Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives in Mississauga

Position Summary: Reporting to the Director, Corporate Strategy, this role is primarily responsible for driving internal strategy and playing the role of executive advisory support for critical large-scale strategic initiatives. This includes working with Walmart Canada’s business leaders in diagnosing core issues, identifying opportunities, scoping and assessing options to recommend solutions, and designing implementation roadmaps. It may also include overseeing execution of parts of the critical initiative to ensure successful delivery. This role is an agent of the Office of the President, and as such, must uphold a level of strong internal influence to ensure optimal delivery for Walmart Canada overall. This role also leans into delivering enterprise-wide strategic planning mandates, inclusive of the development of the long-range and annual plans. It also owns building and sharing competitive intelligence, including market outlook forecasting, across the organization to ensure leadership has the most insightful knowledge on the industry and competitor landscape. This is a high visibility and complex role with significant independent responsibilities and excellent prospects for career growth.

What you’ll do:

• Structure complex, ambiguous problems into clear and simple hypotheses, create digestible project plans, and use a data-driven approach to deliver on these.
• Develop and own comprehensive business cases and financial models utilizing an AI-first approach, all relevant data sources and various modelling methods to support strategic projects.
• Strategically lead and own project streams, develop a point-of-view, and be accountable for analysis, insights, and recommendations.
• Manage stakeholder communications and relationships, and become a trusted advisor to influence key outcomes.
• Deliver project insights and present recommendations as project lead to senior business owners/executive audiences.
• Utilize market research and analytics-based insights to inform opportunities and risks for the organization, through internal and external sources, including economic outlook, competitor activity, marketplace environment and trends impacting Walmart Canada and its stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in business or related field - Master’s or MBA preferred
• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, or strategy within a large retail or consumer organization
• Strong analytical skills and structured strategic thinking
• Excellent communication skills - written and spoken
• Proficient in data analysis and presentation building
• Results-driven, proactive and scrappy, independent thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, innovative and resourceful
• Strong team player and collaborator
• Experience in retail a plus
• Curiosity about AI tools adoption and use cases a plus

Leadership Expectations:

• Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
• Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
• Acts 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 Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us.
• Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Serve our Customers: Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.
• Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
• Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

The pay range for this position is $109,400.00 - $150,480.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location: 1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada