(USA) Continuous Skills Development Manager

Walmart•Plainfield, IN

22h•Onsite

About The Position

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. The role involves implementing training programs at the facility level, participating in a functional/divisional training network, and managing the execution and quality of delivery across change programs. This includes incorporating change impact assessment results, ensuring stakeholder alignment, communicating initiatives, and leading program interventions. The manager oversees and provides leadership to project teams supporting change initiatives, establishing and measuring KPIs, ensuring consistent messaging, and managing site communications. They act as an active member of the facility leadership team, sharing expertise and coaching, and leveraging operations programs to drive change. The position coordinates with facility and home office associates to implement corporate initiatives, utilizes and maintains training materials, and supports Quality, Safety, and Human Resources teams. It also guides and executes the Leadership Development process, manages hourly associate training programs, assesses training effectiveness, and ensures required training is tracked. The role supports associate engagement by providing learning opportunities, building relationships, offering cross-training, monitoring work plans, and resolving issues. The manager is expected to respect individuals by building high-performing teams, embracing differences, creating a culture of belonging, and fostering opportunities for all associates to thrive. They should work collaboratively, build trusting relationships, and communicate with impact. They are also responsible for attracting, retaining, empowering, and developing talent, and recognizing contributions. Acting with integrity involves maintaining high standards of ethics and compliance, modeling Walmart values, holding oneself and others accountable, and supporting Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company. This includes acting selflessly, being humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Serving customers and members means delivering results with a customer-first approach, adapting to shopping behaviors, applying EDLP/EDLC models, and making data-driven decisions considering all stakeholders. Striving for excellence involves displaying curiosity, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, encouraging learning from mistakes, driving continuous improvements, adopting new technologies, and supporting others through change.

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 addresses 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 (e.g. creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving)
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, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)
PPTO (can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes)
Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
Stock