(can) Manager, Account Management - Scintilla

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Mississauga, ON

This role manages successful vendor/advertiser relationships by understanding clients’ businesses, managing expectations, and ensuring campaign strategies meet client needs. It develops, executes, and improves action plans, provides expert advice, and builds relationships with key stakeholders. The role also defines VIP customer strategies, trains agents, prioritizes requests, and uses data to adjust strategies. Additionally, it identifies tools and processes to optimize business development and agent management, and builds plans for reducing attrition by collaborating with marketing and analyzing data.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages successful vendor/advertiser relationships by understanding clients’ businesses, managing expectations, and ensuring campaign strategies meet client needs.
  2. Demonstrates expertise in developing, executing, and improving action plans.
  3. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships with key stakeholders, identifying business needs, and carrying out necessary processes.
  4. Develops, implements, iterates, and maintains VIP customer strategies, defining VIP customers, training agents, and prioritizing requests.
  5. Builds and executes plans for reducing attrition by collaborating with marketing to identify issues, recognizing patterns that inform business decisions, developing reports, and suggesting improvements to dashboards and metrics.

Skills

Required

  • Strong experience interfacing with buyers, category managers, and merchandising teams.
  • Ability to understand and anticipate buyer needs, present persuasive business cases, and influence assortment decisions.
  • Skilled in nurturing long-term partnerships, resolving conflicts, and driving customer satisfaction.
  • Knowledge of retail KPIs, including sales, margin, turns, inventory health, and sell-through.
  • Ability to analyze and interpret data to make data-driven merchandising decisions.
  • Proven ability to influence
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to work independently and manage multiple accounts or categories.
  • Adaptable, resourceful, and highly collaborative across departments

Nice to have

  • Experience working with large-scale retailers or directly within a retail organization is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with retail planning cycles, in-store execution, planogram optimization, and seasonality impacts.