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Walmart Canada · 2 days ago

(USA) Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives - Data Ventures

Bentonville, AR

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$130K/yr - $260K/yr

6+ years exp

Walmart Inc. is a leading retail corporation, and they are seeking a Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives in their Data Ventures division. This role involves leading product portfolios, cultivating partnerships, and aligning execution across teams to drive value creation and monetization in retail operations.

DeliveryRetailShopping

Responsibilities

Set and execute the enterprise vision, adoption, and ROI for all retail-facing Data Ventures tools, ensuring alignment with company-wide strategic priorities

Translate complex business challenges from stores, merchandising, and supply chain into scalable, innovative business solutions that deliver enterprise-wide value such as labor optimization, sales acceleration, and compliance improvements

Develop and mentor high-performing teams, fostering a culture of learning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and inclusion that supports Walmart’s talent pipeline and succession planning

Build and evolve strategic partnerships with third-party vendors, suppliers, and key internal stakeholders, serving as Data Venture’s champion on retail-facing solutions

Bring to life cross functional partnerships by engaging with and gaining buy in with executive leadership across the organization

Collaborate with Strategy, Account Management, Business Development, Operations, Rev Ops and Product teams to ensure alignment and accountability for execution within Data Ventures

Provide strategic direction and oversight for the development, prioritization, and governance of key product initiatives, ensuring investments and resources are aligned with Walmart’s long-term business objectives

Drive adoption and usage of Data Ventures retail tools to support store objectives such as badge lifecycle management and compliance, who’s in the stores, and management of next best actions driving ROI for stakeholders

Ensure execution supports merchandising and store priorities

Identify, build business case, and prioritize enterprise-wide impacting opportunities by gathering insights from a broad range of stakeholders and translating them into actionable, high-impact product enhancements

Foster collaborative relationships within Walmart stakeholder groups to enable speed and agility from concept to POC of business concepts

Able to deliver a story and persuade an executive audience with well thought out presentation identifying the problem and right to win for business cases

Work with product teams toward scalable features that meet supplier, third party and Walmart needs

Define premium functionality that drives supplier investment and a Walmart competitive advantage

Build ROI stories that position DV tools as essential to supplier and third party success

Help Walmart grow operating income through smarter retail solutions

Qualification

Retail StrategyData AnalyticsProject ManagementStrategic PlanningConsultingBudget ManagementSustainabilityCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Environmental Science, Social Science, Communications, or related field

6 years' experience managing cross-functional projects for governmental or non-governmental organizations, consulting firms, or corporations

10 years' experience managing cross-functional projects for governmental or non-governmental organizations, consulting firms, or corporations

Preferred

Consulting

Preparing and executing budgets

Project Management

Strategic Planning

Sustainability - Environmental

Sustainability - Social

Working in a matrixed organization

Masters: International Studies

Benefits

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.

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 English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.