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Senior Manager, Supplier Diversity and Inclusion at Walmart

BENTONVILLE, AK | posted: October 10, 2024

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Sourcing team is accelerating its growth on our journey to become the most trusted and resilient supplier, powered by Walmart. We are accomplishing this by implementing strategy grounded in trust, value, and resilience, by streamlining our structure, and doubling down on fostering a psychologically safe environment, empowering our associates to move faster, collaborate more easily and win together.

You'll make an impact by:

1. Being a strong business partner to the General Merchandise (GM) supplier development, sourcing, merchandising and marketplace teams (GM teams).
2. Driving strategic business development by identifying, assessing, and nurturing new small, emerging, and diverse-owned businesses as potential suppliers for Walmart.
3. Supporting the GM teams in their strategy development efforts, opportunity mapping, data analysis, and plotting supplier growth pathways while also managing and growing an existing portfolio of GM suppliers.
4. Building strong enterprise collaboration across corporate affairs, communications, events solutions, legal, finance, compliance, and related core cross-functional teams.
5. Continually developing insights from the supplier portfolio to inform business strategy and promote inclusion growth across GM teams.
6. Growing supplier engagement through capacity development in collaboration with the supplier capabilities team.
7. Growing internal stakeholder engagement especially across merchandise, merchandise operations and related merchandise support teams, e.g., supplier administration, supplier finance.
8. Building expertise on new business and new business revenue models, helping guide suppliers to knowledge and know-how resources and tools for this business.
9. Taking initiative to identify solutions related to data, engagement, and training to support suppliers and cross-functional workstreams.
10. Communicating effectively internally and externally while building trust and accountability with stakeholders.
11. Managing time-bound projects with a bias to action and a focus on clear outputs and outcomes against strategic choices to build portfolio, increase level of support to GM teams, while also embedding lasting know-how across internal stakeholders.
12. Demonstrating resilience through dynamic, collegial environment to compete and win the customer through excellent supplier development and engagement.
13. Growing understanding of current and future state supplier inclusion and supplier certification landscape along with strong engagement with external stakeholders in support of business and supplier growth objectives.
14. Engaging and supporting accountability across core events management and follow-up.
15. Up to 15% travel for conferences, trade shows, or other role related business development supplier and stakeholder engagement requirements.

You'll sweep us off our feet if you:

1. Have experience working in multiple business areas/functions/segments at Walmart or similar retailer or supplier company (merchandising, merchandise operations, merchandise finance, business development, business strategy or similar).
2. Have strong data analysis, project management, organization, business development, business writing and strategy presentation skills.
3. Have strong budget and budget management support skills.
4. Have proven skills in influencing while upholding Walmart's core values.
5. Are team-oriented and work well as both a subject matter expert and within and across core teams.
6. Understand Walmart's Product Sourcing and/or Professional Services Procurement and/or Store and Supply Chain Operations infrastructure, processes, and systems.
7. Have strong analytical skills with ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
8. Have a bachelor's degree in business administration, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Sustainability or similar.
9. Can demonstrate and communicate a commitment, interest, and curiosity in and for Belonging, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in support of customer and community connection.

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.