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

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

2d•$90,000 - $234,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. This role 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. You are seller obsessed and relationship driven. You're a visionary always looking for ways to distinguish from the competition. You thrive in constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environments. You're results-oriented with a proven track record of leadership and taking ownership to produce exceptional results. You build trust quickly and lead by influence with the ability to translate to varied audiences. You believe in and prioritize the collective success of the team and are quick to jump in, help, mentor, and coach your fellow team members. You are creative and resilient always looking for new ways to approach problems and drive business performance. You enjoy the learning journey and like working with your manager and partners to continue to add to your tool box.

Requirements

Experience managing a team is a must.
Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to build strategic roadmaps and business plans is critical.
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.
Respect the Individual Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a highperforming team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members
Respect the Individual Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
Respect the Individual Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and crossfunctionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action
Act with Integrity Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
Act with Integrity Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
Act with Integrity Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble selfaware honest and transparent
Serve our Customers and Members Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers
Serve our Customers and Members Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy
Strive for Excellence Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risktaking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
Strive for Excellence Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption expense reimbursement
Surrogacy expense reimbursement
PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates): programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.