Senior Manager, Global Communications - Walmart Connect

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join the Global Communications team at Walmart and make an impact not only on the future of retail, but on topics and issues the entire world is watching. The Global Communications team makes things happen. Come with an ability to identify problems and offer solutions — quickly, autonomously and with vast foresight. Bring your ability to see projects end to end and envision the full picture. Engage your analytical mind to find creative solutions to significant issues. And ignite your communication skills to work collaboratively and sell extensive ideas. 

The Senior Manager, Global Communications, is a strategic thinker and communicator, thirsting for something new each day. This role supports our 360-communications strategy for Walmart Connect, our company’s multi-billion-dollar retail media business in the U.S. You’ll help to author the story of Walmart Connect’s journey to becoming a top advertising platform in one of the most exciting – and rapidly growing – areas of the media industry.

This Senior Manager role will specialize in becoming the “voice of advertiser” for our team, making sure our advertiser-facing updates speak directly to their needs and interests. The “voice of advertiser” will focus primarily on business and product-related communications, while supporting owned content and media relations. You’ll join a team of seasoned communicators who manage their vertical centers of excellence while flexing their muscles horizontally across all workstreams, all reporting to the Communications Director for Walmart Connect. Expect a mix of proactive projects and reactive inbounds. The ideal candidate will be hungry to learn the business, comfortable in a crisis, hawkish for efficiency (both with processes and prose,) while always on the lookout for a relevant story to bring to life.

We are part of a broader communications team supporting the Chief Growth Officer, under Walmart’s Global Communications organization. As an office-based team, we operate out of Walmart’s San Bruno, Hoboken, and Bentonville offices.

You’ll make an impact by: 

• Bringing your knowledge of the retail media space or quickly becoming fluent with the needs and interests of advertisers and partners.
• Providing strategic communications counsel to stakeholders within the business, especially for situations not solved by current playbooks. Your ability to jump in with executive presence and a strategic mindset is key. 
• Getting to know your “customers.” Learn and measure the most effective ways to communicate with key audiences (from messaging to channel distribution) to achieve desired impact. This role will be helping the organization to adopt a new internal communications tool, meaning you’ll help to reimagine how we distribute critical updates to the sales team. 
• Meaningfully collaborating with cross-functional teams to advance objectives – including sales, product management and product marketing, marketing, and training teams, product, legal, and colleagues across the enterprise. This role is highly dependent on relationships with cross-functional colleagues.
• Establishing clear processes – or optimize existing workflows – with business partners and setting shared priorities. 
• Having a 360-degree communications mindset. The visibility you’ll have from your center of excellence can help to shape our owned content and media relations, which you will help to drive.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if: 

• You have a deep understanding of retail media, or the advertising and ad tech industry at large, and the current challenges facing marketers. Or, if you have a demonstrated track record of quickly develop subject-matter expertise in new industries and developing fluenc