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(USA) Director, DC Quality

Walmart

Walmart

Quality Assurance
Bentonville, AR, USA
Posted on Jul 25, 2024

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Job Summary:

You'll also oversee the quality efforts of multiple facilities within your division through implementing quality standards. In partnership with Quality engineers and QA professionals, this role will ensure the supply chain operations adhere to the highest quality standards. This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining quality systems to boost our business from supplier to customer.

What you’ll do:

  • People Leadership: Develop your team's skills, identify knowledge gaps, and provide resources to fill these gaps. Be able to lead by influence without direct authority.
  • Communication & Influence: Effectively lead change and implement initiatives through all levels and areas of the distribution center.
  • Quality Control Systems: Develop and maintain systems to ensure all operations exceed internal and external customer expectations.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Use quality data and metrics to identify areas for improvement and drive corrective actions. Define what quality data is necessary to drive the business needs.
  • Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of quality across the organization, driving continuous process improvement and innovation.

What you’ll bring:

  • Quality Management experience -the person in this role must have a strong background in quality control systems and practices. They need to develop and maintain quality control systems to ensure that all warehousing operations meet or exceed customer expectations. As well as traditional inventory management knowledge.
  • Data Analysis-The ability to analyze quality data and metrics is crucial for this role. The Director of Quality will need to use these metrics to identify areas for improvement and drive corrective actions. Using various software and/or coding skills (Minitab, SQL, Python, powerBI…). Define what quality data is necessary and develop visualization to drive the business needs.
  • Communication and Influence-Effective communication is key in this role, you will need to lead initiatives and have the ability to influence buy in from multiple stakeholders.

Additional Comments:

  • We are elevating our standards of quality, serving our customers better. The supply chain is building out a Quality Management System to standardize defect detection and elimination to drive down the cost of bad quality to exceed the needs of our customer.
  • Transforming our way to see quality to eliminate defects from root cause.
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 https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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.

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Stock

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 engineering, supply chain, or related area and 5 years’ experience in consulting, technical project management, business strategy, or related area. 2 years’ supervisory experience.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in technical project management, business strategy, or related area, 3 years’ experience leading cross-functional teams, and 3 years’ experience with quality management system development and execution. 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.

Strategic planning and setting team direction

Primary Location...

601 N Walton Blvd, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America