Attend and actively participate in merchant strategy meetings, category planning sessions, and supplier forums on behalf of Walmart Connect, capturing relevant priorities, trends, and opportunities.
Translate merchant priorities, category strategies, and business objectives into clear intelligence briefings that inform WMC’s sales approach, media planning, and advertiser engagement strategies.
Serve as the primary conduit between the merchant organization and WMC—ensuring timely, accurate, and actionable communication flows between both teams.
Identify and surface new brands and suppliers emerging from merchant priorities that WMC should engage as potential advertising partners, enabling proactive outreach and pipeline development.
Partner with WMC Sales and media planning teams to ensure merchant insights are integrated into advertiser conversations, pitch materials, and category-level media strategies.

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Operations , or related field and 2 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area OR 4 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area.
Experience in retail merchandising, category management, retail media, advertising, or a closely related field.
Professional maturity, sound judgment, and the ability to represent WMC credibly in senior merchant settings.
Strong oral, written, and visual communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling briefings and stakeholder updates tailored to specific audiences.

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.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

Manager, Operations – Merchandising Strategy

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