At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

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Overview

About the Role

As we continue our fast growth, we are looking to add to our New Retail Partnerships team. We are hiring a Retail Partnerships Manager to persistently explore, uncover and develop opportunities for the Instacart platform with select retailers. In this role, you will have responsibilities including, but not limited to, finding creative ways to engage strategic grocery and retail partners, articulating compelling solutions aligning with business needs, and managing relationships (external and internal stakeholders) as a trusted advisor, in order to solidify partnerships.

About the Team

The New Retail Partnerships Team is dedicated to expanding the unique selection of our grocery platform, making shopping effortless and convenient for everyone, forever changing the way people feed themselves, support their households and spend time with their loved ones.

About the Job

Client-facing sales and relationship management role within the technology industry for Grocery and Retail Verticals to have them join IC Marketplace and adopt Enterprise Solutions
Establish a deep understanding of Instacart's business operations and suite of solutions, including internal processes and competitive context to align solutions to business needs
Full funnel pipeline management including prospecting and tailored outreach
Cultivate sales relationship with prospective clients from executive suite, departmental managers to day-to-day SMEs that lead to platform and solution adoption
Sell full suite of solutions holistically to optimize client(s) business and maximize impact
Negotiate terms, conditions and contractual agreements
Work with internal cross-functional partner teams on product offering and launches
Establish best in class processes to help streamline the team’s operations and add value to retailer relationships
Some Travel required

About You

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years previous experience
Persuasive presenter with strong negotiation skills
Demonstrates technical sales skills, strong storytelling, business acumen
Comfort with ambiguity and a rapidly evolving business landscape
Creative and structured problem-solver, develops pathways to open opportunities, engage clients and accelerate deals
Solid stakeholder management skills, both internally and externally
Responds quickly and effectively to build momentum and drive action
Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex issues
Ability to manage across functions and present to leadership
Positive, energetic, and influential relationship builder
Some travel required

Preferred Qualifications

MBA preferred, but not required
Enterprise, Saas Selling experience
Experience in business development of marketplace ecosystem

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