Senior Manager, Wholesale Trading and Exports

Senior Manager, Wholesale Trading and Exports (Sam's Club)

Merchandising at Sam’s Club fuels an exceptional member experience for millions of businesses worldwide. As Senior Manager, Wholesale Trading & Exports, you will sit at the center of a highly complex, highly visible operation acting as the liaison between the home office, clubs, large reseller members, exporters, and regulatory partners.

$90,000.00/yr – $/yr

• Serve as the primary liaison between the home office, clubs, exporters, and large reseller members, ensuring alignment across a business model that operates differently than traditional retail.
• Provide daily operational and compliance support to three Wholesale Trading (WST) clubs, while enabling additional clubs to sell wholesale and export inventory.
• Ensure truckload-specific assortments are executed effectively for reseller members who purchase in bulk rather than through traditional club shopping.
• Own and audit the Truckload and WTI dashboards, delivering weekly performance insights and proactively identifying risk, compliance gaps, and growth opportunities.
• Oversee the WTI application and export documentation process, ensuring accurate, compliant execution across all export transactions.
• Act as a key partner to export compliance, legal, and credit card compliance teams, supporting quarterly audits of wholesale trading centers and export locations.
• Audit and support seven export-enabled clubs located in port cities, ensuring adherence to state, federal, and international export regulations.
• Review and approve new exporters, members, agents, and carriers, ensuring documentation is complete and compliant before transactions occur.
• Influence outcomes without direct reports by driving execution through clubs, members, and external partners—holding stakeholders accountable to compliance standards.
• Contribute to the long‑term talent strategy by helping develop future market and compliance leaders, building skills that scale with business growth.

• A compliance‑first mindset, with the judgment and discipline required to operate in a highly regulated wholesale and export environment.
• Experience operating as a liaison across multiple stakeholders, including operations, legal, compliance, and external partners.
• Strong attention to detail and audit readiness, with the ability to manage quarterly reviews and ongoing compliance checks.
• Comfort driving results without direct authority or large support teams, influencing clubs, members, and exporters to meet requirements.
• Analytical capability, including experience with dashboards and performance reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Clear and confident communication skills, including the ability to request, review, and validate required export documentation.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately one week per month to clubs, ports, and key partners.
• Bilingual capabilities (Spanish/English) are a strong plus, particularly for export markets such as Puerto Rico and international partners.
• Familiarity with state and federal compliance requirements related to exports, payments, and regulated transactions.

• Health benefits:
  
  medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits:
  
  401(k), stock purchase, and company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Additional benefits: short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and Live Better U education program.

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field and 2 years’ experience in wholesale or retail operations management or related field OR 4 years’ experience in wholesale or retail operations management or related field. 2 years’ experience leading teams.

Logistics, Merchandise Planning, Preparing and executing budgets, Profit and Loss (P&L) Accountability, Replenishment, Retail Software Programs, Sam’s Club, Sourcing and Procurement, Supervising Associates, Working on cross‑functional teams or projects;
English, Spanish.

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712‑4304, United States of America