USA) Manager, Operations

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The Manager, New Market Expansion is a critical role within Data Ventures responsible for supporting market expansion initiatives and helping drive successful readiness, launch, and transition activities across new markets and banners. This role serves as a key partner across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Training, Account Management, and Business Development teams to help operationalize expansion efforts and support scalable growth.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Operations, this role will support market or banner readiness activities, coordinate expansion work streams, implement operational processes, and contribute to the successful scaling of Data Ventures products and capabilities across global markets.

The New Markets Expansion team leads market exploration, discovery, and readiness frameworks to support startup scaling and deliver comprehensive expansion outcomes for Data Ventures. This team manages multiple operational work streams, driving operational planning, resource allocation, and process improvements to enhance business efficiency and successful launch through integration lab orating cross-functionally, they develop innovative solutions and tools to meet business objectives while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders.

Focused on operational excellence, the team ensures timely execution of initiatives, supports continuous learning, and fosters accountability to achieve measurable results aligned with company goals.

• Support cross-functional readiness planning, launch preparation and market activation efforts.
• Translate expansion plans into actionable work streams, coordinate activities across teams, and ensure operational objectives are achieved.
• Develop and implement operational processes, readiness tools, launch playbooks, and best practices that enable repeatable and efficient market expansion.
• Support efforts to identify operational gaps, track value-driving requirements, coordinate readiness actions, and facilitate successful transition into ongoing operations.
• Partner with local stakeholders to understand requirements, coordinate implementation activities, and support localization efforts while maintaining alignment with broader organizational standards.
• Identify trends and opportunities across business and operational insights, contribute recommendations to inform expansion decisions.

• Build relationships on trust, understand different perspectives, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Highly organized, intellectually curious, and able to synthesize information into actionable next steps.
• Experience supporting market expansion, business launches, operational transformations, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong judgment and ability to balance global standards with local market requirements.
• Experience in ambiguous environments to help create structure and momentum where needed.
• Take feedback to action by incorporating stakeholder input and market learnings into operational improvements.
• Effectively influence and collaborate with cross-functional partners without direct authority.
• Adapt quickly and can manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Energized by helping teams launch, scale, and continuously improve.

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…