Key Account Manager - Walmart

Key Account Manager - Walmart

Location:

Remote Bentonville, AR

Salary Range: $,040 per year

Job type:
Full-time

The Key Account Manager – Walmart is responsible for leading strategic account growth, program execution alignment, and customer relationship management for one of Professional Services & Solutions most important national retail accounts. This role is designed to help convert early success into a scalable, repeatable national program by aligning customer needs with the PSS delivery model across design, project management, installation, service, and lifecycle support.

The position serves as the commercial leader for the Walmart account, coordinating internal teams, channel partners, and customer stakeholders to drive revenue growth, operational consistency, and long-term account expansion.

This position reports to the National Sales Director and is part of a dedicated Key Account Team responsible for supporting strategic national customers through coordinated sales, project, service, and operational alignment.

• Own the overall commercial relationship for the Walmart account across national, regional, and site-level stakeholders.
• Lead account planning and growth strategy for Walmart, with focus on repeatable multi-site deployment opportunities, remodels, rollouts, retrofits, inspections, and service programs.
• Convert prototype and early-program success into a scalable national account model with consistent commercial and operational execution.
• Coordinate closely with project management, CAD/design, field engineering, service operations, and affiliate/service partners to ensure customer requirements are translated into executable plans.
• Drive pipeline development, opportunity qualification, forecasting, pricing alignment, proposal strategy, and contract support for Walmart opportunities.
• Support standardized rollout models for fire alarm, life safety, inspection, service, and related systems within the Walmart environment.
• Act as the voice of the customer internally, ensuring Walmart requirements, escalation points, operating constraints, and service expectations are understood and addressed.
• Partner with Edwards and Kidde channels, dealer partners, and internal leadership to improve pull-through, coverage, and execution consistency.
• Help define and refine customer-facing value propositions, reporting expectations, and lifecycle service attachment strategies for the account.
• Maintain disciplined communication with internal and external stakeholders regarding milestone status, risks, issue escalation, and growth opportunities.
• Support executive account reviews and present account strategy, risks, wins, and next-step recommendations to leadership.

• Growth in Walmart pipeline, bookings, and secured program opportunities.
• Expansion from prototype and pilot work into repeatable national deployment.
• Increased attachment of downstream services including project management, installation, inspection, and service.
• Improved customer confidence, communication cadence, and issue resolution.
• Better alignment between customer requirements and internal delivery execution.
• Strong forecast discipline, executive visibility, and account planning maturity.

• High School Diploma

• 7+ years of experience in key account management, national accounts, strategic sales, or enterprise account leadership

• Bachelor’s degree

• Experience managing complex multi-site or national accounts with centralized buying and distributed execution
• Strong commercial skills in account planning, pipeline management, proposal development, and executive-level relationship management
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams including sales, project management, design, field…