Senior Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives

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What you'll do...

What you'll do...  The Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer services. The Collectibles team is a rapidly growing category within Walmart’s Marketplace.    The Senior Manager, Planning & Programs within Marketplace Strategic Initiatives will be responsible for managing planning and key growth initiatives to support marketplace sales for the Collectibles division. You will create, maintain, and improve plans to ensure sales, profit and other financial goals are met. You will also serve as the program leader and key liaison for assortment health. This role will drive strategic alignment and innovation using data-driven insights, contributing significantly to the growth and success of Marketplace Collectibles.        You’ll sweep us off our feet if: 

• You are proactive and thrive in constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environment, acting with a sense of urgency and curiosity. 

• You have strong analytical skills and know how to identify and analyze data to drive decisions. 

• You love creative problem-solving and have experience thinking strategically to prioritize requirements and identify white space opportunities. 

• You know how to build and strengthen cross-functional partnerships. 

• You are organized, disciplined, and can independently identify steps required to move projects forward and deliver a positive outcome. 

• You have high standards and can hold others accountable. 

• You have experience working through change and can comfortably navigate ambiguity. 

   You’ll make an impact by: 

• Leading the divisional annual, quarterly and monthly planning process: in collaboration with finance and marketplace leadership, drive AOP (annual operating plan), forecast and weekly reporting process and inputs, and present outcomes for division, including tops-down and bottoms-up approach to meet goals.  

• Driving opportunity sizing and evaluation of new capabilities: develop analyses in support of new product launches and business concepts, to support prioritization; following key launches, analyze results in support of hindsight and future planning. 

• Partnering cross-functionally: build relationships with cross-functional partners to achieve aligned goals for the business; collaborate with WFS (Walmart fulfillment services) to identify opportunities and resolve blockers; collaborate with marketplace finance, analytics, leads and strategic account managers on planning and forecasting. 

• Perform analyses to evaluate and develop assortment strategies, partnering with cross-functional teams to develop and operationalize mission critical programs. Track/report performance and remove barriers and obstacles that impact performance. 

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