(USA) Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives at Walmart in Hoboken, New Jersey

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Establishes strong partnerships and collaborations with internal teams, external stakeholders, and other organizations. Fosters a collaborative work environment where team members feel comfortable working together, sharing ideas, and supporting each other. Facilitates effective communication between team members and different stakeholders. Ensures that all parties have access to relevant information, provides clear instructions and guidance, and encourages open and transparent communication. Leverages the strengths of team members and partners to maximize collaboration. Encourages individuals to contribute their unique abilities and skills, creating a synergistic and high-performing team. Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of partnerships and collaborations. Sets clear goals, tracks progress, and regularly reviews outcomes.


Provides recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues (for example, operational processes, required skills, revenue generation opportunities). Develops business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings. Demonstrates functional knowledge of the business unit/organization being supported. Translates business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and aligns to the overall business strategy. Serves as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results. Recommends new processes and ways of working. Partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify and assess strategy choices. Provides advice and support to improve business and financial understanding and awareness within the business. Monitors, analyzes, and translates data to provide information and evidence to support business strategies and requirements (for example, planning and reporting, business cases, budgets). Explains basic financial management reports. Analyzes the varying approaches to expense and budget management .


Leverages data analysis tools to explore moderately complex data. Develops and tests hypotheses. Uses data to influence strategic work. Builds and presents insights. Identifies, implements, and drives technology change within scope of work. Uses visualization tools to represent data and construct coherent stories to influence decisions. Uses customer analytics for basic forecasting purposes. Maintains and organizes all customer analytics portfolio-related data. Interprets customer analytics results and presents findings to management. Participates in the deployment of web-based surveys used to collect customer data. Creates business analysis reports from customer analytics data extracts. Maintains and organizes all business portfolio-related data. Documents performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities. Researches business-related data and generates and interprets basic analytics. Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to reflect business performance .


Prepares annual baseline plan budgets, broken down by time period, task, and cost account. Uses schedules to prepare cash flow forecasts for projects based on completion status of different project milestones. Creates reports on the progress of project schedules, costs, and scopes. Compares present status to baselines and forecasts future trends using earned value analyses. Uses statistical methods to develop project cost and time estimate ranges quantified by risk probabilities and confidence levels. Tracks risks and changes risk items over the course of projects according to risk management plans.


Understands financials and how product pricing can impact financials. Researches company history and experience with retail markets and channels. Documents retail activities and issues related to major trends and directions . Discusses existing and planned retail approaches for an assigned area of specialization. Cites sources of information and key industry publications covering retail. Explains rationales for major initiatives.


Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes. Defines strategies to gather and keep customers. Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes, and assesses feasibility. Establishes requirements for large changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities, and processes necessary to make business improvements. Evaluates financial, cultural, technological, and other factors. Recommends new approaches that seek the use of advanced technology. Works to overcome business process improvement resistance from managers, the labor force, and other groups.


Understands consumer behaviors, conducts market research, and leverages insights to drive category growth.


Develops and executes promotional plans for the category. Plans and coordinates promotional activities (for example, sales promotions, advertising campaigns, in-store displays) to drive category sales and increase customer engagement.


Builds and maintains strong relationships with suppliers. Demonstrates negotiation skills, oversees contract management, and ensures suppliers meet quality and delivery standards to support category execution. Collaborates with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance to ensure alignment and maximize category performance. Analyzes sales data, market trends, and consumer insights to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans to address issues.


Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.


Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.


Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.


Live our Values: Culture Champion - Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart's commitment to communities, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.


Live our Values: Servant Leadership - Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.


Embrace Change: Curiosity & Courage - Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.


Embrace Change: Digital Transformation & Change - Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.


Deliver for the Customer: Customer Focus - Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.


Deliver for the Customer: Strategic Thinking - Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy.


Focus on our Associates: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.


Focus on our Associates:Collaboration & Influence - Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.


Focus on our Associates:Talent Management - Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.


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.
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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.
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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.


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


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Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279:The annual salary range for this position is $84,000.00-$156,000.00
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San Bruno, California US-08848:The annual salary range for this position is $91,000.00-$169,000.00
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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...



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


Option 1: Bachelor's degree in business or related area and 2 years' experience in business management, marketing, omnichannel merchandising, or related area.
Option 2: 4 years' experience in business management, marketing, omnichannel merchandising, or related area.




Preferred Qualifications...



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


Business Management, Marketing, Omnichannel Merchandising, or related area




Primary Location...



221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America



About Walmart



At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?


Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.



All the benefits you need for you and your family

• Multiple health plan options, including vision & dental plans for you & dependents
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase plans, life insurance and more
• Associate discounts in-store and online
• Education assistance for Associate and dependents
• Parental Leave
• Pay during military service
• Paid Time off - to include vacation, sick, parental
• Short-term and long-term disability for when you can't work because of injury, illness, or childbirth

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 specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com/Benefits.



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