Senior Manager, Automation Engineering, Store Benefit
About The Position
The Supply Chain Automation Engineering – Store Benefit team sits at the intersection of automation engineering, store operations, workforce management, and finance. The team’s mission is to ensure automation investments translate into real, measurable, and sustainable labor and operational benefits in stores. We partner closely with Workforce Management, Store Operations, and Supply Chain partners to align automation capabilities with labor planning, execution readiness, and financial commitments. The team is responsible for valuing automation initiatives, sequencing work to maximize store impact, and ensuring benefits are realized accurately and on time. This team operates across Ambient and Perishable networks, using data, analytics, and AI‑enabled tools to close gaps between automation delivery and store outcomes—while building repeatable processes that scale across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Combine project management rigor with analytical depth, driving complex initiatives from concept through execution while managing timelines, risks, and cross‑team dependencies with confidence.
- Enthusiastically curious, enjoy solving complex problems, and are passionately customer-centric
- Communicate complex topics simply, earning trust with store partners and senior leaders through clear storytelling backed by data.
- Develop systems, dashboards, and processes that make store benefit delivery repeatable, transparent, and scalable, not hero‑dependent.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 4 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
- 6 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
- 2 years’ supervisory experience.
Nice To Haves
- Masters: Computer Engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross‑functional automation initiatives using strong project management discipline—clear milestones, owners, risks, and dependencies—to ensure automation and labor changes land on time and as intended
- Translate validated business problems, store needs, value drivers, and dependencies into clear, outcome‑based requirements for Automation Capabilities and Design teams.
- Support delivery of committed store labor and operational benefits by ensuring automation initiatives are properly valued, scoped, and enabled
- Contribute to valuation, prioritization, and sequencing of sortation work tied to store benefit
- Leverage AI‑enabled analytics (Python, SQL, Dataiku, Copilot) to forecast benefit, run scenarios, and proactively surface risks.
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for store partners and senior leadership.
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
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
