Senior Manager, Sourcing - Commodity Insights, Surety of Supply

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Senior Manager, Sourcing - Commodity Insights, Surety of Supply supports efforts to reinvent who we partner with and how we work collaboratively to drive surety over longer time horizons. Support our partners to establish cost transparency and fact-based analysis for commodity trends. Uses in-depth understanding of component pricing to provide commodity-based opportunities and lead our journey on centralized commodity tracking. You will report to the Director of Surety of Supply, Commodity Insights, and the position is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.

About Walmart Surety of Supply:

The Surety of Supply team accelerates and scales Walmart’s efforts to build supply resilience for key categories. We work across all business units in close collaboration with merchants and Sourcing Managers as well as teams in Private Brands, sustainability, technology, manufacturing, and beyond.

What you'll do:

• Be the commodity expert to support centralized commodity tracking on commodities & cost trend analysis.
• Help sourcing run teams/merch partners to understand commodity impacts.
• Support sourcing run teams to establish more transparent costing structures, provide fact-based levers and insights for events, contracts, LTA and other ad hoc activities.
• Work with run teams, product, tech, supplier solutions and other cross functional teams to develop and define datasets, logic, use cases for centralized commodity analytics tool.
• Support commodity trend forecast and deep dive analysis.
• Lead capacity building, process improvement, and ways-of-working evolutions with your peers and beyond.
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership that enhances belonging in the organization.

You’ll Sweep Us off our Feet if you have….

• Outstanding communication & interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• 4+ years of experience in raw material & manufacturing or commodity analytics
• Excellent relationship management and influence skills
• Good retail and general business acumen

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 leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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