Merchant - Dish Care

Position Summary...

As a Merchant, you will lead category strategy and financial management for a moderately complex category, driving pricing, assortment, and supplier decisions to meet business objectives. This role requires collaboration across channels to optimize customer experience and deliver value through data-driven insights and operational excellence. You will manage a team, oversee budgeting and forecasting, and support product development while ensuring alignment with company standards and policies. Your leadership will foster continuous improvement, innovation, and a customer-centric approach to achieve sustainable growth and profitability.

About the team:

The Household Essentials team is dedicated to winning the trip by delivering a compelling assortment, unbeatable value, and a fast, easy shopping experience that earns customer trust weekly. Focused on accelerating market share, the team drives category strategy, pricing, and supplier management while leveraging data and customer insights. Collaboration and a supportive culture foster strong performance and continuous improvement. Team members engage in decision-making, financial management, and assortment planning to meet business goals, ensuring a customer-centric approach across all channels with adaptability and commitment to excellence.

What you'll do...

• Develop and execute category strategies aligned with long-term business objectives, incorporating market trends and customer insights.

• Manage profit and loss responsibilities, including pricing, promotions, and inventory decisions to meet financial targets.

• Lead supplier negotiations, establish performance metrics, and oversee supplier relationships to ensure optimal terms and execution.

• Drive channel strategy decisions and collaborate with supply chain partners to optimize product availability and customer experience.

• Oversee team performance, provide coaching, and foster a results-driven work environment.

• Utilize data analysis to inform decisions and continuously improve category performance.

• Support assortment planning, modular layouts, and promotional feature execution across channels.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience in category strategy development and execution for moderately complex categories.

• Strong financial management skills, including profit and loss ownership and budget forecasting.

• Expertise in supplier management, negotiation, and performance tracking.

• Ability to analyze market trends, customer behavior, and competitive landscape to inform decisions.

• Proficiency in assortment planning, pricing strategies, and promotional execution.

• Demonstrated team management capabilities, including coaching, mentoring, and performance evaluation.

• Skilled in leveraging data analytics and digital tools to drive business insights and improvements.

• Commitment to ethical standards, integrity, and supporting company values.

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 $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.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising , or related field and 3 years’ experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Microsoft Office, Negotiating with third-party suppliers, Supervisory experience

Masters: Business, Masters: Merchandising

Primary Location...

601 Respect 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.

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.