Retail Account Manager, Portland

Maya Verdant LLC; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maya Verdant LLC in Portland, OR seeks an experienced retail sales professional to build and run annual and quarterly joint business plans with retailers in your market. You will own the fund positions, manage budgets, and ensure programs are financially sound and aligned with retailer approvals.

You will map buying points, present programs in retailer language, coordinate offers, and track calendars. The role requires strong communication, data familiarity, and ability to work with

Qualifications

• 4+ years selling to or managing major grocery/mass/club/convenience chains.
• Owned retailer P&L or customer plan including distribution, promotion and quarterly reviews.
• Managed funded programs from plan through close without overspend.
• Able to lead category reviews and shopper marketing meetings in the same week.
• Familiar with syndicated or retailer-panel data.
• Strong, concise written status updates.

Responsibilities

• Build and run annual and quarterly joint business plans with each retailer in your market.
• Own the fund position across your book: accrued, committed, spent and remaining, reconciled every period.
• Map the buying points that matter: category, replenishment, shopper marketing, fuel, e-commerce and retail media.
• Present programs in retailer language: trip, basket, category growth, shopper mission and proof of performance.
• Secure prior approval and spend authority before a program goes live, and keep the documentation.
• Coordinate how offers reach members who shop that chain, including grocery-attached fuel.
• Hold each retailer's operating calendar: line reviews, circulars, reset windows and media flights.
• Run pre- and post-event analysis on every funded program and carry the result into the next plan.
• Brief Maya's product and member-care teams so what runs matches what the retailer approved.
• Surface conflicts early, including exclusives, store-conditional funds and brand restrictions.
• Maintain the account plan, contact map, fund position and forecast for every account in your market.

Skills

Retail sales experience

P&L ownership

Budget & forecasting

Analytical reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Data familiarity

Written communication

Job description

Role

Responsibilities

• Build and run annual and quarterly joint business plans with each retailer in your market
• Own the fund position across your book: accrued, committed, spent and remaining, reconciled every period with no overspend and no stranded balance
• Map the buying points that matter: category, replenishment, shopper marketing, fuel, e-commerce and retail media
• Present programs in retailer language: trip, basket, category growth, shopper mission and proof of performance
• Secure prior approval and spend authority before a program goes live, and keep the documentation that releases the money
• Coordinate how offers reach members who shop that chain, including grocery-attached fuel where the retailer runs it
• Hold each retailer's operating calendar: line reviews, circulars, reset windows and media flights
• Run pre- and post-event analysis on every funded program and carry the result into the next plan
• Brief Maya's product and member-care teams so what runs matches what the retailer approved
• Surface conflicts early, including exclusives, store-conditional funds and brand restrictions, before a program is sold
• Maintain the account plan, contact map, fund position and forecast for every account in your market

Requirements

• 4+ years selling to or managing a major grocery, mass, club or convenience chain, in-house or at a national sales or shopper agency
• You have owned a retailer P&L or a customer plan: distribution, promotion and a quarterly business review
• You have carried a funded program from plan through period close without an overspend
• You can work a category review and a shopper marketing meeting in the same week
• Syndicated or retailer-panel data is familiar
• Strong written updates. Short, specific, no deck for a status that needs a paragraph

Nice to have

• Fuel, convenience or grocery-pharmacy experience in the same market
• Retail media experience at a major chain's media arm
• Bilingual English and Spanish where that is the working language of the account