(usa) senior director, business strategy

Position Summary

What you'll do...

Role summary:

As the Senior Director, Merchandising Acceleration, you’ll lead strategic monetization initiatives that expand how Walmart serves customers and drives incremental revenue across Walmart US's Entertainment, Toys and Seasonal division. This role sits at the intersection of merchandising and ecosystem growth, building new capabilities that directly supports Walmart’s strategic pillar of new revenue streams. This is a highly visible role on the newly formed Merchandising Acceleration team. Designed for a builder and intrapreneur, this role offers the opportunity to connect the dots across the enterprise and build new capabilities that help shape the future of merchandising.

About the team:

The Merchandising Acceleration team leads strategic initiatives to enhance Walmart US’s Entertainment, Toys, and Seasonal division. This team integrates merchandising, digital innovation, and ecosystem growth to build new capabilities that support Walmart’s strategic goals for revenue expansion. This high-impact group fosters continuous improvement and innovation, shaping the future of merchandising and contributing significantly to Walmart’s long-term success.

What you'll do:

• Identify customer and business opportunities and translate them into clear strategies, business cases, and roadmaps.
• Develop scalable omni experiences for monetization programs that bring together products, digital content, services, and broader enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with merchandising, eCommerce, product, technology, marketing, finance, analytics, and other teams to align priorities and deliver results.
• Define and track key performance metrics to measure progress and communicate results to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Oversee transformational change initiatives, ensuring effective project management from pilot to full execution.

What you'll bring:

• Experience in digital acceleration, merchandising strategy, digital products and services, or business transformation.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives within a large or highly matrixed organization.
• Strong strategic and commercial judgment, with the ability to connect customer needs to measurable growth opportunities.
• Experience translating strategy into business requirements and scalable solutions.
• The ability to influence leaders and align teams across different functions and priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• A customer-first mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and a track record of building and scaling new capabilities.

Benefits:

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. 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. For information about PTO, see this link.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 6 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area OR 8 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Working on cross-functional teams or projects.
• Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science, Masters: Mathematics, Masters: Supply Chain, Masters: Transportation.

Primary Location:

1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.