(USA) Continuous Skills Development Manager

Walmart • Desoto, TX

1d • 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 for and measuring progress in achieving results, identifying and addressing improvement opportunities, and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning. This role provides supervision and development opportunities for associates through hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, providing recognition, and fostering a belonging mindset. The manager ensures compliance with company policies and procedures, supports the company's mission, values, and ethics by implementing action plans, utilizing the Open Door Policy, and guiding business processes. Key responsibilities include implementing training programs at the facility level, participating in the Functional/Divisional training network, managing change program execution and quality, leading project teams for change initiatives, acting as a facility leadership team member, coordinating corporate initiatives, and guiding the Leadership Development process. The manager also supports associate engagement by providing learning and cross-training opportunities, encouraging teamwork, monitoring workloads, and resolving issues.

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 measures progress in achieving results
• Identifies and addresses improvement opportunities
• Demonstrates adaptability and promotes continuous learning
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training
• Mentors associates
• Assigns duties
• Provides recognition
• Promotes a belonging mindset in the workplace
• Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures
• Supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans
• Utilizes and supports the Open Door Policy
• Provides direction and guidance on applying company policies and procedures 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 initial change impact assessment results into program delivery plans
• Ensures stakeholder alignment, communicating change initiatives and leading program interventions to help achieve desired change outcomes
• Provides change sponsorship as required
• Oversees, coordinates, and provides leadership to project teams supporting change initiatives
• Establishes and measures change key performance indicators for change programs
• Ensures consistency in messaging between multiple projects
• Delivers clear direction to end users (e.g., project team, facility leadership, facility associate)
• Manages site communications and develops a communication strategy and execution model
• Acts as an active member of the facility leadership team, sharing knowledge, expertise, and coaching to develop others
• Leverages 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
• Leverages associate expertise and resources to assist in the facilitation of training in the facility
• Supports Quality, Safety, and Human Resources teams in meeting training requirements
• Guides and executes the Leadership Development process across the facility
• Manages and coordinates the hourly associate training programs (e.g., Lead Program)
• Assesses and calibrates training programs to determine training effectiveness
• Ensures required training is tracked and scheduled
• Works with Implementation Managers to ensure the overall training strategy is delivered
• Supports associate engagement by providing learning opportunities
• Builds relationships and provides cross-training opportunities
• Consistently encourages cross-functional teamwork
• Monitors work plans, workloads, and associates' schedules in order to meet deadlines
• Resolves issues to avoid delays in project deliverables
• Uses 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 (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving)
• 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
• Applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans
• Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis
• Balances short and long-term priorities
• 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
• Encourages learning from mistakes
• Drives continuous improvements
• Adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills
• 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 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 programs from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)
• Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
• Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
• Stock

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree