(USA) Senior Manager, Business Strategy
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Business Strategy will help shape and communicate our network and automation strategy across markets. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, operations, technology and capital planning, translating complex topics into clear narratives and recommendations for senior leaders. Working in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional environment, this leader will help the team stay ahead of a high volume of strategic priorities, leadership forums and emerging business needs. Our team shapes network and automation strategy across Walmart’s markets, collaborating across businesses and functions to translate strategy into execution. Operating in a dynamic environment, we partner with teams to build and scale capabilities that enhance service for customers, members, and associates. Driven by data, technology, and automation, we make the network more connected, efficient, and responsive. We value curiosity, collaboration, sound judgment, and leadership that moves swiftly, works across boundaries, and converts complex opportunities into measurable outcomes, supporting Walmart’s commitment to operational excellence and innovation.
Requirements
- Strategic thinking. Ability to structure complex problems and develop fact-based recommendations.
- Executive communication. Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills for senior leadership audiences.
- Cross-functional collaboration. Experience aligning partners across functions, business units and markets.
- Analytical skills. Ability to synthesize information and connect insights to business decisions.
- Priority management. Ability to manage multiple workstreams while maintaining quality and accuracy.
- Business judgment. Ability to assess context, tradeoffs and implications of strategic choices.
- Execution. Demonstrated ability to produce clear, complete, leadership-ready work products.
- 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
Responsibilities
- Develop strategic narratives.
- Translate network, automation and market priorities into clear recommendations for leadership.
- Create executive materials.
- Develop presentations, papers and decision materials for strategic reviews and capital approval forums.
- Analyze complex questions.
- Evaluate quantitative and qualitative inputs, alternatives, tradeoffs and business implications.
- Partner across functions.
- Work with Finance, Operations, Technology and market leaders to align priorities and advance shared objectives.
- Support strategy development.
- Evaluate opportunities and translate long-term strategies into actionable plans.
- Connect portfolio priorities.
- Identify dependencies, risks and opportunities across initiatives, markets and capital plans.
- Address emerging needs.
- Define ad hoc questions, gather relevant information and deliver accurate, timely recommendations.
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 expense reimbursement
- Surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
