(USA) Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management - Freight Forwarding Expansion
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Freight Forwarding Expansion leads the strategy and launch of freight forwarding operations across Walmart’s growing global network. In this role, you’ll operationalize Walmart entities for freight forwarding services that we offer to marketplace sellers. You will influence organizational change, leverage your technical acumen, and work collaboratively with human resources, operations, product, legal, tax, and controllership teams. Your leadership will be pivotal in advancing Walmart’s operational excellence and sustaining competitive advantage in a high growth environment. The role is based in Bentonville and reports to the Senior Director of Global Logistics, Commercial Development. The team leads the development and growth of global logistics and international freight forwarding services, emphasizing convenience, reliability, and cost efficiency for marketplace sellers. It drives strategic initiatives in ocean and air freight consolidation while aligning commercial product roadmaps with Walmart’s systems strategy. Collaborating across supply chain, marketplace, product, and engineering functions, the team delivers enterprise-wide programs, manages profit and loss, and achieves financial goals. Focused on accountability, integrity, and operational excellence, the team enhances Walmart’s global logistics capabilities through innovative solutions and strong cross-functional partnerships.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or related field and 4 years’ experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area.
- 2 years’ experience with advanced functionality of Microsoft Office.
- Self-starter with a builder mindset, learning and iterating while managing complexity in large and multi-threaded programs.
- Ability to thrive at bringing order to ambiguity.
- Superior communication skills, flexibility, and ability to juggle multiple tasks to meet aggressive deadlines.
- Experience executing cross functional projects without direct authority over the teams involved.
- Background in ocean freight, freight forwarding, supply chain, and cross border logistics process design.
- Managed freight forwarding agent networks or wholly owned branches to ensure tax, accounting, compliance, and legal requirements are successfully delivered.
Nice To Haves
- Dispatch
- Fleet Management
- Network Analysis
- Retail Logistics Operations
- Masters: Business
- Masters: Logistics
- Masters: Supply Chain
- Project Management Professional - Certification
- Six Sigma - Certification
Responsibilities
- Build the strategy for freight forwarding global expansion and design the roadmap to exceed customer expectations.
- Deliver new market operations on-time, delighting new customers with freight forwarding services.
- Remove obstacles and prioritize critical operational capabilities that ensure compliant, safe, and successful services.
- Lead the execution of plans to launch new markets that drive sales and assortment growth.
- Partner with multiple stakeholders to reach consensus with speed.
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)
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
