Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Retail Media

Position Summary...

Walmart Connect (WMC) is seeking a highly motivated Manager, Strategic Partnerships (Retail Media) to join our in-house Strategy team. In this pivotal role, you will identify, evaluate, and accelerate new revenue opportunities through complex partnerships and support long-term strategic initiatives. You will help shape the future of retail media by driving high-impact, cross-functional projects and building strategic alliances that fuel WMC’s growth.

What you'll do...

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the identification, evaluation, and execution of strategic partnerships to drive business development and long-term value for WMC.

• Conduct market opportunity sizing, competitive analysis, capability benchmarking, build/buy/partner analyses, proof of concept testing, and business case development to support new initiatives.

• Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product, finance, legal, and operations—to align on partnership strategies and ensure seamless execution.

• Manage multiple, high-visibility projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Develop executive-level presentations and leadership materials to communicate recommendations and progress to senior executive stakeholders.

• Support long-term strategy projects with financial modeling, competitive research, and whitepaper development.

Who You Are:

• Experienced in building and managing complex partnerships, ideally within the technology, retail, media, or advertising sectors.

• Skilled at influencing and aligning cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.

• Adept at juggling multiple projects and priorities, with a proven ability to deliver results under tight deadlines.

• Analytical and strategic, with strong financial modeling and scenario planning skills.

• Exceptional communicator, comfortable presenting to and influencing executive leadership.

• Resourceful, intellectually curious, and passionate about driving innovation in retail media while constantly thinking about the customer experience first.

Qualifications:

• 2-3+ years’ experience in investment banking, consulting, corporate strategy, or business development, with a strong focus on strategic partnerships.

• Demonstrated success in cross-functional project management and partnership execution.

• Strong analytical, research, and presentation skills.

Location:

• This role is based in Hoboken, NJ, or San Bruno, CA, with an in-person work culture.

About Walmart Connect:

• At Walmart, we enable the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. As primary stewards of our brand promise, "Save Money. Live Better," we work alongside some of the most talented people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us. This is a unique opportunity to join a small, high-visibility team within the largest company in the world. We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable and we have Walmart’s sales data to prove it.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being welcoming of all people.

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-t