(USA) Store Manager - Division 1/Neighborhood Market

Walmart•Columbus, GA

3d•$95,000 - $145,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Store Manager leads the facility’s financial performance, operations, sales, customer service, associate development, community engagement, and execution of business plans. The role ensures sales and profit goals are achieved by managing expenses, developing corrective plans when needed, overseeing budgets, and considering economic trends and community needs. The Store Manager directs the management team and communicates with associates about facility operations, merchandising, and company direction, while ensuring effective merchandise presentation, pricing, signing, in-stock conditions, and inventory levels. The role models and reinforces customer service standards, resolving customer concerns within company guidelines. It also upholds the Open Door Policy by listening to associates, researching concerns, and providing resolutions. The Store Manager supports community outreach and sustainability efforts, represents the company to community organizations, and encourages associates and managers to serve as community members. The position oversees associate supervision and development, including hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, setting expectations, evaluating performance, recognizing contributions, and coaching. It drives business plans and projects by identifying needs, setting priorities and performance standards, removing obstacles, allocating resources, measuring progress, and adapting plans. The Store Manager is also responsible for ensuring the success of the Academy training environment and store standards. This includes supporting trainees and Academy associates, advising on curriculum, providing job-shadowing opportunities, promoting customer service, acting as an operations and culture champion, and participating in talent and succession planning across supported markets. The role promotes Walmart’s values, ethics, compliance, belonging, continuous improvement, and customer-first approach. The position is based at 4909 Buena Vista Rd, Columbus, Georgia. The annual salary range is $95,000–$145,000, with potential performance bonuses and applicable pay differentials. The posting describes benefits including health coverage, financial benefits, paid time off, disability coverage, discounts, education assistance, and other programs.

Requirements

At least 4 years of general management experience, including financial accountability.
At least 4 years of experience supervising 50 or more exempt and non-exempt associates or employees, including performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing.
Successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments.
For facilities that sell firearms, successfully complete a firearms-specific Criminal Background Check and Firearms Authorized Training.
For facilities that sell only ammunition and have applicable state-specific requirements, hold a current state-issued Certificate of Eligibility.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University.
Experience running a fresh or dry grocery area.

Responsibilities

Uphold the Open Door Policy by listening to associate concerns, investigating issues, applying company policies and procedures, and providing resolutions.
Lead community outreach, maintain relationships with community groups, represent the company externally, and promote company-sponsored programs and sustainability efforts.
Drive facility financial performance by achieving sales and profit goals, controlling expenses, correcting deficiencies, overseeing budgets, and considering economic trends and community needs.
Model and guide customer service practices and ensure customer needs, complaints, and issues are resolved within company guidelines.
Direct facility operations and communicate with management and hourly associates about operations, merchandising, and company direction.
Drive sales through effective merchandise presentation, pricing, signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting, forecasting, and assessment of economic trends and community needs.
Ensure Academy training environment and store standards, support trainees and Academy staff, advise on curriculum, provide job-shadowing opportunities, and participate in talent and succession planning.
Execute business plans and projects by identifying needs, communicating priorities, removing barriers, providing resources, setting and measuring performance standards, and adjusting plans.
Supervise and develop associates through selection, training, mentoring, duty assignment, performance expectations and evaluations, recognition, coaching, and promotion of belonging.
Promote company policies, procedures, mission, values, ethics, and compliance, and support the Open Door Policy.
Evaluate the effectiveness of plans and initiatives, consult stakeholders, apply suggestions for improved efficiency and cost effectiveness, and support community outreach events.
Build high-performing teams, develop talent, foster collaborative relationships, communicate effectively, and recognize associates’ contributions.
Make data-informed decisions, put customers first, support continuous improvement and adoption of new technologies, and uphold Walmart’s values and regenerative-company goals.

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase program.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave.
Parental leave and family care leave.
Bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Company discounts.
Military Leave Pay.
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
Performance-based bonus awards.
PTO and/or PPTO that may be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.