Manager, Merchandising Planning-1

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Merchandising Planning role at Walmart involves demonstrating expertise in merchandising planning, developing and executing action plans, and ensuring compliance with company policies and ethical standards. Key responsibilities include performing financial forecasting using data-driven analytics and trend insights, partnering with cross-functional teams on forecast inputs, and guiding teammates on actions to improve results. The position also entails influencing feature and promotional plans based on historical performance, supporting decisions on feature buy quantities and store-level allocation, and communicating financial requirements. This role requires assessing business health, generating data-driven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes, and socializing findings to steer decisions impacting the P&L. Other duties include developing and recommending category financial targets, building budget information into the financial system, and providing monthly financial perspectives and seasonal analysis. The manager must maintain an omni-channel customer focus, understand customer behavior across channels, and anticipate customer trends. Leveraging data analysis and visualization tools to develop insights and influence strategic direction is crucial. The role also involves assessing item-level performance during line reviews, analyzing assortment changes' financial impact, and presenting executive summaries to leadership. Walmart emphasizes values such as respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers and members, and striving for excellence, encouraging a culture of belonging, continuous improvement, and ethical conduct.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field and 2 years’ experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or related area.
• OR 4 years’ experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Negotiating terms and costing
• Retail Link
• Supervisory
• Masters: Marketing

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates uptodate expertise and applies this to the development execution and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs and building commitment for perspectives and rationales
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission values and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans using the Open Door Policy and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices
• Performs all financial forecasting within categories using datadriven analytics trend insights and business intelligence to project future results
• Partners with crossfunctional team on inputs to forecast and shares output with team to drive alignment
• Understands implications of trend to each metric and is able to guide teammates on actions to improve results
• Influences feature and promotional plans using historical performance data and business insight
• Supports decision on feature buy quantities and store level allocation
• Uses appropriate tools to determine impact of price to unit velocity and communicates financial requirements
• Communicates performance and influences any required change in strategy
• Assess health of the business and seek rootcause of opportunities
• Generate datadriven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes
• Socialize findings and ideas to crossfunctional team in order to steer decisions that impact the PL
• Develops and makes recommendations on category and subcategory financial targets
• Notate and convey business intelligence pertaining to future category performance
• Builds budget information into the financial system for fiscal category budgets
• Own monthly financial perspective for categories highlighting business drivers opportunities key action plans and timelines
• Provides seasonal and event analysis and reporting for key timeframes
• Consistently makes customercentric recommendations and business decisions across scope of responsibility
• Understands customer behavior across channels or within relevant channels for example demand trends buying behaviors consumption patterns around SKUs
• Anticipates customer trends and influences demand through deep understanding of customer needs and depth of category vision
• Leverages data analysis tools to explore multifaceted financial data
• Develops and tests hypotheses
• Builds and presents insights using visualization tools to influence decisions and steer financial performance
• Leverages insights sourced from data business intelligence and customer trends to influence strategic direction of category
• Establish connection between qualitative strategy and quantitative impact
• Share findings and perspective to relevant stakeholders to ensure informed decisions within scope of ownership
• Assesses itemlevel performance during line review process
• Analyzes and challenges assumptions regarding performance expectations
• Communicates the aggregate financial impact of planned assortment changes
• Creates executive summary on expected financial results and present to leadership team
• Conducts postmodular analysis to drive accountability to decisions and forecasts
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a highperforming team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and crossfunctionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble selfaware honest and transparent
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risktaking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Performance-based bonus awards
• 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
• 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: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees