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

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

18d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director, CHW Sourcing Enablement leads three functions—Strategy & Transformation, Value Execution, and Supply & Network Enablement—to translate Consumables, Health & Wellness (CHW) Sourcing strategy into actionable priorities, strengthen the global supplier network, and deliver measurable enterprise value. The role partners across Sourcing, Merchandising, Product Development, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, and international markets to accelerate growth, resilience, and sourcing effectiveness. The position leads activation and refresh of the multi-year sourcing strategy and owns the strategic portfolio and transformation agenda, including priorities, value cases, governance, milestones, decision rights, and outcome tracking. It develops repeatable cross-functional value programs and decision-ready recommendations for senior leaders, using business performance, customer, supplier, commodity, and external-market insights. The role also advises on sourcing, supplier, network, and investment decisions and supports disciplined execution while business owners retain accountability for commercial delivery. The Senior Director owns the enterprise value pipeline and leads efforts to identify, prioritize, track, and realize opportunities that improve cost, profitability, productivity, and sourcing effectiveness. The role builds a multidisciplinary team, establishes performance management and accountability, and reshapes work so technology can handle more data aggregation and routine analysis while associates focus on strategy, supplier relationships, negotiation, innovation, and judgment. The role builds advanced supply and network models and advances a resilient, diversified, competitive global supplier network through supplier development, network optimization, supplier readiness, onboarding, geographic diversification, direct imports, capacity planning, and risk mitigation. It translates supplier and network strategies into executable plans that improve cost, speed, capacity, and supply continuity. The Senior Director also develops teams, establishes clear ways of working and decision rights, 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; or 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.
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.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
Strategic thinking and the ability to simplify complexity and translate vision into execution.
Understanding of global sourcing, supplier ecosystems, network optimization, and the drivers of cost, quality, capacity, and risk.
Ability to lead transformation, challenge existing ways of working, and drive change with speed and discipline.
Ability to balance transformation with disciplined execution and move from concept to scalable capability and sustained adoption.
Ability to develop talent, create accountability, and inspire teams to deliver results across functional 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.
Build and scale capabilities that help CHW Sourcing anticipate opportunities, accelerate execution, strengthen global supplier networks, and deliver competitive advantage.
Activate, refresh, and integrate CHW’s multi-year sourcing strategy in alignment 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 outcome visibility.
Develop and scale cross-functional value programs, including Sourcing Waves, to turn strategic opportunities into roadmaps, investment recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
Synthesize performance, customer, category, supplier, commodity, and external-market information into decision-ready recommendations for senior leaders.
Partner across functions and markets to remove barriers, accelerate decisions, and support disciplined execution and value realization.
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 handles more data aggregation and routine analysis while associates focus on strategy, supplier relationships, negotiation, innovation, and judgment.
Establish disciplined value tracking, performance management, and accountability to ensure opportunities deliver 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, competitive global supplier network through supplier development, capability building, and strategic network optimization.
Lead supplier readiness, onboarding, geographic diversification, direct imports, 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 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 connecting 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

Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase plan.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave.
Parental leave.
Family care leave.
Bereavement leave.
Jury duty leave.
Voting leave.
Short-term 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, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
Performance-based bonus awards, including annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Stock compensation may be available for certain positions.