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Position Summary...

As an Implementation Manager for the Assortment Planning (AP) platform, you will lead the enterprise rollout, adoption, and continuous improvement of Walmart’s next-generation planning platform that powers how merchants plan, select, and manage product assortments. You’ll bridge strategy and execution by driving alignment between business, design, product, and technology teams while ensuring that the platform scales effectively across categories and user groups. This role blends program management, change leadership, and product enablement to ensure our platform delivers measurable business value and evolves with the needs of our merchants and suppliers.

What you'll do...

As an Implementation Manager for the Assortment Planning (AP) platform, you will lead the enterprise rollout, adoption, and continuous improvement of Walmart’s next-generation planning platform that powers how merchants plan, select, and manage product assortments. You’ll bridge strategy and execution by driving alignment between business, design, product, and technology teams while ensuring that the platform scales effectively across categories and user groups. This role blends program management, change leadership, and product enablement to ensure our platform delivers measurable business value and evolves with the needs of our merchants and suppliers. **What You’ll Do** **Lead Implementation and Rollout**

+ Own the end-to-end delivery of the Assortment Planning platform across categories and business units from onboarding through steady-state adoption.

+ Define near-term and long-term success metrics (e.g., adoption, efficiency, user satisfaction) and use them to guide decision-making.

+ Step into active implementations to assess strategy and execution, identifying where to pivot or reinforce current approaches.

Enable Scalable Platform Growth

+ Partner with Product and Change Management teams to design sustainable rollout frameworks, automate onboarding processes, and embed continuous improvement practices.

+ Establish governance mechanisms that track performance, manage enhancements, and align priorities across multiple stakeholder groups.

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

+ Bring together users, tech teams, product managers, and supplier partners around shared outcomes and success metrics.

+ Translate complex technical or operational details into clear business impact stories that resonate across audiences.

Champion AI-Driven Adoption and Support

+ Identify opportunities for AI and automation to improve user experience such as tool tips, onboarding guides, and self-serve troubleshooting.

+ Collaborate with Data Science and Product to operationalize these features, ensuring measurable improvements in adoption and satisfaction.

Operationalize Feedback and Continuous Improvement

+ Build a structured intake and triage system for tool feedback, tickets, and enhancement requests.

+ Prioritize issues and enhancements based on impact, feasibility, and strategic alignment by balancing short-term needs with long-term roadmap goals.

Lead Change and Communication

+ Develop and deliver change management strategies that ensure successful adoption across diverse merchant and supplier audiences.

+ Partner with merchandising business teams to provide transparent updates, user education, and success storytelling.

What You’ll Bring

+ **Experience:** 3+ years leading enterprise-scale technology or platform implementations within retail, product, or technology organizations.

+ **Strategic Execution:** Proven success driving large, cross-functional rollouts that deliver measurable adoption and ROI.

+ **Leadership:** Experience leading teams and influencing at senior levels across business, product, and technology functions.

+ **AI & Automation Savvy:** Understanding of how AI, analytics, and automation can enhance user enablement, helpdesk functions, and continuous improvement.

+ **Change Management:** Deep experience in designing and executing change management, communication, and training programs for enterprise tools.

+ **Analytical Acumen:** Ability to connect operational outcomes (efficiency, data quality, adoption) to business KPIs and platform goals.

+ **Preferred Experience:** Background with planning or merchandising systems.

+ **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.

Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a highperforming team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members

Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments

Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and cross functionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action

Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving

Act with Integrity: Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values

Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble selfaware honest and transparent

Serve our Customers and Members Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers

Serve our Customers and Members Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy

Strive for Excellence:Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risk-taking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks

Strive for Excellence: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

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 (https://one.walmart.com/) .

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 :

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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, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 4 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 6 years'

experience in data analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis, Statistical programming languages (for example, SAS, R)

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Primary Location...

601 Respect Dr, 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.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.