Senior Partner, Ad Partner Management, Walmart Connect

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About Walmart Connect

At Walmart, we enable the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. As primary stewards of our brand promise, “Save Money. Live Better,” we partner with some of the most experienced people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us. We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable – and we have Walmart’s sales data to prove it. Walmart Connect wins when suppliers invest in digital media to achieve growth; Walmart and our supplier partners win when your digital expertise helps sell more goods online and offline. Growth in our digital advertising business is important to Walmart’s overall growth strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, high-visibility team within the largest company in the world. Walmart Connect is looking for a Sr. Partner, Ad Partner Management to achieve growth, and adoption of the Advertising API offerings.  Specifically, we are looking for a Partner Development Manager to lead our Creative strategy with API integrators, while guiding growth, and adoption of the Advertising API offerings. The Partner Development Manager will manage a group of high impact partners with a goal of amplifying revenue and driving new business. You will work cross-functionally with global partners to define ways of working, strategy and approach, and identify products and experiences that will help WMC scale and acquire net-new customers through our API partner program.

What you'll do:

• Develop creative growth strategy and approach for advertising partners

• Manage and grow relationship with portfolio of API Partners

• Build joint business planning and track API partner progress to goals

• Collaborate with API partners to develop and execute go to market plans through joint PR, marketing, co-selling, developer relations enablement and materials to hit revenue goals

• Collect feedback from partners to help inform and prioritize API product roadmap

• Support technical API partner manager and API support manager to help API partner manage and grow their business on Walmart

• Work cross-functionally with Product, Strategy, Legal, Engineering, Marketing, and

• Operations to identify product and program enhancements that will drive incremental revenue for Walmart

• Lead Partner outreach initiatives to create a successful joint business and technical integration

• Ensure WMC sales teams with content, training, and accelerators on specific Partner solutions that can help accelerate deals or expand opportunities

  Identify, own, and drive innovative opportunities and programs to improve efficiency and scale internally and externally

• Guide API partner business infrastructure and reporting initiatives

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years of experience, preferably with a successful track record of managing business relationships and cross-functional projects

• Experience owning or developing a new, fast-paced initiative

• Experience working cross-functionally, managing initiatives at scale

• Experience working in the digital creative and/or ecommerce space

• Proven experience delivering partnership initiatives, having worked in sales, product, business development, partnership, with an emphasis on automated advertising experiences.

• Track record of driving programs to improve operational excellence

• Experience in identifying innovative solutions on behalf of customers

• Analytical experience with experience diagnosing problems and crafting solutions but also introduc