Senior Manager I, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives (Food, Consumables, Health & Wellness)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer services.

The Senior Manager I, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives (FCHW) is responsible for overseeing, tracking, and operationalizing key growth initiatives across the Food, Consumables, Health & Wellness (FCHW) segment. They work across Product Management, Programs, Operations, Legal, Compliance and other functional partners to assess, incubate and scale/commercialize new business models for FCHW. If you are passionate about figuring out new ventures and business incubation, are a project management rock star, and looking to help scale a growing business, this opportunity is for you!

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You are customer/seller obsessed, relationship driven, and thrive in constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• You are a first-principles thinker who is both a strategist and a builder.
• You have strong problem solving and analytical skills and can present quantitative and qualitative analyses, assessing metrics related to the business and partnering with commercial leads to gain expert insights.
• You can simplify complex and ambiguous topics as well as communicate in a compelling manner.
• You can identify/assess seller pain points and recognize functionality gaps that prevent business growth.
• You can organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously with flexibility to shift priorities.
• You are results-oriented and enable connectedness, speed and agility across the organization; support the translation of ideas between commercial and operational/technology teams into actions with accelerated delivery timeframes.
• You have the ability to navigate left-right (across topics) and up-down (strategy/details).
• You have high standards with a proven track record of leadership, taking ownership and holding project contributors accountable to produce exceptional results.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Owning business outcomes – be directly responsible for identifying, launching, and leading our biggest bets in new business models.

• Driving strategic initiatives critical to FCHW growth: Being the voice and advocate for the FCHW business, assessing and prioritizing key initiatives that will set Walmart Marketplace as an industry leader. Connect the dots and resolves issues as they are discovered.

• Building strategic relationships: Maximizing relationships with new and existing internal and external stakeholders. Driving large, complex change efforts and achieving results through influence and persuasion. Build effective ways of working across teams and drive collaboration and coordination across functions.

• Operating with excellence: Identify opportunity areas that create efficiency, remove obstacles and improve business processes. Setting an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others. Champion change and evolution, persuading through use of data and facts; demonstrate sufficient gravitas; inspire and motivate others.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Business Management, Business Operations, Strategy & Planning, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, eCommerce operations, Marketplace or related area.
• Strong analytical skills with deep experience across commercial and technology functions, business performance analyses, and business case development
• Ability to distill complex business issues and strategies to highlight insights and actionable recommendations in a concise and persuasive manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional team to drive business positive outcomes.
• Assertive, adaptable and demonstrates initiative in a fast-paces environment with competing priorities.
• Project Management and/or Agile Methodologies Certification.

Benefits & Perks

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(K) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO multiple health plans, and much more.

We’re virtual 

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the workplace of the future by making a transition to virtual work for parts of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose. 

Equal Opportunity Employer
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, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Who We Are
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field and 3 years’ experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel
Merchandising, or a related area. Option 2: 5 years’ experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related
area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area

Primary Location...

121 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5989, United States of America