Walmart Canada · 21 hours ago
Senior Merchant - Christmas
Walmart Inc. is a leading retail company dedicated to helping people save money so they can live better. As a Senior Merchant for Christmas, you will leverage your expertise in category strategy, team management, and supplier negotiations to drive growth and enhance customer experience across both stores and eCommerce channels.
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Responsibilities
You are comfortable managing a multimillion-dollar business with profit and loss responsibility
You are an entrepreneur and enjoy being the CEO of your business
You are customer-focused, understand customer behavior across stores and eComm channels, and make customer-centric recommendations and decisions across all touchpoints
You have proven digital acumen and understand how to leverage it to drive your omni channel business
You are data savvy: you can analyze performance, understand trends, and translate results into strategies
You have strong communication skills that enable you to convey complex topics in a concise manner to various audiences
You guide suppliers, vendors, and your cross functional team in the development of customer focused processes and products
You are tenacious, dedicated and thrive working with ownership, autonomy, and a healthy dose of competition
Developing strategy and growth of multiple formats and departments for large, complex, or high-risk categories and subcategories by identifying relevant trends to meet customer needs
Growing your categories for both stores & eComm channels: Planning, budgeting, forecasting, and driving growth for the category and establishing a comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape into your business plans
Establishing and influencing high-visibility supplier relationships
Developing and managing new and existing product lines
Leading your team through mentorship and development to achieve high performance standards
Always looking for creative ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and customer experience
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising or related field and 4 years' experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area
6 years' experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area
1 years' supervisory experience
Preferred
Microsoft Office
Negotiating with third-party suppliers
Supervisory experience
Masters: Business
Masters: Merchandising
Benefits
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical, vision and dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting
Short-term and long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program
Company
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada is a subsidiary of Walmart that operates a chain of more than 400 stores nationwide. It is a sub-organization of Walmart.
Funding
Current Stage
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