(USA) Senior Manager, Business Strategy

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The Senior Manager, Global Sourcing Strategy leads strategic and transformation initiatives that advance Walmart's Sourcing & Procurement agenda. This role partners with Sourcing, Merchandising, Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance, Technology, and market leaders to define opportunities, build business cases, shape pilots, and create executive-ready recommendations.

The role requires strong problem solving, analytical depth, project leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication. The Senior Manager should be comfortable moving work from strategy to pilot to repeatable execution, while using data, dashboards, automation, and AI tools to improve insight generation, decision-making, and team productivity.

About the team:

The Sourcing Strategy team serves as the strategic engine for Walmart Sourcing, partnering with leadership to shape priorities, drive transformation, and accelerate enterprise value. We lead cross-functional strategy, analytics, governance, and transformation initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and execution across the sourcing organization.

We partner across Sourcing, Procurement, Operations, Finance, Tech, and Business teams to turn strategy into execution.

By aligning priorities, leading strategic initiatives, enabling data-driven decisions, and driving governance and change management, we help deliver scalable solutions and consistent enterprise impact across the organization.

What you'll do:

• Lead high-priority strategy and transformation initiatives across Sourcing.
• Define problem statements, structure options, assess trade-offs, and recommend clear actions.
• Build business cases, financial models, dashboards, and decision-support materials.
• Design and support pilots, including success metrics, governance, work plans, and scale-up recommendations.
• Convert successful initiatives into playbooks, operating models, RAPIDs, governance routines, and repeatable tools.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready presentations, white papers, updates, and decision documents.
• Use AI/LLM tools to generate insights, synthesize information, improve communications, build dashboards, and create agents or workflows for recurring tasks.
• Identify market, supplier, category, cost, country-of-origin, resilience, and technology trends that create risks or opportunities.
• Manage work streams, timelines, stakeholders, risks, and leadership updates across multiple projects.

What you'll bring:

• Strategic Thinking: Structures ambiguous problems and translates them into practical choices/recommendations.
• Analytical Capability: Builds fact-based analyses, models, dashboards, and business cases.
• Executive Communication: Creates clear, concise, leadership-ready written and visual materials.
• Ownership: Anticipates needs, identifies risks early, and operates independently with limited direction.
• Collaboration and Influence: Builds trust across teams and drives alignment without direct authority.
• Project Leadership: Manages milestones, owners, dependencies, governance, and follow-through.
• AI and Digital Fluency: Uses AI, automation, and analytics tools to improve speed, quality, and decision support.
• Collaboration and Influence. Builds effective working relationships across functions and BUs. Facilitates alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
• Experience supporting LRP, AOP, or comparable enterprise planning cycles
• Familiarity with strategy frameworks such as portfolio prioritization, market entry, cost levers, and make vs. buy analysis
• SQL proficiency
• Prior experience in retail, consumer packaged goods, or food industry sourcing.

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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 4 years' experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area OR 6 years' experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Leading cross-functional teams, Supervisory experience

Primary Location...

703 Associate Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.