2026 Intern Conversion: 2027 Merchandising Leadership Rotation

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This internship program is designed for individuals who have completed a Summer 2026 Walmart or Sam's Club internship and are looking to enter a Merchandising Leadership Rotation Program in 2027. The role involves coordinating, completing, and overseeing job-related activities, managing projects, developing associates, and ensuring compliance with company policies. It emphasizes respect for individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence. The program aims to develop future leaders in merchandising by providing diverse experiences and growth opportunities.

Requirements

• MUST HAVE COMPLETED A SUMMER 2026 WALMART OR SAMS CLUB INTERNSHIP TO BE ELIGIBLE.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field and 2 years’ experience in business management, merchandising, or related area OR 4 years’ experience in business management, merchandising, or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Certification
• Six Sigma certification
• Supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manages projects by building project plans, assigning projects and tasks to associates, scheduling projects, documenting project scope, developing scorecards and metrics, developing short and long-term plans, overseeing projects from start to completion, and completing projects in accordance with agreed-upon timelines.
• Manages the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, providing resources, identifying performance standards, measuring progress, and adjusting performance accordingly, developing contingency plans, and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Manages the development of associates by providing training and support, monitoring associates' growth, sharing key learning, providing feedback and coaching on performance, providing input on performance appraisals, selecting team members, and ensuring associates have the knowledge and skills necessary to advance.
• Manages support to internal customers by reviewing project requests and project plans, analyzing data, driving solutions to business problems and store processes, providing feedback on operational processes, and providing recommendations for system changes and overall process changes.
• Prioritizes and executes key business strategies and communication platforms by managing cross-functional initiatives that impact store and corporate processes, managing merchandising programs and initiatives, customer and company communications, and associate training content, making recommendations for system support developments, recommending merchandise priorities, providing insight to senior management and other business partners on key issues and opportunities to drive the business, and translating merchandise strategies for assigned departments into executable programs.
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all, builds a high-performing team, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer/member 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 customer/member and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively and cross-functionally 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 Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us, creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, and 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 non-retaliation, 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, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's 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 risk-taking, 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

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption expense reimbursement
• Surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program (tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart for eligible full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern