2025 Intern Conversion - 2026 FT: Senior Analyst, Merchandising Development Program
About The Position
This role is for the 2025 Intern Conversion - 2026 Full-Time Senior Analyst, Merchandising Development Program. The program is designed for individuals who have completed a Summer 2025 Walmart or Sam's Club internship. The role involves leveraging data analysis tools, deriving insights, and creating reports to influence decisions. It also includes owning the execution of customer communication and education programs, managing search queries, ensuring product page quality, and collaborating on website campaigns. The position supports category finances by tracking performance against financial targets, creating sales reports, and assisting with forecasting and budgeting. Responsibilities extend to developing and executing feature proposals, implementing monthly category features, and supporting modular layout strategies. The role also involves category administration, including resolving supplier issues and setting up new suppliers. Business execution includes supporting business plans, identifying customer and operational needs, and removing barriers to performance. Strategic initiative support involves managing cross-functional initiatives, merchandising programs, and customer communications, as well as providing insights to senior management and translating merchandise strategies into executable programs.
Requirements
- MUST HAVE COMPLETED A SUMMER 2025 WALMART OR SAMS CLUB INTERNSHIP TO BE ELIGIBLE.
- Expected graduation date between December 2025 - May 2026
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related area.
- 1 years’ experience in merchandising or related area.
Nice To Haves
- General Business, Retail/Buying, Merchandising, Economics, Accounting/Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Entrepreneurship majors are desired.
Responsibilities
- Leverages data analysis tools to explore data, performs basic statistical analysis, derives insights, and creates basic reports.
- Uses visualization tools to represent data and construct coherent stories to influence decisions.
- Identifies, implements, and drives technology change within scope of work.
- Owns the execution of customer communication and education programs in stores.
- Collaborates with the modular team.
- Owns search queries for an assigned category.
- Ensures the quality and accuracy of product page content.
- Follows taxonomy guidelines.
- Collaborates with Site Merchandising to run campaigns on the Walmart.com home page as planned.
- Implements rules to filter what appears in search results for shared search terms as needed.
- Supports category finances by tracking performance against organizational financial targets.
- Creates sales reports that analyze sub-category performance against overall business results as needed.
- Supports forecasting as assigned.
- Provides input on budgeting at the sub-category level or below.
- Coordinates with planners/business analysts to determine financial plans and inventory purchase amounts.
- Develops and executes approved proposals for features across stores and online channels.
- Implements themes for monthly category features.
- Supports decisions on recommended modular strategies.
- Supports the implementation of modular layout principles for a category along with the modular team.
- Supports walkthrough execution, owns necessary adjustments based on post-walkthrough analysis, and makes recommendations.
- Supports decisions on corporate quantities of committed-buy and allocated items and quantities to be shared.
- Advises on sharing of items and item replenishment.
- Supports the determination of the finalized modulars.
- Supports merchants with the resolution of supplier issues and supports the setup of new suppliers for stores and online.
- Obtains missing, item-related information from suppliers and/or distributors to ensure items are correctly set up.
- Supports activity planning, store trainings, and store communications.
- Supports the execution of business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating.
- Develops and communicates business plans and priorities.
- Removes barriers and obstacles that impact performance.
- Provides resources.
- Identifies performance standards.
- Measures progress and adjusts performance accordingly.
- Develops contingency plans.
- Demonstrates adaptability and supports continuous learning.
- Executes key business strategies and communication platforms by managing cross-functional initiatives that impact store and corporate processes.
- Manages merchandising programs and initiatives, customer and company communications, and associate training content.
- Makes recommendations for system support developments.
- Recommends merchandise priorities.
- Provides insight to senior management and other business partners on key issues and opportunities to drive the business.
- Translates merchandise strategies for assigned departments into executable programs.
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 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 (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
