Director, Merchandising - Collectibles - Toys

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

21h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Merchandising Director at Walmart, you will own the strategy and performance of a highly complex business, bringing products to life both in stores and online at unmatched scale. You will set category direction, lead teams, shape supplier partnerships, and drive profitable growth across omni channel customer touchpoints. This role offers autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to influence decisions that impact millions of customers while building the future of retail alongside industry leading talent. Walmart Merchandising sits at the center of how we serve customers, combining customer insight, data, and supplier partnerships to deliver the right products at the right value. Our teams operate with full ownership of category strategy, financial performance, and execution across stores and digital platforms. As a Merchandising Director, you will play a critical role in shaping long term business plans, driving innovation, and ensuring our assortments meet evolving customer needs, while aligning to Walmart’s broader enterprise strategies. You enjoy owning and developing strategic plans for highly complex categories, supporting long term business plans and executing prioritized strategic initiatives. You are data savvy, can analyze competition, customer behavior, industry trends, and the macro environment. You are omni channel customer-focused, understand customer behavior across channels, and make customer-centric recommendations and decisions across all customer touchpoints. You guide suppliers, vendors, and your team in the development of customer focused processes and products. You are tenacious, dedicated and thrive working with ownership, autonomy, and a healthy dose of competition.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising or related field and 4 years’ experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area. OR 6 years’ experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area.
1 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Office
Negotiating with third-party suppliers
Supervisory experience
Masters: Business Administration

Responsibilities

Own and develop strategic plans for highly complex categories, supporting long term business plans and executing prioritized strategic initiatives.
Analyze competition, customer behavior, industry trends, and the macro environment.
Understand customer behavior across channels, and make customer-centric recommendations and decisions across all customer touchpoints.
Guide suppliers, vendors, and your team in the development of customer focused processes and products.
Set the category strategy and growth for multiple formats and departments for large, complex, or high-risk categories and subcategories by identifying relevant trends to meet customer needs.
Drive the planning, budgeting, forecasting and growth for your categories and establish a comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape to incorporate into your business plans.
Establish and influence high-visibility supplier relationships.
Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes and identify and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
Demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning.
Look for creative ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and customer experience.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Incentive awards for performance
401(k) match
Stock purchase plan
Paid maternity leave
Paid parental leave
PTO (including sick leave, vacation, holidays, or other purposes)
Multiple health plans (medical, vision, dental coverage)
Performance-based bonus awards
Company-paid life insurance
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 high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning and short-form certificates)