Director, Corporate Strategy

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • $110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Role summary: The Director, Corporate Strategy serves as a central integrator, connecting priorities, people, and insights to shape Walmart’s long-term trajectory. This leader drives the development of integrated, enterprise-wide strategic plans with a 5-year horizon, ensuring alignment across all business areas. Partnering closely with senior leadership, they govern the enterprise agenda, navigate complex trade-offs, and translate long-range strategy into actionable pathways. The role also responds to ad hoc executive committee priorities, requiring strong problem-solving, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to synthesize inputs into clear, compelling recommendations that drive enterprise impact. About the team: The Enterprise Strategy team at Walmart guides the company’s long-term strategic direction by aligning priorities, supporting executive initiatives, and managing the portfolio to advance growth opportunities. Working closely with senior leadership, the team transforms data-driven insights into actionable plans addressing complex business challenges. Focused on innovation and competitive positioning, it leads high-impact projects and explores future opportunities to ensure sustained success. This team plays a key role in influencing strategic decisions, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and providing thought leadership to support Walmart’s evolving business landscape.

Requirements

• Deep experience in corporate strategy, enterprise planning, or governance within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong process management skills, building and running integrated, enterprise-wide planning and governance processes, including 3–5 year strategic planning.
• Proven ability to operate as an integrator, aligning stakeholders and driving cohesive outcomes across functions.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, structuring ambiguity and synthesizing insights into actionable recommendations, including for executive committee priorities.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, with the ability to drive alignment without authority while managing multiple priorities with rigor and discretion.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or related area and 7 years’ experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business development, or related area OR 9 years’ experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business development, or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Leading strategy teams
• Masters: Business

Responsibilities

• Serve as a central integrator across business units, aligning priorities, stakeholders, and insights to drive execution of most critical enterprise initiatives.
• Lead the development of integrated, enterprise-wide strategic plans with a 5-year horizon, ensuring alignment across all functions and markets.
• Govern and sequence the enterprise strategic agenda, structuring decisions, managing trade-offs, and driving clarity on priorities.
• Respond to high-priority, ad hoc executive questions by navigating ambiguity, sourcing expertise across the organization, and synthesizing insights into clear recommendations.
• Drive structured problem-solving on complex, cross-functional challenges, leveraging data, competitive intelligence, and customer insights.
• Communicate strategic recommendations through compelling, executive-ready narratives that influence decisions and enable enterprise-wide alignment.

Benefits

• 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.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees