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Walmart (USA) Senior Manager, Business Strategy & New Initiatives, Walmart Local Marketplace in New York, New York
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Walmart Local Marketplace
The Walmart Local Marketplace team is a new venture at Walmart that is on a mission to revolutionize the local shopping experience. Walmart Local Marketplace partners with local retailers to make their businesses and products discoverable to customers and available for same-day in-store pickup and local delivery. Walmart Local Marketplace is dedicated to building and scaling innovative ways for customers to discover and engage with local sellers seamlessly, boosting product assortment and speed on site, helping local businesses grow, and powering our hyperlocal flywheel.
Job Description Summary
The Walmart Local Marketplace Strategy & Planning team is looking for a dynamic business leader to drive our strategic decision-making to support the growth and scale of our program. In this role you will lead our strategic planning processes, drive competitive insights and trend analysis, and evaluate new expansion opportunities, recommendations, and GTM strategies. This role involves high-level strategic thinking and executive communication, strong technical analytics skills, and process-oriented mindset to drive outcomes. Primary responsibilities include:
Strategic initiative scoping, sizing, and GTM
Build robust business cases to evaluate ad-hoc strategic business questions and category or market expansion opportunities like services and restaurants. Evaluate new opportunities within the context of Walmart's existing competitive position, platform, and capabilities to determine how to leverage and grow our strategic advantages.
Present recommendations for VP+ cross-functional audiences to gain buy in.
Develop GTM strategy and approach to operationalize pilots.
Competitive Insights
Drive industry research to evaluate trends and recommendations for the Walmart Local Marketplace program.
Evaluate and implement competitive data sources to support insights and ongoing processes.
Strategic Planning
Support WBR, MBR reporting processes to monitor progress against goals and surface actionable insights.
Support long-term planning cycles, guiding tops-down alignment for OKRs, goals, and bottoms-up assumptions supporting future growth.
Develop executive materials (e.g. white papers) to articulate strategic vision and support cross-functional alignment.
You Will Be Successful If
You're a motivated self-starter with exceptional technical skills. You're data driven and leverage insights to make informed and impactful decisions. You are adept at storytelling through data to influence business strategy, gain stakeholder buy-in and drive outcomes
You're passionate about retail consumer technology and the future state of marketplace businesses and industry dynamics
You're a strategic problem solver. You are able to break down complex and ambiguous issues, formulating and testing hypothesis, and developing and communicating succinct recommendations
You employ first principles thinking to develop frameworks for decision making. You build trust quickly and are an effective communicator. You are able to lead complex initiatives across various functions and stakeholders
You're able to operate both tops-down to support strategic direction and decisions, and bottoms-up to support execution and optimization
You have strong executive presence and have experience developing exec-level materials
You'll Make an Impact by
Setting the strategic direction for the Local Marketplace program and support decision making for the Local Marketplace leadership team to drive growth and expansion
Exhibiting a growth mindset and ability to operate in ambiguous environments in a highly matrixed org
Leading with influence and becoming an invaluable thought partner to internal stakeholders by communicating top priorities, challenges, and risks, articulating the "why" behind it all, and rooting recommendations firmly in data.
What you will need:
7+ years related experience in Consulting, Finance, Business Operations, Strategy, or related field (MBA preferred)
Experience in consumer-focused retail or ecommerce / marketplace environment
Proven track record of leading market research to drive insights and develop strategic frameworks, business cases, and recommendations
Excellent critical thinking and communication skills (written and verbal) with experience and comfort presenting to upper-level leadership
Analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions. Experience with Tableau, Looker, and proficiency in writing complex and efficient SQL queries to extract data.
Competence in managing core business management and governance processes
Problem solving creativity and flexibility in the face of change, obstacles, competing demands and priorities. You can work seamlessly in a fast-paced environment, managing several priorities and staying organized throughout
If you are passionate about shaping the future of local ecommerce at Walmart and possess the skills and experience mentioned above, we invite you to join our team and be a key driver of our success.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart .
The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00-$216,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 4 years' experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area OR 6 years' experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Leading cross-functional teams, Supervisory experience
Primary Location...
250 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013-1006, United States of America
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.