Senior Operations Manager

Walton Enterprises is seeking a skilled, highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual to join the team as a Senior Operations Manager. The ideal teammate will have the demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple complex, cross-functional projects, coordinate priorities across teams, anticipate challenges, and translate organizational priorities into action in a fast-paced environment.

The Senior Operations Manager plays a key role in helping the Walton Personal Philanthropy Group (WPPG) successfully plan, coordinate, and execute its operational priorities. Working closely with the Deputy Director of Operations, this position leads projects, coordinates work across multiple teams and helps ensure the organization’s initiatives are completed efficiently and effectively.

This role serves as the central point of coordination for many of WPPG’s highest-priority initiatives, working across WPPG and with cross-functional Walton Enterprises departments, including Accounting, Tax, Legal, Technology, and other shared services teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and keep work moving forward. The Senior Operations Manager also supports process improvement efforts, maintains operational documentation and resources, and helps implement technology and systems that improve how the organization works.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional organizer and project manager who enjoys bringing structure to complex work. They are comfortable managing multiple priorities, highly collaborative, and keeping projects on track in a fast-paced environment. They are proactive, adaptable, and naturally look for opportunities to improve processes, solve problems, and help others succeed. Most importantly, they are someone leadership can rely on to turn priorities into action and ensure important work gets done.

You will lead and coordinate cross-functional projects and operational initiatives from planning through completion, translating leadership priorities into actionable work plans and keeping teams aligned on timelines, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables. You will also support process improvement, maintain operational resources and documentation, and help implement tools and systems that increase efficiency, visibility, and consistency across WPPG.

• Lead and collaboratively manage multiple cross-functional projects from planning through completion, ensuring work is organized, priorities are clear, and deliverables are completed on time.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, dependencies, and decision points while adjusting sequencing as priorities or organizational needs change.
• Monitor the status of multiple projects, identify risks or barriers, and recommend solutions to keep work moving forward.
• Provide leadership with regular updates on project progress, priorities, risks, and key decisions.

• Translate leadership priorities into actionable work plans and coordinate execution across multiple teams.
• Coordinate the sequencing of work required to achieve WPPG’s goals and major initiatives.
• Manage WPPG’s annual reporting cadence, including key milestones, required inputs, review periods, and deadlines.
• Support operational readiness for new initiatives, processes, systems, and organizational changes.

• Serve as a central point of coordination for WPPG initiatives requiring collaboration across WPPG and Walton Enterprises cross-functional teams, including Accounting, Tax, Legal, Technology, and other shared-services functions.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, dependencies, timelines, and decision points across participating teams.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions and…