Alibaba Jobs in France

Position: Alibaba Global Business Strategic Partnership Manager Paris

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow the business relationships with our Strategic Key Accounts in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg while embracing digital innovation across numerous areas and services (B2C, B2B, Payments, Technology Services, and Innovations, etc.).
• Evaluate the economic and strategic cost-benefit of partnerships.
• Work with cross-functional teams across Alibaba’s key business units such as Tmall, Alimama, B2B, Alibaba Cloud, to execute on the identified levers of growth for your respective Strategic Key Accounts.
• Develop best practices to foster, manage, and track opportunities.
• Furthermore, supports the strategic objectives and interests of Alibaba’s business teams on a global basis.

Requirements

• Able to work pro-actively and thrive in what is currently a highly ambiguous environment. Flexibility and the ability to deal with ambiguity will be fundamental to all candidates.
• A genuine enthusiasm for China and the adventure of bringing Alibaba’s offerings to Europe
• A naturally multicultural and international bent that can be partly demonstrated by linguistic skills i.e. the ability to fluently speak French and English and one other language – ideally Mandarin
• Excellent oral and written skills to communicate complex issues and influence others internally and externally.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to gain respect for senior management and external executives.
• Ability to build and maintain a network of relationships which facilitate an efficient deal flow
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively while applying sound business judgment and quantitative analytics.
• Thought leader in defining success criteria and understand the business needs of large business partners in an ever-changing business environment. Similarly, must be a self-starter who can excel in a fast-paced and fluid environment.
• Competency with Internet and mobile technologies as well as a passion for learning and the desire to grow as a business leader and person.
• Strong desire to engage and build cross-cultural business ties between Europe and China.

About Alibaba

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company specializing in e-commerce,  retail,  Internet, and technology. It owns and operates a diverse array of businesses around the world in numerous sectors. Overall, Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company, one of the largest Internet and AI companies, one of the biggest venture capital firms, and one of the biggest investment corporations in the world. In addition to that, the company hosts the largest B2B (Alibaba.com), C2C (Taobao), and B2C (Tmall) marketplaces in the world.