Business Operations Manager II (Growth Ops & Business Insights)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

BUSINESS OPERATIONS (GROWTH OPS) MANAGER II – WALMART CONNECT

Want to be part of Walmart’s digital advertising growth story? The Senior Manager II for Growth Operations, Search, is a critical leadership role that leverages your natural curiosity and inventive problem-solving talents to anticipate and work on the biggest opportunities in retail search advertising.

The Business Operations organization at the Walmart Connect (WMC) works across teams to drive cross-functional alignment and enable growth and scalability of the business. We are the internal problem solvers of the organization, and we lead and drive strategic decision-making and execution of strategic initiatives across the entire company. 

Office Locations: San Bruno, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Hoboken, NJ; Chicago, IL.

Relocation will be provided if needed.

You’ll Sweep Us Off Our Feet If

• You are someone who takes end-to-end ownership to independently lead your team and cross-functional partners through strategic high visibility operations projects.

• You have a track record of coming up with inventive and sustainable solutions for our biggest problems and opportunities.

• You showcase an ability to operate comfortably with ambiguity and lead the team through multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.

• You’ve shown an ability to build relationships and influence without authority.

• You’ve excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate and communicate at the level of detail depending on the audience.

• You are structured in your thought process and can break down large problems into smaller simpler problems.

• You’re someone who can execute, with strong discipline and organization skills; someone who gets things done.

• You have strong analytical skills to interpret insights coming from various initiatives and have a mindset for continuous learning and improvement.

• You’re stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale.

You’ll Make An Impact By

• Leading strategic growth projects - Incubate, launch, test and scale high impact growth operations projects initiatives pulling together stakeholders from across Walmart that drive growth and revenue for the Search advertising business

• Enabling data-driven transparency: Deliver high-impact quantitative and qualitative analysis and recommendations to business issues to leadership and stakeholders. Take complex business issues and solve them end-to-end through a combination of insightful analysis, consensus building

• Taking courageous ownership: Be accountable for hitting targets, milestones and overall project management of initiative

• Empowering culture of experimentation: Manage experiments pipeline and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to deliver amidst competing priorities and tight deadlines. You have an eye to identify issues and act urgently to address

• Improve operational efficiency – Anticipate, analyze, prioritize, and drive key problems and opportunities that improve search monetization and efficiency

• Building cross-functional relationships - Build productive and positive relationships across the organization at all levels to drive influence.

• Being adaptable: Be game to take on anything else fun that comes up

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred

• 6+years relevant work experience in relevant roles, growth, product, management consulting, business strategy.

• Ecommerce or retail or search advertising or media experience a plus.

• Self-starter & action oriented - who is willing to roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes

• Strategic Problem solver – who loves getting to the details to drive flawless execution but can pull out and see the forest from the trees

• High EQ Relationship-builder – who can influence people at all levels across a variety of job functions

• Data-driven - who is relentless about digging into the data to discover insights and understand not just “what” the data tells but the “why” behind the numbers

• Project manager – extremely organized individual with exceptional follow through and project management skills

• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Cross-functional Team player – one who can pull different people together to drive towards a common goal

• Comfortable with ambiguity and change

About Walmart Connect

• At Walmart, we enable the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. As primary stewards of our brand promise, “Save Money. Live Better,” we work alongside some of the most talented people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us. This is a unique opportunity to join a high growth business within the largest company in the world.  We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable – and we have Walmart’s sales data to prove it. Walmart Media Group wins when suppliers invest in digital media to drive growth; Walmart and our supplier partners win when your digital expertise helps sell more goods online and offline. Growth in our digital advertising business is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy.

• Walmart Connect (the digital advertising and ad tech business unit within Walmart) is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for our suppliers, merchants, stores, GMs, brand advertisers, and agencies. Our full funnel ad solutions leverage Walmart’s in-store and online data, extensive reach, and to provide measurable results for our clientele. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service; these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, engage with Walmart consumers, and convert Walmart consumers to shoppers.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor degree in business or related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Experience in related field

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America