Manager, Business Strategy; Imports

Position Summary

The Manager, Business Strategy for Walmart Imports owns benchmarking activities for the organization. They will research both traditional and non-traditional seller alternatives for cross border shipping, normalize the data to generate insights as to seller needs and priorities, and work to understand how the industry has adapted to prioritize meeting those shipper needs. The work will provide a critical voice of the seller and voice of the industry input to program and product roadmaps, and tech/operational priorities.

This role involves engaging with leaders across Marketplace, Global Transportation Logistics, Trade Compliance, Supply Chain, Voice of Seller, and others to develop, align, and articulate strategic points of view based on past, present, and future market movements. The Manager, Business Strategy will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop recommendations to senior leadership for continued growth and improvement of our program.

Day in the life:

• Benchmark best-in-class seller alternatives to the Walmart Imports offering, overall and within each service and ship mode.
• Collaborate directly with program and strategy leaders to develop and refine the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Represent Marketplace supply chain team in cross-functional forums ensuring MP organization requirements are known and aligned.
• Develop mechanisms to capture and maintain market landscape information to inform and educate internal stakeholders of current and projected market conditions.
• Provide input to annual and long-range planning to ensure Walmart Imports remains a market leader.
• Lead by example and drive continuous improvement of the benchmarking processes, including annual goal setting, performance monitoring, and strategic initiatives.
• Work with key product and program leads to set the roadmap to incorporate benchmarking data with clear entitlement for launches to optimize engagement, utilization, and penetration to reach business objectives.

• Minimum Qualifications — Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 3 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or relevant area OR 5 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.
• Preferred Qualifications — Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is desirable; MBA is highly desirable. Experience (2-5 years) in research, strategy and/or business consulting. Experience in eCommerce, online marketplaces (ideally in transportation, compliance, or supply chain functions). Strong data analytics skills, including SQL writing and/or AI prompting. Exceptional communication, written and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to senior executives.

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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. For information about PTO, see One.
  
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• 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.

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Location:

702 SW 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

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