Senior Analyst, Strategic Account Management - Entertainment, Toys, & Seasonal

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR +1

This role is for a Senior Analyst, Strategic Account Management within Walmart's Marketplace business, focusing on growing seller accounts in specific business areas like Entertainment, Toys, and Seasonal. The position involves strategic account planning, performance analysis, providing inventory insights, and developing exclusive deals and launch plans to help sellers grow on the platform. It requires strong analytical, strategic, and relationship-building skills, with a focus on driving seller success and optimizing offer quality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Managing seller accounts: Serve as a strategic consultant/account manager accountable for driving business growth across a portfolio of Growth sellers. Develop strategies with sellers to expand selection, improve offer quality and drive operational improvements across their business.
  2. Being a trusted advisor: Develop strong and trusting relationships with partners. Serve as the account quarterback 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.
  3. Optimizing offer quality: Work directly with sellers to optimize their listings including PDP content, ratings and reviews, ship speed and price competitiveness to maximize search optimization and discoverability across the platform.
  4. Driving adoption of seller services: Teach sellers how to be more successful across the Walmart platform and maximize awareness and adoption of seller growth initiatives including Walmart Fulfilment Services (WFS), Walmart Connect, and more.
  5. Developing marketing plans: Develop seller marketing plans - including events, site placements and promotions - that drive incremental traffic and GMV.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in Marketing, Information Technology, Business Management or a related field
  • 2-3 Years experience in Account Management, e-Commerce, or Merchandising
  • 2-3 Years of experience working with sellers/suppliers/vendors, etc.
  • Strong Excel experience
  • Strategic mindset and ability to prioritize tasks
  • Detail-oriented with a bias for action and a collaborative team player
  • Results-driven with a proactive approach to problem-solving and goal achievement

Nice to have

  • Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area.
  • E-Commerce experience preferred.
  • Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
  • Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency.
  • You’re seller obsessed and relationship driven.
  • 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 enjoy the learning journey and like working with your manager and partners to continue to add to your toolbox.

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic account planning
  • performance analysis
  • inventory insights
  • exclusive deals
  • new product launches
  • Strong Excel experience
  • Strategic mindset
  • Detail-oriented
  • bias for action
  • Results-driven
  • proactive approach to problem-solving
  • goal achievement
  • prioritizing
  • scheduling
  • time management
  • meeting deadlines
  • sense of urgency
  • seller obsessed
  • relationship driven
  • proven track record of leadership
  • taking ownership
  • produce exceptional results
  • build trust quickly
  • lead by influence
  • translate to varied audiences
  • learning journey
  • working with your manager and partners
  • add to your toolbox
  • Autonomous Work
  • limited manager oversight