(USA) Senior Manager, Operations - Transformation & Enablement (WMC International)

Wal-Mart.com USA • Hoboken, NJ

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Transformation and Enablement will lead central strategic workstreams to achieve key priorities for short- and long-term plans at WMC International and Sam’s Club MAP; cross-market and cross-functional ways of working and business connectivity, ultimately facilitating decision-making for executive audiences. This Senior Manager will absorb complex, evolving thoughts and data from several leaders to define clear, hypothesis-driven narratives and workstreams that clarify situations and present options or recommendations in an executive-friendly way. They will manage what needs to be decided or communicated for different audiences by synthesizing and sense checking inputs and taking accountability for end deliverables. Transformation and Enablement within the central Business Strategy & Operations organization of WMC International and Sam’s Club MAP helps shape the strategic direction and operating rhythm by translating complex problems into clear action plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5+ years of experience in strategy consulting and/or corporate strategy at large, matrixed organizations
• Experience within advertising or eCommerce preferred, especially at Walmart Connect
• Hypothesis-driven thinking to reach answers early, balanced with ability and patience to listen, communicate, and manage stakeholders
• Crisp, audience-focused communications skills to define complex situations and paths forward in an executive, understandable way
• Strong executive presence to engage effectively and push back with stakeholders that may have misalignment with a project or with other stakeholders
• Ability to operate independently and manage process proactively
• Ability to operate effectively in matrixed and evolving business environments
• 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

• Leadership of cross-functional task forces or projects
• Masters, Masters: Operations Management
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification

Responsibilities

• Lead central strategic workstreams to achieve key priorities for short- and long-term planning
• Disambiguate and drive path forward on multi-faceted business questions: Both proactively through pre-defined workstreams and as catcher on ad-hoc workstreams
• Drive alignment and accountability across stakeholders by defining clear workback plans and tracking inputs, action items, milestones, and execution progress
• Drive cross-market and cross-functional ways of working and business connectivity
• Define the right stakeholders/roles and partner with teams to diagnose key areas to solve for and develop objective hypotheses on what path forward options
• Manage iterations based on inputs from stakeholders, effectively taking people along on the journey

Benefits

• 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
• 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 (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

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