Position Summary...The Director, Commodity Risk Management develops and executes commodity risk management strategies, ensures compliance with company standards, and fosters continuous improvement. This role helps the business identify, measure, and manage commodity price risk, reduce forecast variability, and support stronger business decisions. The Director will initially focus on agriculture-related exposures, with the opportunity to expand into additional commodities over time. This highly visible role partners across business, finance, treasury, and accounting teams to translate complex market dynamics into clear recommendations, align pricing decisions with risk management and hedging strategies, and build a disciplined commodity risk management capability at enterprise scale.
What you'll do...- Develop and execute commodity risk management and hedging strategies aligned with business objectives, forecast needs, and enterprise risk appetite
- Advise the business on market trends, pricing decisions, exposure risks, structure, and financial statement impacts
- Partner across merchants, finance, treasury, and accounting to connect physical commodity exposures with financial risk management strategies
- Evaluate futures, options, swaps, and other instruments; monitor fundamentals including supply and demand, basis, forward curves, and macroeconomic trends
- Develop reporting on exposures, hedge strategy, scenarios, performance, and business implications
- Establish governance, controls, documentation, escalation protocols, and performance measurement for risk management activity
- Identify opportunities to improve forecasting accuracy, reduce volatility, and strengthen business planning
What you'll bring:
- Direct experience developing and executing commodity risk management strategies in beef, cattle, agriculture, food, retail, CPG, or another physical commodity environment
- Proven ability to develop and implement risk management strategies aligned with business objectives
- Strong knowledge of commodity markets, derivatives, basis risk, forward curves, hedge ratios, liquidity, and physical-to-financial exposure management
- Proven ability to advise senior leaders, simplify complex risk concepts, and influence decisions with data-driven insights
- Experience with market analysis, scenario modeling, position management, governance, and risk reporting
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills across commercial, finance, treasury, and controllership teams
- Experience managing external relationships with banks, brokers, advisors, exchanges, or commodity market participants
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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 $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, Finance, or related field and 5 years' experience in financial services, retail analytics, retail finance, or relevant area OR 7 years' experience in financial services, retail analytics, retail finance, or related area.
1 year's experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
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.
Master's degree in Business Administration or Finance, Strategic Planning, Using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office
Primary Location...703 Associate Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
