Job Description:
The Sales Director, Walmart is responsible for leading a sales team to deliver all assigned business objectives, including gross and net sales, market share, and other customer and Mars performance KPIs. This role develops and executes a multi-year customer strategy and people strategy designed to drive sustainable business growth and long-term success.
In addition, the Sales Director manages and develops a team of associates, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing culture. The role also serves as the primary relationship owner with customer merchant teams, while partnering closely with internal stakeholders to align priorities, influence decision-making, and ensure successful delivery of business objectives.
Must-Have Qualifications:
• 10+ years of sales/category/analytics/marketing/people leadership experience within CPG industry and advanced knowledge of trade management
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative partnerships with retail customers and internal business stakeholders
• Direct selling and category management experience across retailers, illustrating ability to develop and execute multi-year growth strategy
• Strong analytic skills and ability to distill complex data into simple stories
• Proven people leader and builder of teams
Key responsibilities:
• Manage +$50M budgets across Trade, Marketing, Retail Media, Logistics, and Non-Working to deliver mutually profitable business plans > $500M in gross sales.
• Develop robust development and objective plans, drive engagement and ensure team is clear on priorities and objectives across the business.
• Represent customer on Walmart leadership team to establish goals and priorities, and to provide strategic direction for the total business.
• Set strategic vision and manage the sales team to deliver established goals and priorities.
• Lead the team in development and communication of sales initiatives and related action plans that deliver account objectives – including trade/customer P&L management, promotional activity and effectiveness, customer management and negotiation, and internal communications.
• Lead the team to create and deliver best practice presentations which not only attain customer objectives but provide future opportunities as well.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration within MPN and with customers to guide best in class collaboration across supply chain, customer service, category management, and marketing.
• Assist in MPN-wide initiatives and to deliver enterprise objectives and portfolio goals.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of sales, category, analytics, marketing, or people leadership experience within the CPG industry
- Advanced knowledge of trade management
- Experience building collaborative partnerships with retail customers and internal business stakeholders
- Direct selling and category management experience across retailers
- Ability to develop and execute multi-year growth strategies
- Strong analytical skills and ability to distill complex data into simple stories
- Proven people leadership and team-building experience
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
