(USA) Senior Manager, Innovations

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

10d • $110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Innovations – Quality & Safety helps Health & Wellness deliver safe, reliable, and scalable care by turning complex operational and safety challenges into measurable, data‑driven solutions. This role identifies opportunities across the Quality & Safety portfolio, designs and tests new approaches (from proof‑of‑concept through scaled deployment), and partners closely with business, product, and engineering teams to implement improvements that strengthen performance, reduce risk, and improve consistency. This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, building analytics‑enabled solutions, and leading cross‑functional initiatives that drive tangible outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience leading cross‑functional initiatives from concept to delivery in complex, fast‑moving environments.
• Strong analytical problem‑solving skills —able to turn messy problems into structured hypotheses, measurable tests, and scalable solutions.
• Ability to build executive‑ready narratives that connect data to decisions and clearly articulate tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Comfort partnering across business, product, engineering, and data teams; able to influence without authority.
• A continuous improvement mindset—curious, practical, and focused on outcomes over activity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Science, or related field and 4 years’ experience in program management, operations management, design innovation, financial analysis, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in program management, operations management, design innovation, financial analysis, or related area.
• 2 years’ experience using Microsoft Office.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Product management, analytics, development, or related experience within the technology field
• Project Management Masters: Science

Responsibilities

• Lead innovation design and solution development
• Identify and assess opportunities to improve how teams operate and deliver outcomes (e.g., reducing risk, improving reliability, strengthening performance).
• Translate business needs into clear solution concepts, partnering with stakeholders to evaluate feasibility, tradeoffs, and impact.
• Design and deliver solutions that can scale—using analytics, process improvements, and technology enablement to improve outcomes.
• Drive proof‑of‑concepts (POCs) and scale what works
• Determine the right test‑and‑learn approach, design pilots/POCs, and build the measurement plan needed to evaluate success.
• Partner with development teams to move successful concepts from POC to production, including requirements, validation, and readiness for broader rollout.
• Support enablement for adoption (communications, training needs, and partner readiness) to ensure solutions stick.
• Build analytics, insights, and visibility that accelerate decisions
• Create and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and analytical outputs that help teams prioritize work, monitor performance, and evaluate improvement initiatives.
• Measure impact using data‑driven approaches (e.g., pre/post analysis, trend monitoring), and translate results into clear recommendations.
• Enable data‑supported ways of working
• Help teams establish practical, repeatable methods for prioritization, root‑cause problem solving, and continuous improvement—using data to guide where attention will have the biggest impact.
• Lead cross‑functional execution
• Drive multiple workstreams by clarifying priorities, removing blockers, setting performance standards, tracking progress, and keeping stakeholders aligned.
• Communicate succinctly with senior leaders—sharing insights, recommendations, risks, and decisions needed to move forward.

Benefits

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive 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.

What This Job Offers

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