Senior Director, Program Management - Data Ventures

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

We are looking for a Senior Director, Program Management, to lead the operating model that connects priorities from strategy through execution and business impact. This role leads our Program Management organization, helping Data Ventures prioritize the right work, make better investment and sequencing decisions, manage dependencies, prepare the business for change, and ensure initiatives are delivering the outcomes intended. This is not a traditional PMO role centered on schedules, status reporting, meeting facilitation. The successful leader will be a systems thinker who can see across the portfolio, bring structure to ambiguity, surface tradeoffs early, and help senior leaders turn strategy into action.

About the team:

The Walmart Data Ventures team utilizes first-party data to create B2B solutions that enable merchants and suppliers to make informed decisions. Within this group, the Commercial Operations team supports scalable revenue growth by driving operational excellence, fostering stakeholder collaboration, and enhancing processes. The team works cross-functionally to implement strategies that improve efficiency and business outcomes. With strong business and financial expertise, members deliver measurable impact and continuously refine commercial operations to align with Walmart’s evolving objectives in a dynamic environment.

What you'll do:

Lead the Data Ventures portfolio operating model Connect strategy to execution

• Translate enterprise and business priorities into sequenced plans with clear outcomes, ownership, dependencies, and decision points.

Own end-to-end lifecycle orchestration

• Lead the team in strengthening lifecycle management across strategic intake, development, business readiness, commercialization, launch, stabilization, and ongoing performance.

Strengthen portfolio governance and decision-making

• Establish portfolio reviews and executive operating cadences that focus leadership attention on decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes rather than activity reporting.

Build a scalable program management capability

• Simplify portfolio and program processes and eliminate low-value coordination, reporting, and manual work.

Build and lead a high-performing organization

What you'll bring:

• Significant experience leading complex portfolio, program management, business operations, product operations, transformation, or related functions in a large-scale organization.

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and develop senior leaders.

• Deep experience translating strategy into executable plans and operating mechanisms.

• Strong portfolio management capabilities, including prioritization, governance, dependency management, investment/capacity planning, risk management, and performance measurement.

• Strong systems thinking with the ability to understand how decisions in one part of an organization affect the broader portfolio and customer experience.

• Ability to simplify complex information into clear choices and recommendations.

• Strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to move between strategic thinking and detailed problem solving.

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 Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's 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 (https://one.walmart.com/) .

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 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.

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field and 6 years' experience in program management, operations, or related field OR 8 years' experience

in program management, operations, or related field.

4 years' supervisory experience.

5 years' experience leading cross-functional project teams.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Merchandising, marketing, ecommerce, operations, logistics, supply chain, or related field

Masters: Business Administration

Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification, Six Sigma - Certification

Primary Location...

1601 SE 10th St, 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.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.