Senior Manager, Business Development, Long Range Planning & Strategy - Walmart Connect

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Senior Manager, Long Range Planning & Strategy Generalist - Walmart Connect

About Walmart Connect…
Walmart Connect is key to Walmart’s growth strategy. Walmart has built a ~$3 billion dollar closed-loop media business division of America’s largest omnichannel retailer. Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers, no matter where, how and when they shop. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-visibility team within the largest company in the world.

Walmart Connect is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for our suppliers, sellers, merchants, stores, GMs, brand advertisers, and agencies using our full funnel ad solutions that leverage Walmart’s in-store and online data. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service; these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, engage with Walmart consumers, and convert Walmart consumers to shoppers.

What You'll Do...
The Senior Manager, Long Range Planning and Strategy Generalist will join Walmart Connect’s (WMC) in-house Strategy team to help define WMC’s long-term business unit strategy, conduct industry analysis to drive actionable intelligence, and assess new monetization opportunities. The WMC Strategy team is envisioning the future of WMC and its important role within Walmart.

In this role, you will help formulate the future of retail advertising by identifying, evaluating, and articulating strategies to grow WMC. You will stand out if you have 5-7+ years of consulting, banking, research, and/or corporate strategy experience within the technology, retail, media or advertising industries and have a deep capacity for managing multiple high-profile projects. We will need your industry curiosity and understanding, strategic mindset, and analytical skills to support the definition and evaluation of opportunities to grow WMC. This role entails strategy definition, financial analysis, and industry analysis, while identifying actionable insights for WMC leadership and Walmart executives. Critical thinking, resourcefulness and strong attention to detail are required skill sets. Experience supporting the creation of leadership materials is a must.

Come join the team if you are…

• Passionate about technology, retail, media or advertising including trends and competition

• A critical thinker with the ability to distill complicated concepts into actionable insights

• Understand how to evaluate & extract insights using research, data collection, and analysis

• Experienced in creating or contributing to executive level communications and presentations

• Constantly thinking about the customer experience first

• Able to clearly articulate insights through writing across formats, including newsletters and whitepapers

• A cross functional pro: adept at project management & coordination while working with various team members to evaluate opportunities in the context of current/future roadmaps

Key Duties & Responsibilities…

• Independently conduct industry and competitive analysis, including evaluation of earnings reports, company filings, industry reports, and more

• Support creation of internal Weekly Industry Newsletters and Quarterly and Annual Industry Reports

• Conduct ad hoc analysis, including Landscape Analysis, Marketing Sizing, Comparable Company Analysis, and more

• In some instances, evaluate new strategies and opportunities for WMC, including market