Senior Account Manager, Northwest Arkansas

Maya Verdant LLC; Atkins (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Maya Verdant LLC in Arkansas seeks a senior Partnerships Manager to own the market's retailer and brand programs. You will set the sequence of outreach, decide which instrument to use with each counterparty, and manage every account until the market is ready to split.

You will work on the partnerships team with retailers and brands that households already shop, building joint business plans and overseeing budgets, calendars, and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in consumer-goods customer teams or retail partnerships.
• Experience with both retailer and manufacturer programs.
• Proven fund accountability: accruals, commitments, spend, reconciliation.
• Ability to run a category review and promotional P&L.
• Judgment under conflict between chain and brand.

Responsibilities

• Lead joint business plans with major retailers in your market.
• Manage category, shopper marketing, and retail media relationships.
• Oversee retailer calendars, line reviews, resets, and media flights.
• Develop and manage brand partnerships funded from shopper or media budgets.
• Ensure spend control, period close, and proof of performance.
• Provide quarterly business reviews for brand leadership.
• Maintain consistent messaging across retailer and brand accounts in the market.
• Prioritize live tests with signed budgets over broad campus outreach.
• Forecast revenue, fund position, and assess risk for the market.
• Represent Maya at local industry events with signed accounts.

Skills

Retail partnerships

Brand partnerships

Sales strategy

Forecasting

Budget management

Job description

Role

You cover both doors in your market: retailers and consumer brands. You hold the whole market so Maya never sends two people into the same city with competing stories. You set the sequence, who to call and with which instrument, and you carry every account there until the book is large enough to split.

This role is on the partnerships team. You work with the retailers and brands those households already shop.

Responsibilities

Retail book

• Joint business plans with the grocery, mass, club, convenience and fuel retailers in your market
• Category, shopper marketing, fuel and retail media relationships at each one
• The retailer operating calendar: line reviews, resets, circulars and media flights
• Household programs a chain can approve without treating Maya as a supplier on its deal sheet

Brand book

• Brand partnerships funded from shopper, trade or retail-media budgets
• Fund control through period close: accrued, committed, spent, reconciled, nothing stranded
• Prior approval and spend authority secured before a flight, with proof of performance on verified household outcomes after it
• Analysis before and after each flight, and quarterly business reviews for brand leadership

Across both

• Keep one story in the market. A retailer meeting and a brand meeting in the same city must not contradict each other
• Decide which instrument belongs to which counterparty. Retailer-funded programs and brand-funded programs are not interchangeable
• Prioritise: a live test with a signed budget beats a courtesy tour of every campus in town
• Coach or split the book when a specialist retail or brand account manager is added to your market
• Forecast revenue, fund position and capacity for the market, and escalated legal, exclusivity and overspend risk
• Represent Maya at local industry events without implying accounts that are not signed

Requirements

• 7+ years in consumer-goods customer teams, retail partnerships or a national sales or shopper agency, with direct time on both a major chain and a manufacturer
• You have closed programs on each side: a retailer joint business plan and a brand-funded flight
• You have carried fund accountability for a book: accrued, committed, spent, reconciled, with no period-end surprise
• You can run a category review in the morning and a promotional P&L in the afternoon
• Judgment under conflict: when a chain and a brand in your market want opposite things, you do not promise both

Nice to have

• People leadership of one or two account managers
• Fuel and grocery experience in the same market
• You have carried several unrelated accounts in one market at the same time