Position Summary...

Provide visionary leadership and strategic oversight for end-to-end feature planning in stores to drive significant Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) growth. Coordinate with multiple key stakeholders to shape and execute a best-in-class in-store feature allocation, ensuring meticulous execution of strategic initiatives and operational readiness.

What you'll do...

The Senior Manager, Merchandising Activity Planning leads the strategy, planning, and execution of feature activities, ensuring alignment with business objectives. This position designs and implements comprehensive strategies and operational plans to optimize feature space plans in our stores, including creating a 12-24 month feature allocation calendar and robust analytical tools for performance monitoring and decision-making.

The role may also drive cross-functional synergy by engaging teams to finalize annual feature space assignments and establishing collaborative environments for key initiatives. The focus includes rigorous feature execution processes, standardizing operational processes across various platforms, and implementing innovative tracking tools.

Additionally, the position supports the monthly feature plan reviews with each merchandising SBU areas, driving annual and monthly planning processes with senior executives and facilitating post-meeting action plans.
Accountable for continuous improvement, the Senior Manager proactively enhances strategies, advises senior leaders, and fosters innovation in operational practices. This position may also influence and gain consensus from cross-functional partners.

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:

• Strong Merchandise background

• Strong Program and Project Management skills

• Excellent communication and influence capability

• Great Financial Acumen on P&L forecasting

• Influencing at SR Leadership level

• Seasoned Leader with 10+ years management experience

• Experience managing large scale organizational change

• Experience building and executing business-wide strategy

• Strong analytical capability to review and assess long term impacts and benefits of activities, ability to prioritize the most effective deliverables.

The pay range for this position is $109,400.00 - $150,480.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

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L’échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 109,400.00 à 150,480.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l’expérience pertinente.

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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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