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Position: Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72712

Duties: Monitors and reviews changes in customer and competitor behavior and develops appropriate organization responses. Consults with internal/external stakeholders to seek out strategic alternatives. Assesses options based on impacts to key business imperatives. Tailors’ offerings and solutions to current and future needs. Facilitates cross-functional team thinking to collectively create and share ideas. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Collaborates with partners in the value chain to develop beneficial working relationships and positive outcomes across international markets. Leads cross-functional strategic initiatives and encourages team members to cultivate relationships across businesses and markets. Establishes shared goals and information-sharing platforms to foster collaboration. Resolves issues related to collaborative efforts in varying business conditions. Evaluates and translates business strategies into financial targets and tactical plans. Identifies risks and supports the execution of plans in a controlled risk and reward-based manner. Leverages strategic planning expertise in diverse business environments to identify the key drivers of sustainable competitive advantage for an assigned business line. Interprets and makes effective management decisions using benchmarking, trends, and other planning and forecasting methods. Develops and implements improvements to planning processes. Uses appropriate risk resources, policies, and regulations to ensure compliance with risk management protocols. Ensures risks are efficiently addressed through proper documentation, collaboration, and adherence with data integrity standards. Monitors changes in the risk environment. Participates in the design of cross-functional risk management processes, models, tools, and internal control mechanisms. Evaluates risk assessment models and techniques relevant to an assigned line of business. Challenges assumptions and identifies potential consequences and risk levels. Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as needed. Prepares and makes recommendations and guides the implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Collaborates with stakeholders across multiple functions to drive the recommended solutions. Utilizes expertise to proactively anticipate and prevent problems. Understands the drivers of the financial metrics that impact the business. Performs analyses based on independent reasoning to draw appropriate conclusions. Analyzes business and financial data and supports the implementation and tracking of business plans that enable the attainment of financial goals. Understands the impacts of factors and trends that may affect financial performance. Communicates the results of analyses to diverse audiences. Ensures data quality and organization for analysis. Defines benchmarks and quality rules for key data assets. Participates in the feedback loop between data intake and insights and works on improving the data-collection process. Identifies opportunities for improving data-driven decision-making. Identifies and proposes ways to automate and/or improve existing processes in assigned area of work with the help of technology.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business or related field plus 5 years of experience in business development or a related field.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Strategic Planning; Modeling; Business Analysis; Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Business Intelligence using any of the following tools: Tableau, Looker Studio, Power BI, SQL; Performance Metrics and KPI Development; Market Analysis and Competitive Strategy; Revenue Forecasting; Net Promoter Score (NPS) Analysis and Voice of Customer (VOC) Analysis; Business Development and Partnership Development; Project Management, including strategic initiative leadership; cross-functional team leadership; stakeholder management; and change management and implementation. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.