(USA) Continuous Skills Development Manager

Walmart•Belvidere, IL

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Continuous Skills Development Manager coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities by fostering stakeholder relationships, supporting business needs, setting goals, measuring progress, and promoting continuous learning. This role involves supervising and developing associates through hiring, training, mentoring, and cultivating a sense of belonging. The manager ensures compliance with company policies, upholds the company's mission, values, and ethical standards, and implements relevant action plans. Key responsibilities include implementing and managing facility-level training programs, collaborating within a functional/divisional training network, overseeing the execution and quality of change programs, leading project teams for change initiatives, and actively participating in the facility leadership team. The manager also coordinates corporate initiatives with facility and home office associates, manages training programs using available resources, supports Quality, Safety, and Human Resources teams in meeting training requirements, and guides the Leadership Development process. Furthermore, the role focuses on supporting associate engagement through learning opportunities, cross-training, fostering teamwork, monitoring work plans, and resolving issues. The position emphasizes building high-performing teams, embracing diversity, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence through continuous improvement and learning.

Requirements

6 months experience as a Walmart Supply Chain associate OR 1 year's experience in manufacturing, warehousing, or distribution center environment OR 2 or more years' of college in a Business or related field

Responsibilities

Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
Supports plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs
Identifies and communicates goals and objectives
Builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results
Identifies and addressing improvement opportunities
Demonstrates adaptability and promoting continuous learning
Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace
Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices
Implements training programs at the facility level
Participates as a member of the Functional/Divisional training network with other facilities to determine current best practices and share learnings
Manages execution and quality of delivery across the change programs as assigned incorporating the initial change impact assessment results into program delivery plans ensuring stakeholder alignment communicating change initiatives and leading program interventions to help achieve our desired change outcomes and providing change sponsorship as required
Oversees coordinates and provides leadership to project team supporting change initiatives establishing and measuring change key performance indicators for change programs ensuring consistency in messaging between multiple projects delivering clear direction to end users for example project team facility leadership facility associate and managing site communications and developing a communication strategy and execution model
Acts as an active member of the facility leadership team sharing knowledge expertise and coaching to develop others leveraging involvement in operations programs to drive change initiatives through modeling appropriate change management behaviors and engaging program teams in the change management process
Coordinates with facility level and home office level associates and leadership to implement corporate initiatives
Coordinates training programs utilizing and maintaining training materials leveraging associate expertise and resources to assist in the facilitation of training in the facility supporting Quality Safety and Human Resources teams in the meeting training requirements
Guides and executes the Leadership Development process across the facility managing and coordinating the hourly associate training programs for example Lead Program assessing and calibrating training programs to determine training effectiveness ensuring required training is tracked and scheduled working with the Implementation Managers to ensure the overall training strategy is delivered
Supports associate engagement by providing learning opportunities building relationships providing crosstraining opportunities consistently encouraging cross functional teamwork monitoring work plans workloads and associates schedules in order to meet deadlines resolving issues to avoid delays in project deliverables and using systems to audit progress and identify concerns early
Builds high-performing teams embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where associates feel seen supported and connected through a culture of belonging creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
Works collaboratively builds strong and trusting relationships communicates with impact energy and positivity to motivate and influence
Attracts and retains the best talent empowers and develops talent and recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture holds oneself and others accountable supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers members and the world around us
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble selfaware honest fair and transparent
Delivers results while putting the customer first considers and adapts to how where and when customers shop and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans
Makes decisions based on data insights and analysis balances short and longterm priorities and considers our customers fellow associates shareholders suppliers business partners and communities when making plans
Displays curiosity and a desire to learn takes calculated risks demonstrates courage and resilience and encourages learning from mistakes
Drives continuous improvements adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills and supports others through change

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates)