Remote Sample Management Jobs in Arkansas (NOW HIRING)

Description

Our most important asset is our people. Who we are, what we do, how we do it and why we are passionate are all centerpieces of why we succeed.

We are proud to be recognized:

• Among America’s Best Midsize Employers by Forbes in 2021, 2022 and 2024
• As a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for four consecutive years (2021-2025)

This role will be remote-based in Bentonville, AR. Candidates must be available to go to Walmart Headquarters as needed.

Role Summary

As the Sales Operations Project Manager, you will serve as the operational backbone for our sales and field execution teams. This role will help keep key sales projects moving across a variety of customer opportunities, including modular placement, promotional placement, customer follow-ups, meeting coordination, sample management, and competitive field intelligence.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, responsive, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once. This person will play a critical role in ensuring projects stay on track, customer needs are met quickly and accurately, and internal teams have the information they need to make strong business decisions.

Experience working with Walmart, including familiarity with Walmart tools, portals, and ways of working, is highly preferred.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage day-to-day project tracking across customer opportunities, sales initiatives, modular resets, promotional placements, and key follow-ups.
• Coordinate timelines, deliverables, meeting notes, action items, and internal follow-up across sales, marketing, logistics, and other cross-functional teams.
• Build and maintain project trackers, status updates, deadline calendars, dashboards, and organized documentation to keep workstreams on track.
• Serve as a central point of contact for internal coordination, ensuring customer and retailer requests are handled quickly, accurately, and professionally.
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, delays, or outstanding information and follow up with the appropriate team members before issues escalate.
• Support customer-facing deliverables, including meeting preparation, line review materials, presentation support, digital or physical materials, and interaction tracking.
• Manage product sample requests, inventory logs, delivery coordination, timelines, and documentation tied to sell-in meetings, retailer reviews, and new item submissions.
• Support modular recap management by collecting, consolidating, validating, and organizing execution data from internal teams.
• Conduct store visits across key retailers to assess in-store execution and gather competitive insights, including shelf photos, pricing activity, promotional activity, displays, assortment, and competitive products.
• Maintain organized records of customer interactions, modular updates, sample activity, store findings, action items, and competitive intelligence.
• Use digital tools, including AI where appropriate, to improve efficiency, documentation, meeting recaps, communication, and workflow management.

What You Bring to the Team

• Experience in sales operations, retail project management, customer operations, category support, field execution, or a related role.
• Walmart experience is highly preferred, including familiarity with Walmart Retail Link, Scintilla, Item 360, or related supplier-facing tools.
• Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience building and maintaining trackers, timelines, project plans, status reports, and dashboards.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with sales data, POS reports, recap spreadsheets, and operational reporting.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and ability to prepare clear, polished materials for internal and customer-facing use.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing shared drives, document repositories, and collaboration tools such as SharePoint or Google Drive.
• Openness to using AI tools to improve efficiency, including drafting recaps, summarizing data, and automating routine communication.
• Ability to quickly learn new tools, systems, and digital platforms.

The hiring range for this position in in Bentonville is $75,000 - $90,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills and experience, among other factors. An annual incentive may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. An overview of our benefits offering is available here: Fellowes Benefits Overview.

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