Project Manager (Talent Acquisition)

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Relocation to Bentonville, AR is required. The Project Manager (Talent Acquisition) is an execution-focused professional responsible for driving recruiting and TA projects from intake through delivery with accuracy, consistency, and strong process discipline. Partnering with hiring managers, recruiters, and People Partners, you’ll manage timelines, coordinate workstreams, and ensure recruiting deliverables land on schedule. Success is measured at the requisition, initiative, or project level—through predictable delivery, clear communication, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Strong project coordination skills: planning, timeline management, dependency tracking, and follow-through
• Stakeholder management capability with clear, concise communication and proactive risk escalation
• Familiarity with recruiting operations and hiring workflows (ATS, interview scheduling, approvals)
• Comfort working with metrics and maintaining high data accuracy for reporting and decision-making
• Process discipline and a continuous improvement mindset
• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or related area OR 2 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Relocation to Bentonville, AR is required.

Responsibilities

• Build strong working relationships through responsiveness, follow-through, and reliable execution.
• Facilitate structured intake discussions to confirm hiring needs, scope, timelines, and expectations.
• Provide clear, regular status updates on hiring progress and recruiting initiatives.
• Identify and escalate risks (timeline, stakeholder availability, sourcing capacity, process gaps) with mitigation recommendations.
• Manage recruiting projects such as hiring waves/blitzes, pipeline build efforts, process improvements, and operational rollouts.
• Create and maintain project plans with milestones, dependencies, owners, and delivery dates.
• Track action items and drive follow-through across recruiting workstreams.
• Document outcomes, risks, and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
• Apply foundational PM practices: planning, execution tracking, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate execution across recruiters, hiring managers, and interview teams to deliver against defined hiring plans.
• Track requisition progress against approved headcount targets and required timelines.
• Monitor pipeline health; flag gaps or delays that could impact delivery.
• Help prioritize recruiting work based on urgency, capacity, and business needs.
• Coordinate structured interview processes aligned to defined steps, rubrics, and timelines.
• Manage interview scheduling logistics and panel coordination across multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure interview feedback is captured accurately and within required timelines.
• Support seamless handoffs between recruiting, hiring managers, and downstream processes.
• Support a positive candidate experience through timely communication, clear expectations, and efficient process flow.
• Resolve scheduling conflicts and remove process delays that impact the candidate journey.
• Partner with recruiters to improve transparency and consistency.
• Maintain accurate ATS and recruiting system data to support reporting and project tracking.
• Track recruiting KPIs (e.g., time-to-fill, time-to-offer, milestone completion) and highlight performance risks.
• Follow established compliance, documentation, and approval of workflows.
• Support continuous improvement of recruiting processes, tools, and operational standards.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment grounded in respect for individuals
• Build trust through accountability, transparency, and consistent execution
• Operate with integrity and ethical judgment
• Demonstrate a growth mindset—seeking feedback and improving how work gets done
• Embrace change, new tools, and evolving ways of working

Benefits

• 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
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
• Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree