(USA) Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management - Sporting Goods

Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management - Sporting Goods

Multiple locations Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary...

Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer services. As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for driving strategy and delivering growth in strategic priority categories. You'll partner with senior executives and leaders across the organization to deliver on the strategy while managing Strategic Account Managers working with them to build their accounts through strategic account planning, performance analysis, inventory insights, exclusive deals, events, and new product launches. If being in the front seat of driving a business is exciting, this is the role for you! This role would be on the Marketplace team. It requires someone who is comfortable working with all levels and teams within the organization, including executive leadership. Experience managing a team is a must. Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to build strategic roadmaps and business plans is critical.

What You'll Do...

You'll make an impact by:

• Developing an assortment strategy and management for a specific category or department; follows processes and procedures for managing assortment quality; assists with the development of lists of assortment needs for a department or category; develops plans to address needs; records information used to assess assortment performance and opportunities.
• Overseeing business performance: Lead annual and quarterly business planning and performance tracking for category, as well as direct reports managed sellers. Conduct deep dive analysis on issues effecting category business performance and implement corrective actions. Drive performance against P;L levers including gross merchandise value (GMV) and contribution profit.
• Being a trusted advisor: Develop strong and trusting relationships with partners working across the organization to solve issues, address pain points and implement growth initiatives. Employ a one team approach to accomplish the goals of the business and drive negotiations from a win-win perspective that establishes credibility and trust with our partners and delivers consistently improved performance.
• Guide direct reports on delivering growth for managed sellers - optimizing offer quality to maximize search optimization and discoverability across the platform, driving adoption of seller services, and developing strategic marketing plans that drive incremental traffic and GMV. Lean in as needed with sellers directly.
• Working cross-functionally: Collaborate with Omni Merchant team, Product Management, Strategy, Operations, Site and Marketing to deliver best-in-class customer and seller experiences.
• Building a team: Managing a team of strategic account manager(s); developing their skills and acting as a mentor.

Preferred Qualifications...

• 7+ years experience in Business Management, Omni-Channel Category Merchandising, Account Management, digital commerce or a related area. E-Commerce experience strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Strong negotiation, interpersonal and influential skills.
• Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency.

Primary Location...

1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.