Senior Partner, Advertising Sales, Walmart Connect - Home Team

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Hoboken, NJ

This role is for a Senior Partner in Advertising Sales at Walmart Connect, focusing on the Home team. The primary responsibility is to drive digital and omni revenue by managing key enterprise accounts, developing strategic marketing relationships, and closing sales opportunities. The role requires strong consultative sales, negotiation, and client service skills, with a focus on developing and executing marketing strategies to meet supplier goals and exceed sales quotas. It involves creating and presenting needs-based solutions, managing account plans, and acting as an industry thought leader in creative and digital advertising.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and broaden high-level collaborative relationships, understand and identify client contacts that manage multiple budgets (brand, shopper, DR, video, etc.), and close large JBPs with Fortune 500 marketers
  2. Create and present needs-based solutions and high-quality objective based opportunities to RFPs
  3. Reach and exceed sales quotas while contributing to overall vertical and team goals
  4. Develop and actively manage short and long-term account plans based on client brand and performance marketing objectives
  5. Partner with teammates and cross-functional partners to structure and execute operational and strategic initiatives – developing account plans, synthesizing market related data, leading client analyses and defining the overall business approach to Walmart Connect's success with digitally focused businesses

Skills

Required

  • Consultative sales
  • Negotiation
  • Client service
  • Sales strategy
  • Account management
  • RFP response
  • Sales quota achievement
  • Market analysis
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Pipeline management
  • Presentation skills
  • Industry knowledge
  • Market trend analysis
  • Product/technology understanding
  • Executive presence

Nice to have

  • Brand advertising experience
  • Media sales experience
  • Customer acquisition and growth experience
  • Search advertising experience
  • Mobile advertising experience
  • Online sales experience
  • Shopper marketing sales experience
  • eCommerce sales experience
  • Retail advertising sales experience
  • Client direct account management experience
  • Strategic advisor experience with C-Level clients
  • Consultative selling track record
  • Understanding of Walmart consumer behavior
  • Analytical skills
  • Excel skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Operational rigor
  • Methodology application
  • Technology utilization for execution/assessment/explanation
  • Startup environment experience
  • Online advertising environment experience

What the JD emphasized

  • proven understanding of both online and traditional marketing
  • proven ability to reach and influence executive level customers
  • negotiate and optimize complex sales opportunities
  • close new business
  • drive revenue
  • manage between 2-5 key Enterprise accounts
  • drive digital and omni revenue
  • drive marketing strategy
  • roll up their sleeves and execute the tactics
  • exceptional consultative sales
  • coaching
  • client service skills
  • willingness to experiment
  • thrive in a dynamic, team-focused environment
  • passion for helping others achieve results
  • high-level collaborative relationships
  • client contacts that manage multiple budgets
  • close large JBPs with Fortune 500 marketers
  • needs-based solutions
  • high-quality objective based opportunities to RFPs
  • Reach and exceed sales quotas
  • contributing to overall vertical and team goals
  • Develop and actively manage short and long-term account plans
  • client brand and performance marketing objectives
  • Partner with teammates and cross-functional partners
  • structure and execute operational and strategic initiatives
  • synthesizing market related data
  • leading client analyses
  • defining the overall business approach
  • Penetrate organizations to drive alignment and influence executive and day-to-day contacts
  • execute against account plan
  • Collaborate with measurement partners
  • create learning agenda
  • help clients measure the impact of Walmart Connect's measurement solutions
  • Accurately and effectively manage sales pipeline
  • prioritize business opportunities and resources
  • Serve as an industry thought leader
  • creative and digital advertising
  • drive creative and client success
  • leveraging Walmart Connect’s ongoing product and technology developments
  • Create and deliver consultative sales presentations
  • industry knowledge
  • market trends
  • Walmart Connect marketing solutions
  • Exhibit executive presence and confidence
  • presenting Walmart Connect to CEOs and CMOs
  • Travel as required