Senior Manager, Merchandising Activity Planning

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Mississauga, ON

This role is for a Senior Manager of Merchandising Activity Planning at Walmart, focusing on strategic planning and execution of in-store feature activities to drive Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) growth. Responsibilities include optimizing feature space allocation, developing planning and analytical tools, managing cross-functional teams, and driving continuous improvement in operational practices. The role requires strong leadership, program management, financial acumen, and strategic planning skills, with a minimum of 10 years of management experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. The Senior Manager, Merchandising Activity Planning leads the strategy, planning, and execution of feature activities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  2. 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.
  3. The role may also drive cross-functional synergy by engaging teams to finalize annual feature space assignments and establishing collaborative environments for key initiatives.
  4. The focus includes rigorous feature execution processes, standardizing operational processes across various platforms, and implementing innovative tracking tools.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 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.

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years management experience