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Amazon is launching Amazon Supply Chain Services, further expanding its role as an infrastructure provider. The offer for sellers includes freight, distribution, fulfilment and parcel delivery - also across channels outside the Amazon platform.
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Senior Specialist Marketplaces Tom Tailor
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Head of Product Comfort & Wellbeing Bosch Home & Comfort Group
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Rossella Furnari has stepped up at Leroy Merlin, now leading as Marketplace Team Leader, taking on greater responsibility across marketplace operations. Jonny Hofberger has been Managing Director at GTK VATpilot GmbH since March. Pia Nolte left fashionette to join Douglas as a Director Partner Program. Johannes von Roth-Bandick has left TB International to step into a top leadership role as...

Dr. Kai-Ulrich Deissner, CEO of CECONOMY AG / MediaMarktSaturn, will hand over the role of CEO during the course of 2026 for personal reasons. His successor Remko Rijnders will assume the role of CEO on July 1. René Groll, previously Head of E-Commerce and Chief Digital Officer at Alberts, is joining Front Row German on May 1, where he will...

Inka Buschmann has moved up the ranks in Ceceba’s E-Commerce team and is now Head of Online Wholesale and Marketplaces. Ludwig Schirmer, who led Devely’s Digital Unit up to last March, has returned to Europe after a few months in Dubai, and now joins DIY D2C brand Miss Pompadour as new Head of International Growth. Valentin Lennartz has left Kaufland...
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