BESTSECRET

BESTSECRET is the leading European online destination for premium and luxury off-price fashion. The Group offers its members in 28 countries across Europe a superior brand portfolio complemented by a high-end shopping experience. At the same time, BESTSECRET enables its brand partners to clear overstock at scale with minimum visibility and maximum brand equity protection. The unique business model is based on its closed character with an invitation-only customer membership, longstanding brand partner and customer relationships, combined with a tech-focused mindset. BESTSECRET has a strong track record of profitable growth over many years. It generated revenues of EUR 1,533.7 million in 2025 and employs around 2,200 people from over 90 nations. The Group draws on a heritage of 100 years in the textile and fashion industry and today is owned by Permira Funds and the founding families Schustermann and Borenstein.

As VP Sports

As VP Sports, you will lead one of the company's most strategically important divisions, setting the long-term vision, growth strategy, and commercial performance of the Sports business. Operating at the intersection of customer demand, brand partnerships, and market trends, you will drive division expansion, profitability, and competitive differentiation within a fast-growing digital retail environment. As a member of the Commercial Leadership Team, you will shape business-wide strategy while building and leading a cross-functional team, and personally developing partnerships with leading global sports brands.

Responsibilities

• Together with your Planning counterpart, you hold commercial and strategic ownership of the Sports division in a fast-paced e-commerce, members-only environment, accountable for the delivery of financial targets across revenue, margin, sell-through, and for the investment decisions that underpin them.
• Set the long-term vision and multi-year strategy for the Sports division, defining where and how to invest for growth and shaping priorities that influence the wider agenda across the business.
• Set the commercial and buying framework across global and local sports brands, empowering the team to execute seasonal and in-season strategy while balancing commercial performance, consumer demand, product innovation, and brand relevance within an off-price e-commerce model.
• Own and optimize the Sports assortment architecture using performance data, customer insights, market trends, and category intelligence to maximize commercial impact and customer acquisition.
• Build and expand strategic relationships with leading sports brands, personally sponsoring the most strategic global partnerships at executive level and steering complex, high-stakes negotiations that shape long-term supply, commercial terms, and exclusivity.
• Drive commercial performance through deep analysis of key e-commerce KPIs, including sell-through, conversion, stock availability, pricing architecture, inventory productivity, and category performance.
• Monitor market trends, consumer behavior, sports participation trends, and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities and ensure the assortment remains relevant, differentiated, and commercially successful.
• Collaborate closely with Planning, Trading, Marketing, CRM, and Supply Chain teams to ensure seamless execution of the commercial strategy across all digital touchpoints, ensuring clear communication of performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Build, lead, and develop a high performing team, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and commercial excellence, and building the leadership bench and succession pipeline for the Sports division.
• Represent the Sports division at executive level, communicating strategy, performance, risks, and investment cases, and contributing to enterprise-wide commercial decision-making.