Strategic Account Manager

Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Walmart Data Ventures is focused on productizing Walmart's rich data assets to better serve customers and provide data products that deliver actionable, customer-centric insights to help merchants and brands make better business decisions.
We are hiring talent across our Account Management Teams to help drive business growth by developing and maintaining business relationships; both internally with Walmart Merchandising, as well as externally with our supplier subscribers.
The ideal candidate will be someone that can understand and manage mutual value propositions, risks, and benefits, while supporting engagement and dialogue with stakeholders to mitigate risks, resolve issues, and realize value proposition and subsequent business objectives with all our products. This individual must have the ability to get things done through influencing and persuading people across a wide range of teams within Walmart and with external counterparties.
We are looking for someone with a passion for leveraging data to identify insights that can positively impact Walmart customer experience, supplier / brand performance to drive customer and category growth through tactics and strategies across omni channels.
You'll be successful in this role if:

• You have an analytic skill set and technical aptitude with an ability to simplify complex datasets for customers.
• You drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs
• You are customer focused with an ability to understand, communicate and manage mutual value propositions, risks, and benefits
• You are a strategic thinker, can look at the long term and are comfortable making tough decisions.
• You have a track record of coming up with inventive solutions for our biggest problems and opportunities.

You'll make an impact by:

• Concurrently managing multiple relationships expeditiously and efficiently.
• Orchestrating collaborative work plans with 3rd party consultants, merchants, operations and suppliers to recognize supplier AND Walmart value and ROI from investment with products
• Capturing and packaging success stories, case studies and other examples of utilization and implementation of insights derived from products
• Providing VOC to product team with a supplier and merchant mindset
• Building and managing cross-functional relationships with key partners within Walmart that power the business forward.

In this role you may also:

• Identify, nurture, close and renew key partnership or client opportunities in a B2B setting; own full lifecycle of supplier partner engagement, deal-making, and implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, or related field
• OR 2 years' experience in business development, market development, product development,
  or related area.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working for 3rd party data / insights supplier (Nielsen, IRI, Kantar, 84.51, dunnhumby etc.)
• Experience working as a merchant in analytics, insight or operations with Walmart or other national retailers
• Experience working with Retail Link, SQL, and/or Alteryx.

About Data Ventures:
Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart's data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we're seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment.
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The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, business, marketing and sales, healthcare, or related area.
Option 2: 2 years' experience in business management, marketing and sales, healthcare, omni channel merchandising, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Experience in sales.
Primary Location...
702 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America