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Director, Strategic Partnership - Internal Consulting & Special Projects, Walmart Connect
About Walmart Connect:
Walmart Connect is key to Walmart's growth strategy. Walmart has built a ~$3 billion dollar closed-loop media business division of America's largest omnichannel retailer. It offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers, no matter where, how and when they shop.
Walmart Connect is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for our suppliers, sellers, merchants, stores, GMs, brand advertisers, and agencies using our full funnel ad solutions leverage Walmart's in-store and online data. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, engage with Walmart consumers, and convert Walmart consumers to shoppers.
This is a unique opportunity to join a high-visibility team within the largest company in the world.
What You'll Do:
We are seeking an experienced, strategic and effective Director of WMC Business Operations to be a key contributor within its Internal Consulting & Special Projects team. This team focuses on leading strategic initiatives to solve business challenges, ranging from operational to people based workstreams, to help shape our growth strategy in the immediate future.
As Director, you will lead workstreams similar to those in management consulting, identifying and enabling transformation change across the business. You will exhibit a consultative approach and influence in leading cross-functional collaboration and partnerships with senior leaders; this will often require driving consensus or decision-making against competing priorities. Thus, establishing strong and resilient internal relationships in a matrixed organization from the onset is key.
You will bring intellectual curiosity, a consulting skillset with an appetite to lead transformation, and master storytelling skills to craft narratives that inspire but are backed by data. You will consistently demonstrate an ability to tackle complex business challenges while being comfortable producing "stake in the ground" hypotheses.
If you are passionate about driving organizational growth and thrive in dynamic environments, this role is for you!
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
In short, this is a role where one will lean into and fully own the internal consulting arm for Walmart Connect; effectively craft and communicate synthesized narratives and influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams up and down the organization. Putting together all the pieces for both the present and future in a strategic way - all in an environment of ongoing change and transformation. Individual components (non-exhaustive) of the role are below:
• Strategic Thinking: Utilize your strategic mindset to assess and address a wide range of complex business challenges, including but not limited to initial scoping all the way through delivery to key stakeholders. Develop and implement business strategies that drive growth and operational excellence considering both short-term and long-term implications. This role will require the ability to undertake difficult and ambiguous business challenges within an ever-evolving business environment.
• Problem Solving: Tackle business problems with an "answer first" approach, demonstrating a proactive and results-oriented mindset. Navigate ambiguity with confidence, putting a stake in the ground to drive decisions even in the absence of perfect data and amidst ambiguity. Lead special projects that are rooted in analysis, and hypothesis driven. Help make recommendations that solve complicated business problems to guide and support WMC leadership.
• Storytelling: Use your creativity and strategic thinking to craft narratives that captivate audiences and influence key stakeholders to enact change.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with various departments, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product, to drive alignment, streamline workflows, and support the achievement of company objectives. Build strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners including executives and department heads. Work collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives and communicate to a variety of audiences with influence and inspiration to garner commitment and action.
• Business Connectivity and Implications: Strategically connect the dots between various business functions and priorities, ensuring a holistic understanding of how initiatives impact the overall business. Tie project outcomes back to tangible business implications and key performance indicators. Root decision making in data driven hypothesis and conclusions, conducting financial assessment and analysis for each project.
• Executive Stakeholder Management: Be a go-to person for leaders to help tackle some of the most difficult business challenges including, but not
Location: Clifton, NJ
Posted: Nov. 10, 2024, 6:29 a.m.
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