(USA) 2026 FT MBA Merchandising Leadership Rotation Development Program

Walmart Us Merchandising Development Leadership Program

The Walmart US Merchandising Development Leadership program is a rotational program for recent MBA graduates, focused on developing future Merchandising leaders.

You will work to solve some of the largest and most complex retail challenges as we move from the largest brick & mortar retailer into a true omnichannel experience provider. This unique rotational program gives you exposure to leaders and cross functional partners across Walmart.

Through an individual rotational plan executed over the course of 3.5 to 5 years you will develop a robust understanding of Merchandising resulting in cross-functional leadership experiences and growth opportunities.

Rotations :

• Business Analytics / Planning Master your understanding of retail math, Walmart data systems, and Merchandising P&L to develop recommendations that accelerate market share, improves price gap, and achieve Walmart financial goals for a specific category / dept teams. In this role you will build your strategic mindset, data analytics, and operational decision-making abilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Replenishment - Learn how to flow product through Walmart's supply chain : leveraging processes, developing strong supplier relationships, and gaining understanding of inventory impacts to the dept P&L. In this role you will build your data analytics, supplier negotiation, and operational decision-making abilities in fast-paced environment.
• Modular Development - Utilize customer data, industry trends, and Walmart financials to optimize assortment layout across stores and dotcom. In this role you will build your data analytics, customer insights, and project management skills for a portfolio of categories or total department.
• Central Merchandising Operations Team - Establish merchandising strategy, processes, and tools to ensure customer needs are met while providing internal financial insights. In this role your customers are the business-facing Merchandising and Merch Ops teams who leverage the processes and tools you create. In this role you will build your data analytics, customer insights, product development, and project management skills.
• Merchant Roles- Drive a customer-focused business with P&L ownership, strategic category thinking, and omni-channel optimization. You are responsible for picking the assortment for a group of categories and negotiating the best cost with your suppliers. In this role you will build your data analytics, supplier negotiation, customer insights, and project management skills in a fast-paced environment.

Basic Qualifications :

Live Our Values

Culture Champion : Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart's commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.

Servant Leadership : Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

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 where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members.

Act 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 eg 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 nonretaliation 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.

Serve our Customers and Members : Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers.

Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams 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 risktaking 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.

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field and 2 years' experience in business management, merchandising, or related area OR 4 years' experience in business management, merchandising, or related area.

Project Management Certification, Six Sigma certification, Supervisory experience

Primary Location : 702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America