(usa) Senior Director, Technology Operations - Ecommerce Item Enablement

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Director, Technology Operations for eCommerce Item Enablement at Walmart. This role focuses on leading business platforms responsible for digital transactability, item publishing, offer listing, and eligibility to enhance the customer journey and drive sales. It involves a blend of business acumen, technological expertise, and operational excellence, with a focus on automation, data-driven decisions, and leading large teams to drive digital transformation and improve backend platform health and performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Telling a story with data – You’ll identify key transactability trends and root cause analysis, define the department’s executive story-telling roadmap, and use key functionalities like item publishing, offer listing, and eligibility to enhance the customer journey on our site, enabling items with enhanced automation to win customers’ hearts and minds.
  2. Being a change champion – You’ll drive digital transformation through continuous improvement, adoptions of new technology and digital disruption. You’ll also demonstrate curiosity with a growth mindset, fostering an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and you’ll exhibit resilience in the face of setbacks.
  3. Monitoring backend platform health and performance through analytics and key metrics – You’ll oversee the development of transactability metrics and dashboards to monitor platform health, providing strategic insights to internal stakeholders to influence the overall direction of platform decisions for the site.
  4. Operating with excellence – You’ll land the fundamentals and help scale best-in-class efficient workflows, processes, and timelines, embedding operational excellence into everything you do and developing associates on the team to increase capabilities and enhance skills, knowledge and performance.
  5. Becoming an invaluable strategic partner to internal stakeholders – You’ll advise on and partner with various internal teams to improve processes, identify opportunities, and scale best practice and governance, driving continual assessment and improvement of the site backend’s strategic direction and execution.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, or related field.
  • Advanced degree and 6 years' experience in technology operations or related field OR 8 years' experience related field.
  • Strong and effective cross communication skills(Up/Down/Peers)
  • results-driven mindset
  • Ability to select, lead, and develop a team of future leaders.
  • Analytical and process-oriented
  • comfortable making data-driven decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional team
  • willingness to take on responsibilities outside primary scope

Nice to have

  • technical bent and love leveraging data science to automate complex and multi-faceted problems
  • understand how customers shop online
  • strategic thinking and innovation
  • operational excellence
  • getting the fundamentals right
  • identify opportunities for efficiency and improvement
  • build trust quickly
  • lead by influence
  • creating impact through partnership as well as ownership
  • prioritize the collective success of the team
  • balancing seemingly conflicting enterprise objectives and metrics
  • quick to jump in, help, mentor, and coach your fellow team members
  • curiosity with a growth mindset
  • fostering an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking
  • resilience in the face of setbacks
  • altruistic servant leader
  • humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent
  • model Walmart values to foster our culture
  • holding oneself and others accountable
  • maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance

What the JD emphasized

  • leading the way in redefining how we make digital assortment available
  • harnessing the power of automation to drive efficiencies
  • driving platform solutions with tech
  • delivering incremental sales for eCommerce
  • balancing real-time execution and short term delivery with longer term roadmap development
  • proven track record of breaking new ground by leading with a ‘what needs to be true’ mentality
  • building new approaches
  • driving results through a blend of creative thinking, problem solving and rolling up your sleeves
  • leading large, matrixed teams
  • driving collaboration
  • providing leadership, development, and support
  • visionary constantly looking for ways to set us apart from the competition
  • driving new and enhanced backend functionality
  • leading with data and insights
  • translate complex data into actions and improvements
  • technical bent and love leveraging data science to automate complex and multi-faceted problems
  • understand how customers shop online
  • use strategic thinking and innovation to create seamless backend platform decisions
  • incredible focus on operational excellence
  • getting the fundamentals right
  • identify opportunities for efficiency and improvement
  • leader who can build trust quickly and can lead by influence
  • creating impact through partnership as well as ownership
  • believe in and prioritize the collective success of the team
  • balancing seemingly conflicting enterprise objectives and metrics
  • quick to jump in, help, mentor, and coach your fellow team members
  • Telling a story with data
  • identify key transactability trends and root cause analysis
  • define the department’s executive story-telling roadmap
  • use key functionalities like item publishing, offer listing, and eligibility to enhance the customer journey
  • enabling items with enhanced automation to win customers’ hearts and minds
  • Being a change champion
  • drive digital transformation through continuous improvement
  • adoptions of new technology
  • digital disruption
  • demonstrate curiosity with a growth mindset
  • fostering an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking
  • exhibit resilience in the face of setbacks
  • Monitoring backend platform health and performance through analytics and key metrics
  • oversee the development of transactability metrics and dashboards to monitor platform health
  • providing strategic insights to internal stakeholders to influence the overall direction of platform decisions for the site
  • Operating with excellence
  • land the fundamentals
  • help scale best-in-class efficient workflows, processes, and timelines
  • embedding operational excellence into everything you do
  • developing associates on the team to increase capabilities and enhance skills, knowledge and performance
  • Becoming an invaluable strategic partner to internal stakeholders
  • advise on and partner with various internal teams to improve processes
  • identify opportunities
  • scale best practice and governance
  • driving continual assessment and improvement of the site backend’s strategic direction and execution
  • Building a high performing, best in industry team
  • develop and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by recruiting, selecting, and developing talent
  • support mentorship, team development, and succession planning
  • implement strategies and initiatives that attract and retain diverse and inclusive talent
  • embracing diversity in all its forms and actively supporting diversity goal programs
  • Living our values
  • act as an altruistic servant leader
  • consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent
  • model Walmart values to foster our culture
  • holding oneself and others accountable
  • maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance
  • Strong and effective cross communication skills(Up/Down/Peers)
  • results-driven mindset
  • Ability to select, lead, and develop a team of future leaders
  • Analytical and process-oriented
  • comfortable making data-driven decisions
  • Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional team
  • willingness to take on responsibilities outside pr