About The Position
This position involves communicating with individuals or groups, both verbally and in writing, including customers, suppliers, and associates. The role requires driving and implementing the business plan for the area of responsibility to achieve facility goals such as production, quality, and safety, and implementing operational improvements. Key tasks include forecasting staffing, workload, and performance results to meet business demands, preparing, reviewing, and analyzing business reports to identify operational improvements, and monitoring compliance with Logistics and company quality and safety standards. The manager will identify and resolve associate, customer, and supplier concerns, and supervise and manage associates and leaders by providing direction, monitoring performance, offering feedback, identifying training needs, and participating in hiring, promotion, coaching, and evaluation. The role emphasizes building high-performing teams, embracing diversity, fostering a culture of belonging, and creating opportunities for associates to thrive. It also involves working collaboratively, building strong relationships, and communicating effectively to motivate and influence. Attracting and retaining talent, empowering development, and recognizing contributions are also key. The position requires maintaining high standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling Walmart values, and holding oneself and others accountable. It supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact, including creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, and participating in local giving. The manager is expected to act selflessly, be humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Customer focus is paramount, delivering results while considering customer shopping habits and applying EDLP and EDLC business models. Decisions should be data-driven, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering all stakeholders. The role encourages curiosity, continuous learning, calculated risks, resilience, and supporting others through change, while driving continuous improvements and adopting new technologies. Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and create a career you're proud of.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in business or a related field (e.g., Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Financial Management, Production/Operations Management); and 1 year's experience in an operations/distribution/logistics/retail environment, supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing managers/supervisors; managing workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of employees for multiple departments / areas
- OR 1 year's experience as a Walmart Logistics Area Manager supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing associates; managing associate workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of associates
- OR 3 years' experience in an operations/distribution/logistics/retail environment, supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing managers/supervisors; managing workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of employees for multiple departments / areas.
- Associates will be required to attend and successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments (for example, Academy trainings, Open Door trainings, etc.).
Nice To Haves
- Financial Modeling and Analysis
- Managing challenging workforce issues
- Modeling/Forecasting
- Preparing and executing budgets
- Profit and Loss (P&L) Accountability
- Supervising Associates
- Walmart Logistics Manager
- Bachelors: Business
- Bachelors: Finance
- Bachelors: Logistics
- Bachelors: Management
- Bachelors: Operations Management
Responsibilities
- Communicate with or to individuals or groups verbally and/or in writing (e.g., customers, suppliers, associates).
- Drive and implement the business plan for area of responsibility to achieve facility goals (e.g., production, quality, safety) and implement operational improvements.
- Forecast staffing, workload, and performance results to meet business demands for workload and performance results for area of responsibility.
- Prepare, review, and/or analyze business reports and use information to identify operational improvements (e.g., production, quality, safety).
- Monitor and ensure area of responsibility's compliance with Logistics and company quality and safety standards, policies, procedures, and directives by developing, distributing, and/or maintaining procedures and supporting documentation.
- Identify and ensure associate, customer, and supplier concerns are resolved using own judgment or consulting others when needed.
- Supervise and manage associates and leaders in area of responsibility by giving direction, monitoring performance, and providing feedback; identifying training and development needs and providing opportunities for learning and growth; teaching, supporting, and modeling Logistics and company policies and procedures; and participating in the hiring, promotion, coaching, teaching, and evaluation of associates, leaders, and managers.
- Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
- Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
- Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
- Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
- Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
- Delivers results while putting the customer first, considers and adapts to how, where, and when customers shop, and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
- Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
- Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes.
- Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
- Voting leave
- 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. 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.)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
