Senior Manager, Store Space Design

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

10d • $80,000 - $155,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for developing new design solutions and adapting existing store designs by interpreting business strategies from key stakeholders. The Senior Manager will create design solutions that drive sales, profitability, and reduce expenses, while enhancing the customer experience and maximizing operational efficiencies. This includes collaborating across various company areas like Merchandising, Realty, Marketing, and Operations. The role also involves developing and maintaining design guidelines, ensuring successful project implementation for strategic business units, and driving the execution of business plans and projects. Additionally, the position provides supervision and development opportunities for associates, promotes company policies and values, and ensures business needs are met through continuous improvement and community outreach.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in drafting technology, computer aided drafting, drafting and design technology, architectural design, or related field and 2 years experience in retail store design or related field OR 4 years experience in retail store design or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management
• Retail Industry
• Retail Store Design or Layout
• Supervising Associates

Responsibilities

• Develops new design solutions and the adaptation of existing store designs by interpreting business strategies presented from key stakeholders for example Merchandising Operations Realty creating design solutions based on new ideas generating design solutions that drive sales profitability and reduce expenses and removing or enhancing solutions that are detrimental to the business coordinating the development of new ideas leading design sessions enhancing the customer experience through consideration of customer needs and expectations maximizing operational efficiencies and space allocation and collaborating across various areas of the company for example Merchandising Realty Marketing Operations
• Develops and maintains design guidelines and frameworks for the team by creating consistent language and communication for project requirements ensuring the project requirements fit design guidelines and developing design project requirements
• Ensures successful project implementation for a strategic business unit by reviewing design plans monitoring the implementation within store pilots ensuring business requirements are met ensuring design guidelines are followed identifying opportunities recommending improvements and approving implementation to scale design
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs developing and communicating business plans and priorities removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance providing resources identifying performance standards measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly developing contingency plans and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training mentoring assigning duties building a teambased work environment establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations providing recognition and rewards coaching for success and improvement and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace
• Promotes and supports company policies procedures mission values and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application ensuring compliance with them and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans programs and initiatives consulting with business partners managers coworkers or other key stakeholders soliciting evaluating and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and costeffectiveness and participating in and supporting community outreach events
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and crossfunctionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble selfaware honest and transparent
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risktaking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 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
• Paid time off
• Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

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