(USA) Senior Director, Merchandising- Home Décor and Strategic Initiatives
About The Position
As Senior Director, Merchandising for Home Décor and Strategic Initiatives, you will lead a growth portfolio within Walmart Home and help shape how the organization competes in the market. You will own the P&L for high-growth Hard Décor categories, including decorative accessories, lighting, and mirrors, as well as assigned businesses. You will set commercial strategy, curate distinctive assortments, build supplier partnerships, and lead merchants to deliver customer growth, sales, profit, and market share. You will also advance style and brand priorities by translating vision into actionable plans and aligning cross-functional partners. The Home Décor team supports Walmart Home’s vision to lead in style. It manages categories such as décor, lighting, rugs, wall art, and seasonal Home Pad, shaping customer experiences in a dynamic, trend-driven environment with significant seasonal demand. Through trend analysis, assortment planning, and cross-functional collaboration, the team delivers style and value to customers and supports sustained growth across the Home merchandising portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field and 5 years of experience in merchandising or a related field, or 7 years of experience in merchandising or a related field.
- 4 years of experience with direct responsibility for profit and loss (P&L) statements.
- Ability to identify customer opportunities, create differentiated assortments, and deliver sustainable P&L growth.
- Ability to connect customer insights, market dynamics, style trends, and financial performance into a growth agenda.
- Understanding of how assortment, brands, storytelling, marketing, digital, store execution, and seasonal activations shape customer perception.
- Ability to balance strategic ambition with disciplined execution and build capabilities and processes that remove obstacles.
- Ability to align senior executives, merchant teams, creative partners, operators, and cross-functional stakeholders around shared outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Merchandising or related field experience.
- Supervisory experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead Home Décor’s multi-year growth strategy across decorative accessories, lighting, mirrors, and assigned categories.
- Own sales, profit, inventory, customer, and market share outcomes while anticipating risks and identifying opportunities.
- Lead Home Pad strategy and execution, creating integrated seasonal assortments, presentations, and activations across channels.
- Build distinctive assortments and customer experiences that strengthen style sentiment, attract customers, and deepen engagement.
- Lead key Home style initiatives to elevate the assortment and strengthen customer consideration.
- Lead cross-functional partnerships and supplier relationships to speed trend adoption, sharpen quality and value, and deliver differentiated solutions.
- Lead merchants and develop talent by setting expectations, building accountability, empowering ownership, and inspiring teams.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase.
- 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 that may be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Walmart-paid education through Live Better U, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
