USA) Director, Supply Chain Management

Position: (USA) Director, Supply Chain Management
Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The Director, Supply Chain Management, leads the strategic direction and execution of supply chain operations to optimize product flow from suppliers to stores, ensuring alignment with sales, inventory, and profitability goals. This role drives continuous improvement initiatives, fosters collaboration among stakeholders, and manages external partnerships to enhance service levels and operational efficiency. By leveraging data analytics and innovative methodologies, the director supports cost reduction and process optimization while cultivating a high-performing workforce committed to integrity, customer focus, and sustainable business practices.

About the team:

The team leads supply chain execution by optimizing product flow from suppliers to stores, enhancing sales, inventory health, and profitability. It collaborates with cross-functional partners to resolve constraints and manage disruptions, ensuring strategic goals are met. The team communicates operational expectations to suppliers and transportation partners, addressing performance and driving accountability. Focused on continuous improvement, it designs and implements efficient processes that reduce waste and costs while improving service levels.

Leveraging end-to-end supply chain and lean methodologies, the team advances operational performance and supports the company's commitment to excellence and innovation.

What you'll do:

* Direct supply chain execution to optimize product flow from suppliers to stores, ensuring alignment with sales, inventory, and profitability goals.

* Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and resolve order exceptions, disruptions, and constraints impacting supply chain performance.

* Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify workflows using lean methodologies.

* Manage relationships with external partners, overseeing compliance, performance measurement, and issue resolution.

* Develop and implement strategic plans based on business objectives, customer needs, and cost analysis.

* Foster talent development through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to build a skilled workforce.

* Promote integrity, accountability, and a customer-focused culture across teams and partnerships.

What you'll bring:

* Extensive experience in supply chain management with a focus on optimizing product flow and inventory profitability.

* Proven leadership skills in directing cross-functional teams and managing supplier and transporter relationships.

* Strong ability to analyze operational processes, identify constraints, and implement effective resolutions.

* Expertise in developing and executing supply chain strategies aligned with business objectives and cost reduction goals.

* Excellent communication skills to convey expectations and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

* Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of lean methodologies.

* Ability to develop talent and foster a high-performing, ethical work environment.

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 leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see  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…