Walmart Category Manager
About The Position
The Walmart Category Manager serves as a strategic partner to Walmart merchant teams, providing unbiased insights, actionable recommendations, and operational expertise to grow sales, market share, and shopper satisfaction. The role focuses on shelf and space planning, assortment optimization, category growth support, cross-functional execution, and performance tracking. The manager leads planogram development and modular relay planning with Walmart buyers, executes modular updates and transitions using planning software, and develops fact-based recommendations that balance space, assortment productivity, and shopper needs. The role also builds strategic item assortments aligned with Walmart’s omni-channel strategy and uses retail and market insights to inform decisions. The position partners with merchants, buying teams, replenishment, suppliers, Walmart operations, and field teams to support effective modular execution and in-store activation. It tracks modular performance and makes continuous improvements to support sales and shopper satisfaction.
Requirements
- Proficiency with JDA, ProSpace, Shelf Edge, and space planning tools, plus Retail Link and Scintilla/Luminate.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver modulars that balance Walmart’s goals with shopper needs.
- Strong interpersonal skills for partnering with Walmart buyers and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to translate technical shelf planning recommendations into clear business cases.
- Proven experience working with Walmart as a Category Manager, Category Advisor, or in a similar role.
- Storytelling capabilities and PowerPoint proficiency.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of the baby industry.
Responsibilities
- Lead planogram development and modular relay planning in partnership with Walmart buyers.
- Execute modular updates and transitions using JDA, Shelf Edge, and space planning software.
- Ensure modular recommendations are fact-based and balance space, assortment productivity, and shopper needs.
- Build strategic item assortments aligned with Walmart’s omni-channel strategy.
- Identify duplication, assortment gaps, and new item opportunities to support modular efficiency.
- Partner with Walmart merchants to deliver fact-based shelf solutions that grow category sales and share.
- Apply insights from Retail Link, Scintilla/Luminate, and Circana/IRI to inform assortment and modular decisions.
- Work with buying teams, replenishment, and suppliers to ensure modular execution excellence.
- Support in-store activation and execution by partnering with Walmart operations and field teams.
- Report on modular performance and make continuous improvements to drive shopper satisfaction and sales.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
