Senior Director, Talent Acquisition – Executive Recruiting

Position Summary...

About the Team
Our Global Talent and Learning organization is transforming to meet the needs of the future of retail, ensuring that Walmart is that place in which people can grow their careers, and our organization ensures the best experience for the talent we manage and optimal service to the business. Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global Talent Acquisition teams to influence talent strategy, optimize the recruiting process, and enable the business to make the best hiring decisions. This is that place where your passions meet purpose.

About the Role
As the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting, you will have the unique opportunity to influence the future leadership landscape of Walmart. You will report directly to the Global Head of Executive Recruiting. Your key responsibilities will include understanding the needs of the business and closely partnering with Global Talent and Learning’s Talent Management function to deliver a world class executive hiring process. This includes leveraging your deep market expertise, knowledge of the executive talent landscape, and experience attracting and hiring executive level talent. Furthermore, you will manage strategic partnerships with our vetted executive recruiting firms, ensuring we have relationships with the best to secure exceptional leaders.

What you'll do...

• Work with the business to identify hiring needs at the Officer level. Understand the role, the capabilities needed for success now, and in the near future. Serve as the expert to guide the decision-making process of moving forward with an external search or identifying internal talent to fill the role.
• Partner closely with the talent management function to build candidate slates that include internal talent.
• Build tight partnerships with external agencies that have consistently delivered successful candidates to the business. Serve as a liaison to the agency and the business to “white glove” the process from identifying the talent need to serving up candidates. Hold our partner agencies to KPIs to ensure quality delivery.
• Interface with Senior Leadership to understand the talent needs while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality and understanding sensitivity of searches Live Walmart Values and serve as a brand ambassador when engaging with candidates and the external market.
• Stay updated with market trends, compensation benchmarks, and talent movements within the industry; conduct regular market analysis to identify potential candidates. Leverage data and insights to influence successful searches.
• Manage and evolve the processes for executive recruiting to ensure a world-class experience that delights the business and candidates.
• Partner with Talent Management team to proactively pipeline internal and external talent.

What you'll bring…

• Talent management background, understanding the capabilities needed in Walmart and in the business leadership.
• A partnership mindset, knowing how to seamlessly collaborate with our internal and external partners.
• Experience in recruitment, preferably at senior leadership levels with a mix of in-house Corporate (Retail industry not required, but a plus) ; external search experience.
• A passion for creating a high touch, white glove experience for our candidates.
• A highly detail-oriented way of working and unafraid to get into the process details to ensure a seamless experience.
• A thought leader who can bring new ideas to the function, including how AI can accelerate our work in this space.

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-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leav