Walmart

Director, Marketing Planning and Strategy - Walmart ConnectInternational

Walmart$132K — $264K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10+ years in integrated marketing, B2B marketing, content strategy, events, or brand marketing.
  • Experience leading cross-functional marketing initiatives across diverse stakeholders.
  • Strong executive writing, storytelling, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to craft strategic positioning and executive narratives effectively.
  • Proven influence across matrixed organizations without direct authority.
  • Strong program management and organizational leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary marketing partner to Walmart Connect leaders in Canada, Mexico, and Chile.
  • Deeply understand each market's business strategy, commercial priorities, and advertiser needs.
  • Represent international market priorities in U.S. marketing planning.
  • Identify and scale successful marketing ideas and campaigns across various markets.
  • Foster collaboration between U.S. and international marketing teams.
  • Lead strategic narratives and market positioning for Walmart Connect International.
  • Oversee international event strategies and manage flagship events and partnerships.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) with company match, stock purchase options, and paid life insurance.
  • Robust paid time off policies including parental, family care, and bereavement leave.
  • Education benefits covering tuition, books, and fees for various programs.
  • Access to short-term and long-term disability insurance and company discounts.
Full Job Description
Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Director of Marketing, Walmart Connect International

Position Summary

The Director of Marketing, Walmart Connect International leads the strategy, planning and integration of marketing across Walmart Connect's international business, currently supporting Canada, Mexico and Chile, with the flexibility to expand into additional markets as Walmart Connect grows globally.

Reporting into Walmart Connect Marketing, with a dotted-line relationship to Walmart Connect International leadership, this role serves as the strategic connector between across global marketing organizations.

The Director partners closely with the Walmart Connect Marketing leads in each market as their primary day-to-day counterparts while collaborating with country General Managers, commercial leadership and cross-functional teams.

This role has a two-way mandate:

  • Bring the best of Walmart Connect marketing, content, campaigns, training and enablement, and capabilities into international markets through thoughtful localization.


  • Represent the priorities, customer insights, business strategies and innovations of international markets within the Walmart Connect marketing organization, ensuring they influence planning, messaging, content development, product launches and executive communications.


The role is responsible for strengthening connectivity across markets, enabling knowledge sharing, creating scalable marketing and training programs, and ensuring Walmart Connect presents a consistent global brand while allowing each market to differentiate where it matters most.

Key Responsibilities

International Marketing Strategy & Market Partnership

  • Serve as the primary marketing partner to Walmart Connect Marketing leaders across Canada, Mexico and Chile.


  • Develop deep understanding of each market's business strategy, commercial priorities, advertiser needs and competitive landscape.


  • Represent international market priorities within U.S. Walmart Connect Marketing planning, ensuring global initiatives reflect regional business needs.


  • Identify opportunities to scale successful ideas, campaigns and innovations across markets.


  • Build stronger collaboration between international markets and the U.S. marketing organization.


  • Support expansion into future Walmart Connect international markets as the business grows.


Narrative Development & Market Positioning

  • Own the strategic marketing narrative for Walmart Connect International.


  • Develop market-specific positioning that aligns with the global Walmart Connect brand while reflecting local customer needs.


  • Partner with country marketing leaders to define annual messaging priorities.


  • Develop messaging frameworks, value propositions and positioning guides for each market based on the global value proposition


  • Ensure consistency across executive communications, customer presentations, product launches and sales materials.


  • Continuously refine messaging based on customer feedback, competitive intelligence and market insights.


International Events

  • Develop the international events strategy across Walmart Connect markets.


  • Lead flagship customer events, executive engagements, partner summits and industry conferences.


  • Build repeatable planning frameworks that can scale across multiple markets.


  • Ensure all events reinforce Walmart Connect's strategic narrative while reflecting local business priorities.


  • Partner with agencies, production vendors and cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional experiences for international/tentpole events; share playbooks and best practices for local Marketing teams to leverage for local production.


  • Manage tentpole event budgets and program performance.


Training, Enablement & Best Practice Sharing

  • Partner with WMC U.S. Training, Education & Development, Product Marketing, and market teams to define and deliver scalable learning and enablement support for WMC International.


  • Identify common and market-specific capability needs, adapting global content, tools, and programs to reflect local business priorities, product maturity, and commercial requirements.


  • Drive awareness, adoption, and effective use of available learning resources, including learning-hub content, self-service modules, playbooks, and other enablement materials, across markets and functions.


  • Establish mechanisms to capture, codify, and scale best practices and market learnings, while measuring enablement effectiveness and translating insights into continuous improvements.


Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Partner closely with Product Marketing, Communications, Sales, Creative, Operations and Legal.


  • Coordinate planning across U.S. and international marketing organizations.


  • Build trusted relationships with Walmart Connect Marketing leads in each market as well as General Managers and commercial leadership.


  • Drive integrated planning, governance, workback schedules and executive communications.


  • Create visibility across markets to improve collaboration, reduce duplication and accelerate execution.


Program Management & Measurement

  • Develop integrated annual marketing calendars across international markets.


  • Define success metrics across content, campaigns, executive engagement, events and enablement.


  • Measure business impact through customer engagement, pipeline influence, content adoption, brand awareness and stakeholder satisfaction.


  • Track adoption of shared marketing programs and best practices across markets.


  • Continuously identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability and collaboration.


Qualifications

Required Experience

  • 8-10+ years of experience in integrated marketing, B2B marketing, content strategy, events, communications or brand marketing.


  • Experience leading cross-functional marketing initiatives across multiple stakeholders and geographies.


  • Strong executive writing, storytelling and presentation development skills.


  • Experience developing strategic positioning and executive narratives.


  • Proven ability to influence without direct authority across matrixed organizations.


  • Strong program management and organizational leadership skills.


Preferred Experience

  • Retail media, advertising, commerce media or technology experience.


  • International or global marketing experience.


  • Experience supporting multiple countries or regions.


  • Spanish language proficiency preferred.


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.

The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00 - $264,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

- Stock








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, Marketing, Communications, or related field and 4 years' experience in marketing or related field OR 7 years'experience in marketing or related field.
1 year's supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional projects.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Leading cross-functional projects, Marketing, Supervisory

Masters: Business Administration

Primary Location...

221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America

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Market Cap
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Net Income
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Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
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