(USA) Senior Manager, Business Strategy - Local Marketplace
About The Position
Walmart Local Marketplace is a new venture within Marketplace that enables local retailers across industries to participate in Walmart’s local commerce ecosystem. The Strategy & Planning team is looking for a dynamic business leader to drive our strategic decision-making to support the growth and scale of our program. In this role you will lead our long-range and annual strategic planning processes, team governance processes, create and project manage executive level presentation materials, and support ad-hoc strategic initiatives. This role involves high-level strategic thinking and executive communication, strong analytics skills, and process-oriented mindset to drive outcomes. By leveraging data and stakeholder insights, the Senior Manager delivers actionable recommendations to senior leadership, supports continuous learning, and champions a culture of accountability and high performance across the business.
Requirements
- 7+ years related experience in Consulting, Finance, Business Operations, Strategy, or related field (MBA preferred)
- Experience in consumer-focused retail or ecommerce / marketplace businesses
- Excellent critical thinking and communication skills (written and verbal) with experience and comfort presenting to upper-level leadership
- Data driven mindset and ability to story-tell with data
- Growth mindset and ability to operate in ambiguous environments in a highly matrixed org
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 4 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Leading cross-functional teams
- Supervisory experience
- Masters: Business Administration
Responsibilities
- Run team goal setting, annual planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes
- Lead team MBRs, QBRs, town halls, and ad hoc governance mechanisms
- Create executive level deliverables to facilitate decision-making.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships across business, product, finance, merchandising, analytics, and more to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Employ first principles thinking to develop frameworks for decision making.
- Operate both tops-down to support strategic direction and decisions, and bottoms-up to support execution and optimization
Benefits
- 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
- 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 is a 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
