Senior Director, Global Strategic Initiatives

Position: Senior Director, Global People Strategic Initiatives
Reference: R-2629923

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Location:

BENTONVILLE, AR, United States Salary: $130000 - $260000/year

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Full time / Regular/Permanent Company:
Walmart Business Segment:
Home Office Shape Strategy & Solve Problems Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities and complex problems into clear strategies, choices, and actionable plans. Bring structure to ambiguous problems, identifying the questions that need to be answered, decisions that need to be made, and work required to move forward. Synthesize complex information into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-level narratives.

Anticipate issues, dependencies, and opportunities and proactively recommend a path forward. Move effectively between developing the strategy and executing it, recognizing that the two often happen simultaneously. Lead Strategic Initiatives Own high-priority, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution. Establish clear outcomes, work streams, milestones, decision points, ownership, and measures of success. Connect work across teams and functions, ensuring leaders understand how their work contributes to the broader objective.

Identify when work is off track and actively intervene to resolve barriers, clarify decisions, and accelerate progress. Create accountability and momentum without adding unnecessary process or bureaucracy. Influence & Direct Leaders Work confidently with senior executives and functional leaders, providing clarity on what is needed from them and when. Facilitate complex conversations, surface tradeoffs, and drive groups toward decisions. Challenge thinking constructively and know when to push, escalate, or adapt.

Build trust quickly and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority. Hold leaders and teams accountable for commitments while maintaining strong, productive relationships. Turn Strategy Into Action Move seamlessly from executive discussions to hands-on execution. Personally develop plans, analyses, presentations, communications, decision materials, and other deliverables required to advance the work. Follow through on decisions and ensure commitments translate into action.

Step into gaps when necessary rather than waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Maintain a strong bias toward progress, simplification, and results. Use AI to Accelerate & Reinvent the Work Use AI as an everyday tool to think faster, solve problems, synthesize information, and accelerate execution. Identify manual, repetitive, or inefficient work and build AI-enabled tools, agents, and automations that simplify or eliminate it.

Rapidly prototype solutions rather than waiting for perfect systems or long development cycles. Apply AI to improve planning, analysis, reporting, communications, knowledge management, program execution, and decision support. Look beyond individual productivity to identify opportunities to redesign how work gets done across the team and organization. Experiment with emerging capabilities, learn quickly, and help others adopt more effective, AI-enabled ways of working.

What You’ll Bring ...Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex and ambiguous issues. Exceptional program leadership and execution discipline across large, cross-functional initiatives. Executive presence and confidence working with, influencing, and appropriately directing senior leaders. A bias for action and willingness to personally do the work—not simply coordinate others doing it. Ability to connect the dots and see around corners, recognizing dependencies, risks, and implications others may not immediately see.

Strong judgment and the ability to distinguish what requires executive attention from what can be…