About The Position

The Regional General Manager provides leadership across a multi-facility distribution center network, driving safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations. This role is responsible for setting strategic direction, ensuring consistent execution of operational standards, developing leaders, and delivering strong performance across safety, service, quality, and financial results. The Regional General Manager partners closely with Supply Chain, Home Office teams, and facility leadership to strengthen network performance, drive continuous improvement, and support Walmart’s mission to serve customers and communities. This role involves leading regional distribution center operations to achieve goals related to safety, service, quality, compliance, and cost, setting and executing regional business plans aligned to network and enterprise priorities, overseeing staffing, workload planning, and performance execution across multiple facilities, and managing financial performance. It also focuses on ensuring compliance with logistics, safety, quality, and regulatory standards, leading, coaching, and developing distribution center leaders, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and partnering cross-functionally with various teams. The role offers regional scope, leadership at scale, strategic impact, operational complexity, and career growth opportunities within broader supply chain or enterprise leadership roles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field (e.g., Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Financial Management, Production/Operations Management); and 3 years experience in a senior management role within an operations/distribution/logistics/retail environment, supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing managers/supervisors; managing workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of employees facility-wide
  • OR 2 years experience as a Walmart Logistics Assistant General Manager supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing associates; managing associate workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of associates
  • OR 5 years experience in a senior management role as an operations/distribution/logistics/retail environment, supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing managers/supervisors; managing workload; and participating in the hiring and promotion of employees facility-wide
  • 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

  • Apparel Product Development
  • Business Operations
  • Compliance
  • Facilities Planning
  • Financial Modeling and Analysis
  • Logistics
  • Modeling/Forecasting
  • Preparing and executing budgets
  • Profit and Loss (P&L) Accountability
  • Recruiting
  • Supervising Associates
  • Talent Development
  • Walmart Logistics Manager
  • Warehouse Management Systems
  • Bachelors: Business
  • Bachelors: Finance
  • Bachelors: Logistics
  • Bachelors: Management
  • Bachelors: Operations Management
  • Bachelors: Video Production

Responsibilities

  • Lead regional distribution center operations to achieve goals related to safety, service, quality, compliance, and cost
  • Set and execute regional business plans aligned to network and enterprise priorities
  • Oversee staffing, workload planning, and performance execution across multiple facilities
  • Manage financial performance, including budgets, expenses, asset utilization, and reporting
  • Ensure compliance with logistics, safety, quality, and regulatory standards
  • Lead, coach, and develop distribution center leaders; support hiring, promotion, and succession planning
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives, standard work, and adoption of new technologies
  • Partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Merchandising, Inventory, and Home Office teams
  • Investigate and resolve escalated associate, customer, and supplier concerns
  • Represent the region through community engagement and company-sponsored initiatives
  • Communicate with or to individuals or groups verbally and/or in writing (e.g., customers, suppliers, associates)
  • Drive, develop, and oversee implementation of the business plan for the facility to achieve facility goals (e.g., production, quality, safety) and develop strategic improvements for complex operations
  • Review and approve forecasted staffing plans to ensure staffing plans are forecasted sufficiently to meet business demands for workload and performance results and are implemented timely
  • Manage financial aspects for the facility by approving and tracking expenses compared to budget, monitoring asset utilization, and preparing, reviewing, and/or analyzing business reports
  • Monitor and ensure facility-wide compliance with Logistics and company quality and safety standards, policies, procedures, and directives by developing, distributing, and/or maintaining procedures and supporting documentation
  • Ensure associate, customer, and supplier concerns are resolved by thoroughly investigating and making decisions based on facts of the situation or consulting with others
  • Serve as a community liaison by participating in local and community organizations and charitable activities, champion company-sponsored programs and events to associates, customers, and the local community
  • Lead and direct the facility's leadership by setting direction and ensuring it is carried out, communicating goals, monitoring performance and providing feedback, identifying training and development needs and ensuring opportunities for learning and growth are available, supporting Logistics and company policies and procedures, and overseeing the hiring, promotion, coaching, teaching, and evaluation of associates
  • Build high-performing teams, embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
  • Work collaboratively, build strong and trusting relationships, communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence
  • Attract and retain the best talent, empower and develop talent, and recognize others' contributions and accomplishments
  • Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, model the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, hold oneself and others accountable, support 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)
  • Act in a selfless manner and be consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent
  • Deliver results while putting the customer first, consider and adapt to how, where, and when customers shop, and apply the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans
  • Make decisions based on data insights and analysis, balance short and long-term priorities, and consider our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans
  • Display curiosity and a desire to learn, take calculated risks, demonstrate courage and resilience, and encourage learning from mistakes
  • Drive continuous improvements, adopt and encourage the use of new technologies and skills, and support 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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