You're a go-getter with strong (consumer product) account management and selling skills. You're an expert at working with Walmart and no one knows them better than you! You know how to develop/ manage relationships and believe in being memorable. You know what it takes to collaborate effectively between buyers, analysts & brands, ensuring flawless program execution. You live and breathe retail and are extremely detailed orientated.
The Work:
- Proactively driving brand partners' business through the identification and management of strategic levers.
- Leading complex brands through the design and execution of efficient and productive new processes to manage and grow the business.
- Creating, planning, managing, and executing productive seasonal and promotional plans.
- Act as a liaison between our brand partners and Walmart ensuring first class communication.
- Manage all skus and lead forecasting, inventory flow and reporting efforts.
- Pull and analyze weekly sales data and communicate insights and trends.
- On behalf of the brand partner, work with your Sales Manager on executing the multi-channel strategy.
- Comp shopping and competitive analysis.
- Lead all new vendor set-up on behalf of our brand partners.
- Working with Sales Managers and creative team to build merchandising solutions for our vendor partners.
- Ensure delivery of creative assets to vendors and/or Walmart.
- Coordinate with third party vendors: store signage, merchandising, research and in-store training etc.
- Assist the brand in managing the supply chain process.
- Coordinate samples requests and delivery.
- Constantly analyze brand performance and suggest/execute ways to improve