Manager, Supply Chain Management (IC)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Manager, Supply Chain Management creates and validates demand plans for products, ensuring collaboration with leadership roles across logistics, transportation, replenishment, and store operations. This role involves strategic alignment of processes and work to ensure a smooth flow of goods into and out of distribution centers and stores.

Strong communication skills are essential to incorporate business intelligence into an optimized demand plan, which forms the core of operational planning. The role may also involve maintaining planning processes and feedback loops to translate demand plans into labor planning at distribution centers, ensuring cost-effective inventory flow.

The position requires detailed knowledge of operations, systems, and infrastructure to identify and mitigate risks, make cost-saving recommendations, and develop strategic frameworks for long-term planning. The role also includes leading daily forecasting requirements, flow planning, and supply chain initiatives across various functions, ensuring effective project management and communication.

Additionally, the Manager, Supply Chain Management explores new efficiencies and system enhancements to reduce costs and improve service. Building strong relationships with global business partners and stakeholders is essential for driving sustainable supply chain solutions and ensuring on-time, cost-competitive, and compliant operations.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of progressive supply chain experience, with demonstrated leadership across multiple areas of the end-to-end supply chain.
• Strong end-to-end supply chain acumen, including demand planning, forecasting, replenishment, inventory management, vendor performance, distribution, and store execution.
• Proven inventory and financial management experience, including ownership of inventory budgets, working capital, inventory productivity, in-stock and service-level performance.
• Retail industry experience, with a strong understanding of customer demand, merchandising cycles, promotions, seasonality and the relationship between availability, inventory and sales.
• Strong operational experience, with demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution, manage exceptions, resolve complex supply chain issues and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Cross-functional leadership capability, with experience influencing Merchandising, Operations, Logistics, Finance and supplier partners while using data and insights to drive end-to-end decisions and accountability.
  
  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 associated 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 (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
  
  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.

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Minimum Qualifications...

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Preferred Qualifications...

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

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