Senior Manager, Category Leadership

Your Opportunity as the Senior Manager, Category Leadership Walmart, Inc.

Location : Bentonville, AR

Work Arrangements : Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 9 days a month primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; maybe more as business need requires

In this role you will :

• Lead, coach, and develop team of category advisors responsible for providing strategic and tactical category recommendations across WMT Inc.
• Drive thought leadership to guide "Best in Class" strategy development and advisory execution
• Manage a team of 3 direct reports (7 team members total)
• Develop and implement Category Management initiatives to increase Category Sales, Market Share and Profitability for Walmart
• Leverage insights to recommend actionable tactics for the customer
• Execute and lead category reviews, assortment best practices, and MOD execution
• Enable and promote strong, data-driven decision making to drive winning category growth
• Interface with category customers on a regular basis to deliver Consumer and Category Insights
• Work cross functionally to deliver results creating and enabling strategy to support the Buyer's category, sales and marketing initiatives
• Proactively monitor industry developments and retail trends to anticipate business needs and drive organizational agility
• Adopt continuous improvement mindset to elevate advisory execution capabilities and advocate for resources and technology necessary to provide leading category capabilities.
• Budget Management
• Lead recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and development across team
• Foster an inclusive, growth-oriented environment to maximize employee engagement

Support team in delivery of flawless Category Advisory execution :

Develop customer specific category reviews and analysis to include :

Marketplace Expertise :

The Right Place for You

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