Senior Manager, Assortment Activation - Intimates

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

11d • $90,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for the end-to-end planning, governance, and oversight of high-impact modular and relay initiatives within the Intimates department. The Senior Manager will set timelines, stage gates, risk mitigation plans, and success measures to ensure execution quality and alignment with enterprise goals. They will also balance capacity and capability across execution teams, serve as a subject-matter expert on modular execution standards, and act as a strategic liaison between various departments. Additionally, this role involves mentoring managers and associates to build future leaders and foster a culture of continuous learning and execution excellence.

Requirements

• Modular execution and relay planning (P3–P4 proficiency)
• Strategic planning and resource management
• Cross-functional influence and change leadership
• KPI design, data analysis, and process optimization
• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in business, merchandising, operations, or related area and 5 years’ experience in retail operations, merchandising, or modular execution, including 2 years’ experience leading teams or cross-functional programs.
• Option 2: 7 years’ progressive experience in retail operations, merchandising, or modular execution, with demonstrated leadership of large-scale relay/mod initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across formats.
• Experience with enterprise modular planning and retail execution platforms.
• Master’s degree in business, merchandising, operations, or related area.

Responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end planning, governance, and oversight of high-impact modular and relay initiatives.
• Sets timelines, stage gates, risk mitigation plans, and success measures to ensure execution quality and alignment with enterprise goals.
• Escalates decisively to protect delivery and maintain execution integrity across formats.
• Balances capacity and capability across modular execution teams to meet dynamic business needs.
• Sequences work to align with business rhythms, seasonal effects, and store readiness.
• Absorbs operational complexity to enable senior leaders to focus on strategic priorities.
• Serves as a subject-matter expert on modular execution standards and best practices.
• Institutionalizes “single-best-way” methods and quality checks across store formats.
• Leads post-implementation reviews to codify learnings and scale improvements.
• Acts as a strategic connector between Insights, Space, Merchant teams, and leadership.
• Aligns decisions to execution realities and clarify roles, data needs, and decision rights.
• Owns coordination tasks to protect analytical capacity and allow analysts to focus on insights.
• Mentors managers and high-potential associates to build a bench of future leaders.
• Fosters a culture of continuous learning and execution excellence.
• Demonstrates leadership expectations through decision-making, team development, and cross-functional outcomes.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace.
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
• Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Benefits

• 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
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• 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.)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior