Walmart

Manager, Operations - New Market Expansion - Walmart Data Ventures

Walmart$70K — $130K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, or Finance, or 2 years experience in a related field.
  • Experience supporting market expansion and operational transformations.
  • Ability to build trust and collaborate across diverse teams.
  • Strong judgment balancing global standards with local market needs.
  • Experience working in ambiguous environments to create structure.
  • Skilled in synthesizing information into actionable items and influencing cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Support readiness planning and launch preparation across markets.
  • Translate expansion plans into actionable activities for cross-functional teams.
  • Develop operational processes and best practices for efficient market expansion.
  • Identify operational gaps and coordinate readiness for ongoing operations.
  • Partner with local stakeholders to coordinate implementation and maintain alignment with organizational standards.
  • Identify business trends and contribute recommendations for expansion.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) and stock purchase options.
  • Paid time off including parental leave, bereavement, and jury duty.
  • Short-term and long-term disability and company discounts.
  • Education benefits covering tuition for various programs, including degrees and certifications.
Full Job Description
Role summary:

The Manager, New Market Expansion is a critical role within Data Ventures responsible for supporting market expansion initiatives and helping drive successful readiness, launch, and transition activities across new markets and banners. This role serves as a key partner across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Training, Account Management, and Business Development teams to help operationalize expansion efforts and support scalable growth. Reporting to the Senior Director of Operations, this role will support market or banner readiness activities, coordinate expansion workstreams, implement operational processes, and contribute to the successful scaling of Data Ventures products and capabilities across global markets.
What you'll do:
  • Support cross-functional readiness planning, launch preparation and market activation efforts.
  • Translate expansion plans into actionable workstreams, coordinate activities across teams, and ensure operational objectives are achieved.
  • Develop and implement operational processes, readiness tools, launch playbooks, and best practices that enable repeatable and efficient market expansion.
  • Support efforts to identify operational gaps, track value-driving requirements, coordinate readiness actions, and facilitate successful transition into ongoing operations.
  • Partner with local stakeholders to understand requirements, coordinate implementation activities, and support localization efforts while maintaining alignment with broader organizational standards.
  • Identify trends and opportunities across business and operational insights, contribute recommendations to inform expansion decisions.

What you'll bring:
  • Build relationships on trust, understand different perspectives, and collaborate effectively across teams.
  • Highly organized, intellectually curious, and able to synthesize information into actionable next steps.
  • Experience supporting market expansion, business launches, operational transformations, or cross-functional initiatives.
  • Strong judgment and ability to balance global standards with local market requirements.
  • Experience in ambiguous environments to help create structure and momentum where needed.
  • Take feedback to action by incorporating stakeholder input and market learnings into operational improvements.
  • Effectively influence and collaborate with cross-functional partners without direct authority.
  • Adapt quickly and can manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on outcomes.
  • Energized by helping teams launch, scale, and continuously improve.


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 $70,000.00 - $130,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

- Stock

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2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
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Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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