Senior Manager, Project Management
Location
Bentonville, AR | United States
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Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Senior Project Manager II, Sourcing Transformation
Introduction/About the Team
Our Sourcing team is embarking on a new phase of growth on our journey to become the most trusted and resilient supplier, powered by Walmart. We are accomplishing this by activating a new strategy, streamlining our structure, and doubling down on fostering a psychologically safe environment, empowering our associates to move faster, collaborate more easily and win together. We would love to have you join us, a truly superpowered sourcing team aligned throughout the enterprise, all with the customer at the heart of what we do!
What you'll do...
- Driving organizational change – The ultimate objective for you is to drive organizational and cultural change at Walmart to ensure Sourcing delivers on its longer-term goals. Maintain a portfolio of projects and deliverables across a variety of areas within Sourcing, from inception to completion. Serve as program lead for key initiatives managed by the Sourcing Leadership team with oversight of the program implementation and rollout, including change management and communications.
- Developing strategic roadmaps – Gain a deep understanding of the problem and pain points, identify the right solutions that are executable. Build the overarching roadmaps for bringing those solutions to realization. Ensure alignment and buy in to the roadmap from complex cross functional stakeholders. Communicate roadmap, enablers, and dependencies across executive audiences.
- Driving alignment and accountability – Drive informed decision-making and ensure resolution of critical issues by partnering with senior leaders to identify goals, success criteria, assumptions, risks, and known issues within the business. Educate sponsors, stakeholders, and executive leadership on program requirements. Develop and implement a program management life cycle. Responsible for presenting to key leadership and partners while keeping stakeholders updated on progress. Lead program meetings involving all key stakeholders that are strategic to meeting overall goals.
- Removing roadblocks and implementing change – Interpret and utilize information for one or more initiative work streams by using various analytical methodologies. Develop solutions within business areas that meet business goals. Prioritize assignments and recommend program changes to stakeholders based on data. Persuade cross-functional teams and stakeholders to implement changes. Seek and implement opportunities within the program to develop or refine process that optimize procedures, reduce time, while providing better consistency.
- Enabling acceleration and transformation – Evaluate program performance by comparing progress to long range plan. Identify and address cross-functional program and project issues and recommend adjustments and process improvement ideas to leadership to meet deliverables.
You’ll sweep us off our feet if…
- You have a growth mindset and believe in constant improvement for yourself and your business
- You are a self-starter, resourceful and able to work effectively with little direction
- You are a problem solver, proactive, and able to break down barriers
- You have a startup mentality: creative, able to work with ambiguity, and constantly iterating to be best-in-class
- You are great at prioritizing and coordinating action plans with cross-functional teams, but also comfortable with shifting priorities
- You have strong analytical and deductive reasoning skills coupled with strong communication skills to disseminate information clearly to all audiences of all backgrounds
- You have proven strengths in managing stakeholders and conflicting priorities.
- You’re action oriented with strong execution skills.
- You have shown an ability to build relationships and influence without authority.
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, Computer Science, or related field and 4 years' experience in business, operations, analytics, or related area OR 6 years' experience in business, operations, analytics, or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.
3 years’ project management experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Managing small or medium scale change initiatives, Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or related field, Project Management Certification, Six Sigma certification
Primary Location...
701 S. WALTON BLVD., BENTONVILLE, AR 72716-6209, United States of America
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