Assistant Quality Control Manager - Supply Chain

The Assistant Quality Control Manager - Supply Chain plays a critical role in ensuring product quality and safety throughout the supply chain. This position involves collaborating with internal and external partners to maintain compliance with regulatory standards, conducting audits, and implementing quality control measures. The role requires expertise in food safety, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement to identify risks and drive operational excellence.

The successful candidate will support continuous improvement initiatives, coach team members on quality practices, and contribute to maintaining high standards that align with organizational goals.

The team leads the development of new leadership structures in quality control to enhance coverage and decision-making. It champions commodity and end-to-end quality integration with proactive downstream and customer engagement. Focused on delivering fresh products, the team improves temperature adherence and monitoring. It drives content creation and implementation for store automated guides and provides expertise for emerging fresh quality formats. Committed to growth, the team invests in people and capabilities to expand upstream inspections, ensuring continuous improvement in quality control and supply chain processes aligned with organizational standards.

Collaborate with internal and external partners to maintain and enhance quality standards across the supply chain. Conduct audits and inspections to ensure compliance with food safety, cold chain, and sanitation protocols. Identify and address quality issues, coaching teams on proper inspection and handling techniques. Analyze business processes to recommend improvements that enhance operational efficiency and product quality. Utilize data and reporting tools to monitor quality metrics and support decision-making.

Facilitate communication across departments to ensure adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.

Proven expertise in quality control practices, including auditing, reporting, and maintaining inventory standards. Strong knowledge of food safety, cold chain management, and sanitary handling procedures. Experience in stakeholder analysis, engagement, and effective communication across cross-functional teams. Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and implement change management strategies. Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and leveraging insights to drive operational excellence. Skilled in coaching personnel on quality inspection tools and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Demonstrated capability to collaborate with partners and influence outcomes to support business goals.

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…