(USA) Director, Program Management

Location: (USA) Sparky Building AR Bentonville Home Office

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Position Summary...

What youll do...

Role summary:
This role sits within Walmart’s Workforce Transformation team and helps drive enterprise workforce and organization priorities from insight through execution. You will lead work across Speed and Structure, workforce transitions, organizational effectiveness, and enterprise planning, partnering closely with People, Finance, Workforce Intelligence and Insights, Total Rewards, and business leaders. The role requires strong analytical judgment, program leadership, and the ability to turn complex data and stakeholder input into clear decisions and actions. You will also help improve the processes, tools, and governance that support large-scale organizational change and strengthen how Walmart plans, structures, and evolves its workforce effectively at scale.
About the team:
The Workforce Transformation team helps Walmart translate business priorities into workforce and organization decisions. We build the evidence and frameworks that inform those decisions and manage the human side of complex transitions, whether driven by AI, organizational restructuring, or M&A integration. Our role is to connect business strategy to workforce strategy and help Walmart evolve its workforce and ways of working with rigor, speed, and care for our associates.
What youll do:

• Lead enterprise Speed and Structure reviews, partnering with Workforce Intelligence and Insights to assess headcount, spans, layers, ratios, attrition, and other workforce signals.
• Coordinate enterprise deliverables, resolve data and organizational questions, and surface critical issues for senior leadership.
• Program manage workforce transitions, including timelines, expectations, communications, stakeholder coordination, and contingency planning.
• Improve M&A and workforce transition processes, using operational metrics, customer feedback, and AI where appropriate.
• Connect workforce inputs into AOP, LRP, and Total Rewards planning.
• Support organization design tools, enterprise structure changes, benchmarking, modeling, and development of practical playbooks for large-scale organizational change.

What youll bring:

• Proven expertise leading complex, enterprise-wide programs from problem definition through decision and execution.
• Strong analytical and strategic judgment, with the ability to synthesize workforce, organizational, and business data into clear recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, anticipate risks and dependencies, and adapt quickly as priorities change.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder leadership skills, including influencing senior leaders, building cross-functional alignment, and simplifying complex topics.
• Experience improving processes, governance, and operating mechanisms to drive measurable outcomes at scale.
• Ability to lead through influence, create accountability, and build strong partnerships across teams and functions without formal authority in complex enterprise environments effectively.

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. 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field and 5 years’ experience in data management, business analytics, statistics, or related area OR 7 years’ experience in data analysis, statistics, computer science, or related area. 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Retail Operations

Masters: Analytics, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location...

806 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.