Position Summary...

The role leads merchandise planning for a business unit exceeding $1B in annual sales, partnering with key stakeholders to set plans, review in-season results, and analyze performance to achieve sales, gross profit, and inventory targets.

What you'll do...

The role manages and directs merchandise financial plans and forecasts down to the subcategory/category level, including sales, markdowns, and receipts. It involves highlighting risks and opportunities, formulating action plans for approval, and communicating results to cross-functional partners. The role encompasses the entire product lifecycle from development to allocation to exit, ensuring financial and merchandise plans, budgets, and other KPIs are met.

In collaboration with senior leaders, the role reviews assortments and understands potential sales and profit, presenting products with appropriate financials. It drives the execution of the current business plan by working closely with cross-functional teams, identifying opportunities to improve processes, and implementing standardized solutions across business units.

Leading merchandise planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities, the role provides historical seasonal overview data to assist in formulating seasonal plans and evaluating previous season performance. The role also collaborates with senior leaders for weekly sales updates, reviews performance, forecasts markdown budgets, and prepares action plans to achieve GP and inventory targets. Additionally, the role provides coaching and direction to merchandise planners, driving engagement by valuing associates, recognizing accomplishments, and providing growth opportunities. It facilitates career progression through performance and potential assessments.

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; 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.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

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.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications

• Retail Experience, Leadership, Commodity Knowledge and Analysis Skills are key
• Minimum Education Required Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum Years of Experience Required 3 - 5 years

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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.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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