Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer services.

The Senior Manager I, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives is responsible for overseeing, tracking, and operationalizing key growth and process improvement initiatives across the Food category within Walmart’s marketplace organization. They work in close collaboration with Product Management, Programs, Operations, and Global Sourcing to help create frictionless seller experiences that drive business growth. If you are passionate about figuring out smarter ways to work, are a project management rock star, and looking to help scale a growing business, this opportunity is for you!

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You are customer/seller obsessed, relationship driven, and thrive in a constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• You have strong problem solving and analytical skills
• You are able to present compelling quantitative and qualitative analyses, assessing metrics related to the business and partnering with commercial leads to gain expert insights.
• You are able to identify/assess seller pain points and recognize functionality gaps that block business growth.
• You are capable of organizing, prioritizing, and managing multiple projects while supporting a commercial team.
• You are results-oriented and enable connectedness, speed and agility across the organization
• You support the translation of ideas between category leads and operational/technology teams into actions with accelerated delivery timeframes.
• You have the ability to navigate left-right (across multiple topic areas) and up-down (moving between high level strategy and granular tactics).
• You have high standards with a proven track record of leadership, taking ownership and holding project contributors accountable to produce exceptional results.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Driving strategic initiatives critical to Food growth: Be the voice and advocate for the Marketplace Food business, assessing and prioritizing key initiatives that will set Walmart Marketplace as an industry leader. Connect the dots and resolve issues as they are discovered.
• Liaising between the Food Strategic Account Management team and the Product and Program teams:  Provide insights to translate priorities into actionable game plans, drive a high rate of seller adoption, and ensure the right resources are in place, considering both capability and capacity; partner in execution, ensure the right KPIs are in place to support impact measurement. Manage specific features, functionalities and tooling enhancements through the development of business cases, product requirements, and overall project management.
• Building strategic relationships: Maximizing relationships with new and existing internal and external stakeholders. Drive large, complex change efforts and achieve results through influence and persuasion. Build effective ways of working across teams and drive collaboration and coordination across functions.

• Operating with excellence: Identify opportunity areas that create efficiency, remove obstacles and improve business processes. Set an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others. Champion change and evolution, persuading through use of data and facts; demonstrate sufficient gravitas; inspire and motivate others.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Business Management, Business Operations, Strategy & Planning, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, eCommerce operations, Marketplace or related area.
• Strong analytical skills with deep experience across commercial and technology functions, business performance analyses, and business case development
• Ability to distill complex business issues and strategies to highlight insights and actionable recommendations in a concise and persuasive manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional team to drive positive business outcomes.
• Assertive, adaptable, and demonstrates initiative in a fast-paces environment with competing priorities.
• Project Management and/or Agile Methodologies Certification

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field and 6-8 years’ experience in Business Management, Business Operations, Project Management or related field.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Benefits & Perks

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(K) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO multiple health plans, and much more.

We’re virtual 

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the workplace of the future by making a transition to virtual work for parts of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose. 

Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Who We Are
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279:The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00-$216,000.00

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San Bruno, California US-08848:The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00-$234,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field and 4 years’ experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel
Merchandising, or a related area. Option 2: 6 years’ experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related
area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America