Customer Development Director - Walmart

Customer Development Director - Walmart (Mid-West)

The Customer Development Director - Walmart possesses a deep knowledge of the retailer, the competition, and the marketplace. This position will serve as the "go-to" person by the retailer's leadership team for best practices, innovation, and engagementwhile maintaining a bias for growth by driving sales and constantly exploring additional opportunities for incremental revenue and margin results. The Customer Development Director II is deeply connected with CCCI's field operations and leadership teams to ensure that business plans are efficiently executed as agreed upon.

• Develop, negotiate, and maintaina strategic partnership status with the customer to ensure joint business plans are achieved
• Establishand leadcross-functional relationships with field operations, product supply, marketing, and revenue generation management to ensure alignment to respective strategic objectives
• Coach, teach, and train (instructs) the field operations teams on alignment to customers sales plans, best practices, and expectations
• Create, maintain, and updatecritical sales correspondence to ensure the operations teams have the most up to date execution plans for assigned customer
• Cultivate, sustainand maintain ongoing relationships and attends meetings, as needed with key external business partners (NRS, brand, bottler, and other relevant partners) to drive incremental growth to objectives
• Collaboratewith Revenue Generation colleague to compile and report key business results to CCCI's Sr. Leadership team
• Analyzedata to determine opportunities and implement tactics to reverse or sustain trends
• Developand executesales programs and conduct post-analysis reviews, to gain an understanding of the effectiveness
• Makeadjustments as needed to sustain or reverse trends

• Advanced ability to develop, negotiate and execute complex and strategic joint business plans with the assigned customer
• Strong ability to quickly bond and rapport to achieve a strategic partnership status throughout customers organization
• Must have strong negotiation and persuasion skills
• Responsive customer service skills with a proactive mindset
• Strong organizational management skills required with the ability to collaborate with all facets of the business including field operations, marketing, product supply, revenue generation management, and the National Retail Sales Team
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with other department leaders to accomplish goals and objectives
• Advanced analytical and critical thinking skills preferred
• Excellent organizational, time management, attention to detail, and team-building skills are required
• Ability to work independently
• Strong leadership, coaching, and presentation abilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required
• Ability to prioritize multiple assignments with time-sensitive and critical deadlines
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Adept in handling ambiguity
• Computer proficiency in MS Office particularly MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

• Bachelor's degree four (4) years
• Knowledge acquired through five (5) to seven (7) years of relevantwork experience

• Bachelors in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Liberal Arts, Sociology, or Psychology

• Office Environment
• This position will support the Mid-West Market Unit.