Senior Director, Business Strategy - Consumables and Health & Wellness Sourcing Enablement

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

21d•$130,000 - $260,000

About The Position

The Senior Director, Consumables, Health & Wellness (CHW) Global Sourcing Enablement leads three functions: Strategy & Transformation, Value Execution, and Supply & Network Enablement. The role translates sourcing strategy into actionable priorities, strengthens the global supplier network, and delivers measurable value from opportunity identification through execution. It partners across Sourcing, Merchandising, Product Development, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, and international markets to accelerate growth, strengthen resilience, and make effective use of enterprise scale. The leader provides enterprise direction across the three functions, aligning strategy, investment, talent, and operating models. The position builds capabilities that help CHW Sourcing anticipate opportunities, execute faster, strengthen supplier networks, and establish lasting competitive advantage. It leads the refresh and implementation of the multi-year sourcing strategy and owns the strategic portfolio and transformation agenda, including priorities, value cases, governance, milestones, decision rights, ownership, and outcome visibility. The role develops cross-functional value programs and decision-ready recommendations using internal performance data and customer, category, supplier, commodity, and market intelligence. It removes barriers, accelerates decisions, and supports execution and value realization while business owners remain accountable for commercial delivery. It also owns the enterprise value pipeline and builds disciplined performance tracking to turn opportunities into financial results. For Supply & Network Enablement, the leader builds advanced network models and develops a resilient, diversified, competitive supplier network. The work covers supplier development and readiness, onboarding, geographic diversification, direct imports, capacity planning, risk mitigation, cross-market supplier leverage, assortment sharing, and network optimization. The leader also builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, defines clear ways of working and accountability, influences senior stakeholders, and fosters ownership, continuous improvement, collaboration, and measurable results.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or a related field and 7 years of experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or a related area; alternatively, 9 years of experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or a related area.
3 years of supervisory experience.
10+ years of relevant experience leading complex strategic, analytical, technology, or transformation agendas, as stated in the experience qualifications.
Experience leading enterprise strategy, sourcing transformation, technology strategy, data and analytics, network optimization, supply chain strategy, consulting, or a related discipline.
Experience shaping and delivering multi-year strategies and transformation portfolios across complex, global, cross-functional organizations.
Ability to translate between executives, business operators, product teams, and functional experts.
Strong business and financial acumen, including value-case development, investment prioritization, performance measurement, and risk trade-off decisions.
Experience driving adoption of new tools, processes, and operating models at scale.
Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams and influencing senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

MBA or related advanced degree.
Experience in retail, consumables, health and wellness, consumer products, private brands, global sourcing, or complex supplier networks.
Experience partnering with executive leadership on enterprise transformation, operating model improvements, and cross-market sourcing initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to convert strategic opportunities into sustained business results at scale.
Experience working on cross-functional teams or projects.
Master’s degree, including in Computer Science, Supply Chain, or Transportation.

Responsibilities

Provide enterprise leadership across Strategy & Transformation, Value Execution, and Supply & Network Enablement, aligning strategy, investment, talent, and operating models.
Lead activation and ongoing refresh of CHW’s multi-year sourcing strategy, aligning priorities with enterprise objectives, customer value, growth, resilience, and competitive advantage.
Own the strategic portfolio and transformation agenda, establishing priorities, value cases, governance, milestones, decision rights, ownership, and visibility into outcomes.
Incubate, lead, and scale cross-functional value programs, including Sourcing Waves, and translate opportunities into roadmaps, investment recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
Synthesize performance data and customer, category, supplier, commodity, and external-market signals into decision-ready recommendations for senior leaders.
Partner across functions, departments, and markets to remove barriers, accelerate decisions, and drive implementation and value realization while business owners retain commercial accountability.
Advise senior leaders on sourcing, supplier, network, and investment decisions using market intelligence, supplier insights, business performance, and customer needs.
Own the enterprise value pipeline and identify, prioritize, and track opportunities to improve cost, profitability, productivity, and sourcing effectiveness.
Identify incremental value through cross-market sourcing, supplier leverage, commodity strategies, competitive intelligence, and cost benchmarking.
Build and develop a multidisciplinary team spanning strategy, analytics, data, RFX/bid execution, network optimization, technology, transformation, and business translation.
Redefine human and AI work so technology can handle more data aggregation and routine analysis while associates focus on strategy, supplier relationships, negotiation, innovation, and judgment.
Establish value tracking, performance management, and accountability to ensure opportunities produce realized financial results.
Partner with sourcing and merchandising leaders to prioritize high-impact initiatives and accelerate value delivery.
Build and scale network models evaluating origins, suppliers, capacity and capability, transportation, lead times, inventory, direct-import flows, cost, quality, and risk.
Advance a resilient, diversified, and competitive global supplier network through supplier development, capability building, and strategic network optimization.
Lead supplier readiness, onboarding, geographic diversification, direct-import, capacity-planning, and risk-mitigation initiatives.
Unlock enterprise scale through cross-market supplier leverage, assortment sharing, and strategic sourcing opportunities.
Translate supplier and network strategies into executable plans that improve cost, speed, capacity, and supply continuity.
Build, develop, and inspire high-performing teams across Strategy & PMO, Value Enablement, and Supply & Network Enablement.
Establish ways of working, decision rights, and accountability that connect strategy, functional teams, and execution.
Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to align priorities, challenge existing practices, and accelerate transformation.
Foster ownership, continuous improvement, collaboration, and measurable results.

Benefits

Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
Short- and long-term disability.
Company discounts.
Military Leave Pay.
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
PTO and/or PPTO usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Live Better U paid education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.