Support our expansion into new countries, adapting our shop, localization, and strategy for current and future global markets
  • Legal: Ensure our business stays compliant, managing contracts, privacy regulations, and e-commerce law
  • Direct Sales: Drive revenue by building B2B relationships, managing key accounts, or optimizing our direct-to-consumer sales channels
  • Finance: Keep our numbers sharp by supporting budgeting, controlling, accounting, or financial planning
  • Customer Service: Drive exeptional customer support for happy customers, while continuously optimizing our process 
  • Event Management: Plan, organize, and execute internal and external events that bring our brand, partners and employees together
  • Warehouse & Logistics: Streamline our supply chain, optimize inventory, and ensure our products reach customers fast and efficiently
  • Human Resources: Help us attract, retain, and develop top talent while building a great workplace culture
  • Fulfillment: Optimize our order processing, picking, packing, and returns management to ensure an excellent and seamless post-purchase experience for our customers

Profil

Your profile - what you bring to the table

  • E-Commerce Passion: You live and breathe the digital retail world and know what it takes to wow customers online
  • Hands-on Mentality: You see an opportunity, take ownership, and make things happen - whether in Marketing, Operations, or Tech
  • Data-Driven Mindset: You enjoy making decisions based on data and insights rather than just gut feeling
  • Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and keep your cool when priorities shift
  • Solution-Oriented: "We’ve always done it this way" is not in your vocabulary. You are always looking for a better way

Benefits

What we offer

  • Create your own work-life balance: You have the flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or in Berlin!
  • Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga and more
  • Mental Well-Being: We support you on your well-being journey with special offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for online psychological counseling
  • Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have been part of the team for a certain period!
  • Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Buy Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances!
  • ‘Deutschlandticket’: We subsidize your train season ticket for more mobility
  • Employee Discount: You will receive a monthly coupon for Kaufland.de
  • Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
  • Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, and our automated 360-degree feedback. We cover the costs for relevant conferences, training opportunities, and approved team workshops to strengthen personal interactions
  • This is who we are: Our dynamic culture combines flat hierarchies, a start-up mentality, an international team of over 65 nationalities, and the strength of the Schwarz Group to provide you an agile and secure working environment.
  • We are team players: From day one, you will connect not only with your team but also with others through our digital onboarding journey, the buddy program, and regular team and company events, all-hands meetings, powerful mornings, and much more!
Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

To enable a smooth application process and to process your application optimally, Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG as the responsible body collects, processes and uses relevant personal data (e.g. through interviews, CVs, obtaining references from third parties named by you). By sending us your application documents, you agree to the processing of your data within the scope of the application process.

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Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read more here! When applying, you can optionally include your pronouns in your resume.

Why are you the perfect fit for this position?
Don't bother with cover letters - we're interested in facts and figures!

As we have very international teams, we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.

We are looking forward to your application!
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postanschrift:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Köln

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Your contact person: Lea Stahl

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