Senior Manager, Operations Expansion - Walmart Data Ventures

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Expansion Operations is a critical role within Data Ventures, serving as the connective tissue between Global Data Ventures and local market, banner, or business teams, ensuring successful expansion while balancing standardization with locally-specific requirements. This role will help drive readiness, engagement, and sustained value for large-scale business transformations, ensuring key user groups are prepared to successfully adopt new tools, workflows, and ways of working. This person will support merchants, internal associates, and external partners throughout discovery, deployment, and post-launch stabilization. They will support the engagement, communication, and readiness plans needed to enable successful launches at speed. The New Markets Expansion team drives market exploration and readiness to support startup scaling and deliver comprehensive expansion outcomes for Data Ventures. Managing multiple operational work streams, the team focuses on operational planning, resource allocation, and process improvements to enhance business efficiency and successful launch integration. Collaborating cross-functionally, they develop innovative solutions and tools aligned with business objectives. Committed to operational excellence, the team ensures timely execution, continuous learning, and accountability to achieve measurable results. Their success is reflected in launch completion, speed to profitability, integration efficiency, and leveraging learnings to accelerate future enterprise growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Operations, or related field and 3 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area.
1 year’s supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

Managing a budget, profit and loss statement, or relate financial process
Master’s degree in Business Administration or related field like (not limited to) project management, compliance, operations management, or related area
Project Management Certification Masters
Masters: Operations Management
Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification

Responsibilities

Oversee business and operational work streams to translate expansion strategies into executable change management initiatives; aligning stakeholders around priorities; and ensuring expansion objectives are successfully delivered.
Lead operational readiness activities across expansion opportunities by identifying business requirements, understanding impacts to user persona needs, communicating across stakeholder groups, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring successful activation.
Equip cross-functional teams with the right messaging, onboarding, and support approaches to help both internal and external users succeed.
Evaluate the effectiveness of current plans and initiatives; consulting cross-functionally to improve efficiency and effectiveness; and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
Ensure successful launch and integration through strategic stakeholder management.