(USA) Operations Manager

Walmart•Bartlett, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Manager initiates, directs, and participates in community outreach programs, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, and providing supervision and development opportunities for hourly associates. The role involves modeling exceptional customer service, assisting the store manager in driving financial performance by managing sales and profit goals, and coordinating job-related activities. The manager is expected to build high-performing teams, embrace diversity, act with integrity, serve customers first, and strive for excellence through continuous improvement and learning. Walmart is committed to helping customers save money and is reinventing the shopping experience, with associates playing a crucial role in shaping the future of retail.

Requirements

2 years’ of college; OR 1 year’s retail experience and 1 year’s supervisory experience; OR 2 years’ general work experience and 1 year’s supervisory experience.
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

Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University
General work experience supervising 5 or more direct reports to include the responsibility of performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing

Responsibilities

Initiates, directs, and participates in community outreach programs by encouraging and supporting associates and managers in serving as good members of the community.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with key individuals or groups in the community.
Representing the company to various external organizations and championing company-sponsored programs, events, and sustainability efforts to associates, customers, and the local community.
Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures by holding hourly associates accountable, analyzing and interpreting reports, implementing and monitoring asset protection and safety controls, maintaining quality assurance standards, overseeing safety and operational reviews, developing and implementing action plans to correct deficiencies, and providing direction and guidance on executing company programs and strategic initiatives.
Provides supervision and development opportunities for hourly associates in assigned area by hiring, training, mentoring, and actively listening to associates.
Assigning duties, evaluating performance, and providing recognition.
Setting clear expectations, communicating expectations consistently and effectively, promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace, and providing tour to teach feedback to ensure business goals are achieved.
Models and demonstrates exceptional customer service standards to store associates by following and demonstrating the One Best Way (OBW) service model.
Managing and supporting customer service initiatives, ensuring customer needs, complaints, and issues are successfully resolved.
Developing and implementing action plans to correct deficiencies and providing process improvement leadership to ensure a high-quality customer experience.
Assists store manager in driving the financial performance of the Facility by ensuring that sales and profit goals are achieved.
Reviewing and evaluating P&L (Profit & Loss) statements.
Assisting the management team in controlling expenses to ensure they are indexed to sales.
Developing and implementing plans to correct any deficiencies in financial performance and participating in analyzing economic trends and community needs for budget forecasting.
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.
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, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)