(USA) Senior Manager, Business Strategy - eCommerce
Walmart
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Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas ONLY
What You'll Do:
- Product Planning Support
- Drive roadmap alignment across product, engineering, design, and business
- Facilitate OKR creation, tracking, and cross-functional visibility
- Maintain product portfolio documentation and dashboards
Operational Rhythm & Cadence
- Manage product team meetings (QBRs, sprint planning, reviews)
- Standardize templates for status updates, post-mortems, launch checklists
- Track delivery milestones and unblock execution gaps
Data & Insights Infrastructure
- Build and maintain product health dashboards
- Coordinate user research synthesis and feedback loops
- Ensure data cleanliness and KPI definitions across teams
Launch & Release Management
- Create and run go-to-market operational checklists
- Coordinate with marketing, sales, legal, and support for readiness
- Ensure compliance, risk tracking, and post-launch review
Product Operations
- Supports PMs, designers, eng, analysts
- Owns tools, cadences, launch ops
- Tracks roadmap delivery, KPIs
- Standardizes research, experimentation, feedback loops
- Works within product development lifecycle
- Enable execution through process & systems
- Align stakeholders and reduce friction
- Analyze data to improve outcomes
- Influence without direct ownership
- Standardizes business processes and decision-making
- Owns strategic planning, budgeting, and OKR tracking
Product Operations – Key Activities, Tasks & Work Streams (not all of these apply to us as we have an XFN team, but it gives you a flavor of what’s standard out there) (At a major technology company)
Tooling & Process Optimization
- Own and improve tools (Jira, Asana, Productboard, etc.)
- Drive adoption of best practices in product development workflows
- Eliminate inefficiencies and manual work in product lifecycle
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Serve as operational glue between product, eng, design, CX, analytics
- Ensure tight alignment on priorities, blockers, and timelines
- Run cross-org initiatives (e.g., AI integration, platform migrations)
Change Management & Comms
- Craft executive-ready narratives on product progress
- Own team-wide communications and process rollout strategies
- Support org changes, reorgs, and onboarding with precision
What They Do Not Do:
- Do not define product strategy or vision (that’s the PM’s role)
- Do not own feature-level prioritization
- Do not manage engineering teams or write code
- Do not handle customer support tickets directly
- Do not replace project managers on engineering-specific delivery
- Do not run marketing or sales enablement campaigns
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 $90,000.00-$180,000.00
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.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Social Science, Communications, or related field and 4 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in retail merchandising, operations management, or related area.Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Leading cross-functional teams, Supervisory experience