Role Overview
Clients hire you to protect their account standing and preserve revenue flow through fast, consistent, and correct customer handling. In Walmart wholesale operations, service isn’t just about being polite—it’s a tool for account survival. Buyers are often other businesses. If you mishandle communication, mismanage returns, or miss policy details, it can lead to chargebacks, cancellations, or even suspended seller privileges. Your job is to defend against that loss while keeping the buyer confident enough to re-order.
This role is not data entry. It’s not reading templates or checking boxes. It’s real-time judgment, with financial and platform consequences tied to your choices. Clients don’t need messengers—they need agents who understand the rules, protect profit, and act with urgency because delay equals disputes, and disputes cost money. Done well, you increase reorder rates and strengthen the account’s longevity. Done wrong, damage stacks fast and recovery is expensive.
Standards You Must Meet
- You must respond to buyers within 24 hours—delays beyond that cause disputes, cancellations, and account risk.
- Every reply must be policy-aligned and financially sound; guessing or “just being nice” leads to chargebacks.
- Clients expect you to handle returns and replacements with clarity, speed, and platform-compliant logic—no vague answers or indecision.
- You’re judged on how well you reduce refund volume, not how fast you issue them—protect margin, don’t auto-refund.
- Escalations should be rare; you’re expected to resolve 90% of tickets on your own, using correct judgment under pressure.
- Mistakes in tone, policy, or timing don’t just hurt feelings—they damage seller performance metrics and reorder trust.
- Clients want buyers to leave confident, not just satisfied—your handling directly impacts their likelihood to repurchase.
- You’re not just representing the store—you’re protecting the business, the account, and the future of the client relationship.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Respond to every buyer message within 24 hours using accurate, policy-compliant communication that prevents repeat contact.
- Process returns and replacements using clear logic that protects margins and avoids platform penalties.
- Resolve “where is my order” and shipment mismatch cases by coordinating data across tracking tools and supplier timelines.
- Prevent over-refunding by offering aligned alternatives that honor platform rules and save revenue.
- De-escalate emotionally charged tickets with message-first replies that maintain trust and calm buyer tension.
- Identify repeat failure points across orders or SKUs and flag them for client review to prevent future disputes.
- Apply Walmart policy with precision in all service decisions to avoid chargebacks, A-to-Z claims, and hidden loss.
- Manage high-risk events like late deliveries or cancellation threats with urgency and defensible documentation.
What You’ll Hand Over
- A daily response log showing all buyer tickets resolved within 24 hours, with platform-compliant replies and zero escalations.
- A return handling summary detailing resolved cases, actions taken, and margin impact on refunds or replacements.
- A weekly dispute tracker identifying high-risk issues, resolutions applied, and flagged trends needing upstream fixes.
- A customer sentiment report listing buyer messages, tone used, and cases resulting in repeat orders or clarified concerns.
- A validated checklist of Walmart policy actions applied in recent ticket decisions to ensure chargeback and suspension defense.
Tools You’ll Need to Use
- Walmart Seller Center – Primary platform for managing orders, tracking customer issues, and handling returns or disputes.
- Google Workspace (Gmail, Sheets, Docs) – Core suite for structured communication, reporting, and collaborative documentation.
- Zendesk or Freshdesk – Ticketing systems for managing customer service queries efficiently across platforms.
- Inventory Lab or similar logistics dashboard – Used to track supplier shipments, monitor stock levels, and flag fulfillment issues.
- ShipStation or EasyShip – Shipping management tools for order fulfillment visibility and tracking escalations.
- TrackingMore or AfterShip – Carrier tracking tools to quickly resolve delivery disputes and provide accurate updates.
- Microsoft Excel – Essential for detailed report creation, order reconciliation, and data-driven customer insights.
Why Work Smarter
If you cannot automate basic routines like order updates, tracking uploads, or account alerts, the client is paying for hours that should not exist. That’s not sustainable. No one expects every VA to be a developer, but every competent specialist in this market must understand what workflows can be automated, and how to work with those who can do it.
At OES, we don’t treat automation as optional knowledge—it’s the new baseline. The market already expects it, whether stated or not. We set this as our standard because anything less costs our clients time and money.
Why Your Work Matters
In Walmart wholesale and distribution, customer service is not an afterthought—it’s a control lever on profit and account survival. Every buyer communication is a risk or reward moment. A slow reply, a refund with the wrong tone, or a misapplied policy doesn’t just “hurt CX”—it creates platform heat, margin loss, and reorder hesitation. Clients aren’t hiring you to keep inboxes neat. They’re relying on your judgment to prevent blowback, preserve rankings, and keep revenue moving.
Right now, every ticket is a battlefield: protect the client’s money, defend the account, and keep the buyer confident enough to come back. When you execute correctly, you reduce churn, limit losses, and build operational headroom. When you don’t, mistakes compound fast—and clean-up costs triple in hours, not days. This isn’t reactive work. It’s frontline risk management, with real business outcomes tied to every message you send.
What We Expect From You
As a Specialist-level Customer Service Expert at OES, you are responsible for high-volume, high-stakes client accounts on Walmart Marketplace and in Wholesale Distribution. You must have sound judgment when dealing with order escalations, buyer disputes, and platform-facing risks — because mistakes here create direct operational and financial loss. You are expected to anticipate negative outcomes before they happen, not just react after the fact. At this tier, you are not just following processes; you are proactively protecting account health, profitability, and compliance on every ticket.
We’re looking for someone who can manage pressure and maintain discipline in the chaos of real-time customer issues, supply chain delays, and sensitive reseller dynamics. You need to understand the strategic position of every partner — not just how to respond, but why it matters. Excellence in this role means holding the line on quality, even when rushed, even when exhausted, especially when others wouldn’t notice the shortcut. If you can lead clients and internal teams through conflict with clarity and control, you belong here. This is a frontline profit-and-risk role — and we only assign this seat to operators we can trust.
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$500 – $1,050
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