Continuous Skills Development Manager

Walmart • Lebanon, PA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Continuous Skills Development Manager coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs, identifying and communicating goals and objectives, building accountability, and promoting continuous learning. This role involves providing supervision and development opportunities for associates through hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, and fostering a belonging mindset. The manager ensures compliance with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards. Key responsibilities include implementing training programs at the facility level, participating in the Functional/Divisional training network, and managing the execution and quality of change programs. The manager also oversees and provides leadership to project teams supporting change initiatives, acts as an active member of the facility leadership team, and coordinates with facility and home office associates for corporate initiatives. Furthermore, the role involves guiding and executing the Leadership Development process, managing hourly associate training programs, and supporting associate engagement by providing learning and cross-training opportunities. The position emphasizes Walmart's core values: Respect the Individual, Act with Integrity, Serve Our Customers and Members, and Strive for Excellence, contributing to a culture of belonging, ethical conduct, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

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; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating 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 Walmart's 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, self-aware, 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 long-term 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
• Health benefits (medical, vision and dental coverage)
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting
• 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 programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees