Director, Project Management - Strategic Initiatives

Position Summary...This role is pivotal in shaping the strategic direction of the organization by leading high-impact projects, driving operational efficiency, and fostering innovation. The role partners with senior leadership to address complex business challenges and deliver actionable insights.

What You'll Do...

The role directs the successful execution of strategic projects, overseeing internal consulting efforts to develop and implement high-impact initiatives. This involves guiding teams through problem-solving, hypothesis development, and both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Utilizing data-driven insights to inform business decisions, the role ensures quality control by engaging subject matter experts and validating deliverables. Managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder communications is also a critical responsibility.

The role builds and maintains strong relationships with business leaders, acting as a trusted advisor and proactively identifying opportunities to accelerate priority strategic initiatives. Leading the scoping of projects, the role defines desired outcomes, timelines, approach, and governance. Maintaining a transparent prioritization framework, the role communicates tradeoffs to stakeholders and balances progress on various engagements.

Stakeholder management is another key focus, with the role building strong relationships across functions and levels to understand business needs and communicate progress. Presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership, the role influences organizational decision-making.

Developing and leading a high-performing team of internal consultants, the role trains and coaches team members on problem-solving, written communication, and business partnering. Fostering a high-performance culture, the role ensures a strong talent pipeline and leverages market research and analytics-based insights to inform opportunities and risks for the organization.

Leadership Expectations

Respect the Individual:

Builds high-performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Acts With Integrity

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts).

Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct and company policies; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, and models our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action, and enables others to do the same; holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware.

Serve Our Customers

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies.

Strive For Excellence

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in business or related field- Master’s or MBA preferred
• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, or strategy within a large retail or consumer organization
• 1-2 years of people leadership experience
• Strong analytical skills and structured strategic thinking
• Excellent communication skills- written and spoken Proficient in data analysis (excel) and presentation building (PowerPoint)
• Results-driven, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, innovative
• Strong team player and collaborator
• Experience in retail or CPG a plus
  
  

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age – 16 or older

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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