Manager, Strategic Partnerships (Retail Media)

Walmart • Hoboken, NJ

117d • $96,000 - $186,000

About The Position

The Manager, Business Development and Strategy Generalist will join Walmart Connects (WMC) in-house Strategy team to help identify, evaluate, and accelerate new revenue opportunities through partnerships and support long term strategy definition projects. The WMC Strategy team is envisioning the future of WMC and its important role within Walmart. In this role, you will help formulate the future of retail advertising by evaluating new strategies and businesses to grow WMC, including partnerships. You have 2-3+ years of investment banking, consulting, and/or corporate strategy experience (partnership experience preferred, business development a plus) within the technology, retail, media or advertising industry and have a deep capacity for juggling multiple high-profile projects. We will need your industry curiosity and understanding, strategic mindset, and analytical skills to support the definition and evaluation of opportunities to grow WMC. This role entails sizing market potential and evaluating competitors and other industry participants, while creating actionable recommendations for WMC leadership and Walmart executives. Critical thinking, resourcefulness and strong attention to detail are required skill sets. Experience supporting the creation of leadership materials is a must.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years' experience in investment banking, consulting, corporate strategy, or business development, with a strong focus on strategic partnerships.
• Demonstrated success in cross-functional project management and partnership execution.
• Strong analytical, research, and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in building and managing complex partnerships, ideally within the technology, retail, media, or advertising sectors.
• Supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, evaluation, and execution of strategic partnerships to drive business development and long-term value for WMC.
• Conduct market opportunity sizing, competitive analysis, capability benchmarking, build/buy/partner analyses, proof of concept testing, and business case development to support new initiatives.
• Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product, finance, legal, and operations—to align on partnership strategies and ensure seamless execution.
• Manage multiple, high-visibility projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Develop executive-level presentations and leadership materials to communicate recommendations and progress to senior executive stakeholders.
• Support long-term strategy projects with financial modeling, competitive research, and whitepaper development.

Benefits

• Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree