Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Walmart US eCommerce Fulfillment Services team (WFS) builds products that allow Marketplace sellers to easily provide fast, affordable delivery options to Walmart's customers. At WFS, our aim is to differentiate on trust, transparency, and partnership. This role is intended to support the product organization who are eagerly working to build and scale products quickly into the field to be adopted by Marketplace sellers.

The Product Operations and Strategy Staff Manager plays a pivotal role in facilitating the scaling and growth of a startup-like organization while establishing business rhythm. The Product Operations and Strategy Senior Manager is like the conductor of a startup orchestra, ensuring everyone plays in harmony as the organization scales and grows. They're the architect behind the scenes, crafting a comprehensive product playbook that guides the team toward strategic goals while keeping things fun and dynamic. By setting up governance frameworks and guidelines, they act as the organization's GPS, steering it towards success while dodging potential roadblocks. This role will collaborate across Strategy, Account Management, Fulfillment Operations, Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams establish an operating product management playbook for evolving and rapidly growing product organization for WFS.

The Product Operations and Strategy Staff Manager serves as a bridge between cross-functional teams, facilitating collaboration and communication to ensure alignment on goals, priorities, and timelines. By fostering a collaborative environment and breaking down silos, they enable the organization to execute product initiatives cohesively and effectively. Their role isn't just about rules, though. They're also the chief cheerleader for learning and development, creating an upskilling curriculum that's more engaging than a Netflix binge. This empowers teams with the skills and knowledge needed to tackle challenges head-on, fostering a culture where everyone is eager to learn and grow.

But it's not all serious business. As the ultimate team player, they're the glue that holds cross-functional teams together, making sure everyone's on the same page and having a blast while they're at it. With their knack for performance analysis and optimization, they turn data into insights that propel the organization forward, like a rocket ship fueled by innovation.

And when it comes to change, they're the ultimate smooth operator, making transitions feel as easy as upgrading your favorite app. By crafting communication plans and training materials that are more engaging than a TikTok trend, they ensure everyone's on board with new processes, tools, and technologies.

In the end, with their strategic leadership, collaborative spirit, and commitment to making work feel like play, the Product Operations and Strategy Staff Manager is the secret sauce that helps a startup-like organization scale, grow, and find its rhythm in the business world.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

Product Playbook Development: Create and maintain a comprehensive product playbook, detailing best practices, processes, and strategies for product development within the supply chain domain.

Governance Establishment: Establish governance frameworks and guidelines to ensure alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.

Upskilling Curriculum Design: Design and implement a tailored upskilling curriculum for product teams, identifying key competencies and skills gaps, and delivering training programs to address them.

Template and Tool Support: Provide guidance on the use of templates and tools to streamline product management processes, including project planning, requirements gathering, roadmap development, and performance tracking.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Strategic Planning: Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and refine long-term product strategies aligned with the company's overall business objectives and market trends.

Performance Analysis: Analyze data and performance metrics to evaluate the success and impact of product initiatives, identifying trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.

Collaboration Facilitation: Foster collaboration and communication across cross-functional teams, acting as a liaison to ensure alignment on goals, priorities, and timelines.

Change Management: Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and technologies within the organization, developing communication plans and training materials to support successful implementation.

What are we looking for?

• You use data to drive decisions and outcomes

• You have been a product manager and understand the methodology

• You are a self-starter with a strong attention to detail and an ability to deal with ambiguity

• You're comfortable working across cross-functional organizations

• You have experience in Supply Chain, process design, or operational excellence

• You're skilled at engaging and communicating to senior executives across multiple domains

• You're organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple projects simultaneously

• You're stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale

How You Can Make an Impact?

Strategic Influence:

Alignment with Objectives: Drive alignment with business objectives, ensuring that product development efforts are strategically focused and contribute to the company's overall success.

Efficiency and Compliance: Enhance efficiency and effectiveness through the establishment of governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

Empowerment through Upskilling: Empower teams through upskilling initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and equipping product managers with the necessary skills to excel in their roles.

Cross-Functional Synergy:

Collaborative Alignment: Foster collaboration and alignment across departments and teams, breaking down silos and ensuring that product initiatives are executed cohesively and effectively.

Data-Driven Optimization: Optimize performance and drive growth through data-driven insights and analysis, identifying opportunities to enhance product performance, organizational standards, and business outcomes.

Successful Change Adoption: Lead change management efforts to ensure the successful adoption of new initiatives, minimizing resistance and maximizing the impact of organizational change efforts.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart .

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Hoboken, New Jersey US-10649/Bellevue, Washington US-11075:The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00-$264,000.00

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San Bruno, California US-08848:The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00

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Bentonville, Arkansas US-10735:The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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• Stock

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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.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years' experience in product management. Option 2: 9 years' experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 6 years' experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

10500 Ne 8Th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.