Senior Manager, Advertising Sales - WM Connect - Food

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart Connect’s Sales Leadership team is seeking an experienced Team Lead to help scale and grow Food supplier/advertiser partnerships to both Walmart Connect and Walmart. This seasoned sales executive will own the account strategy, execution and revenue growth from one key advertiser or a number of advertisers within a specific Food Vertical, while also leading and developing a team of salespeople, account managers and campaign managers to scale their business.

The ideal candidate will be just as comfortable diving into campaign results with their operational partners as they are presenting customer insights trends and strategic marketing plans to CMO’s and Chief Sales Officers. They will be students of their clients’ business(es), our Walmart ecosystem and how we can better serve our Customers. They will bring a solution-oriented mindset every day to build and grow world class partnerships that deliver significant business growth for their clients’ business(es) and Walmart. They understand how to vertically go deep within a marketer’s organization while also navigating Walmart’s teams. The candidate will have managed and scaled businesses in the past and has the capability to manage and lead a small but high-performing team. Ideal candidates will have consistent management experience as well as extensive experience selling or buying cross-network online marketing solutions such as programmatic, direct response, search, branding, integrated sponsorships, and display or video advertising. Additionally, the candidate will have experience working within a matrix organization and leading, coaching and influencing people. Candidates must have strong consultative sales skills with C-suite leaders, a collaborative and innovative spirit and be extremely comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for driving results while strategically building a the business for the future

• Play a critical role in building, inspiring, training and managing a talented, motivated, highly consultative sales and services team

• Understand our client's businesses and develop appropriate solutions to meet their needs

• Deliver the highest level of customer service and present WMC’s solutions in a compelling, positive and professional way Be seen as an industry leader in NYC, Chicago and/or San Francisco

• Work collaboratively with cross functional teams to drive revenue growth with new and existing customers, be a point of escalation for any potential issues

• Execute projects involving quantitative analysis, industry research and strategy development

• Consult with Product Marketing to help shape product development in support of client needs in the region

• Evangelize WMC with agencies, clients and at targeted events, conferences and media opportunities and champion WMC product releases internally and externally

• Strong ability to forecast and efficiently allocate resources to drive profitable business results

Qualifications:

• 3+ years hands on experience of building and capability to manage high performing teams.

• Experience driving revenue growth with emerging opportunities and established partnerships

• Strong understanding of the advertising technology and data/performance measurement trends

• Skilled storyteller with experience communicating the benefit of marketi