Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management
Walmart CanadaPosition Summary... The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management is responsible for strategic design and operations of supply chain processes, ensuring efficient flow, inventory management, and on-shelf availability. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to optimize delivery, manage costs, and drive continuous improvement. What You'll Do... The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management leads the planning and execution of supply chain strategies, including long-range planning and annual operating plans. This position focuses on optimizing delivery networks, improving efficiency, and ensuring best-in-class delivery experiences. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, such as finance, merchandise planning, merchandising, and operations, is essential in developing and executing these strategies. This role also drives business opportunities by identifying and assessing program feasibility, evaluating financial and physical performance, and implementing best practices from the industry. The Senior Manager may act as a subject matter expert, providing insights and developing benchmarking initiatives to enhance supply chain processes. Additionally, this role supports system solutions for new features, working with product and engineering teams to address critical business issues. The Senior Manager is responsible for developing and managing budgets, business cases for strategic projects, and coaching teams that manage delivery service providers and store operations. Ensuring the smooth flow of goods involves working collaboratively with various teams to resolve capacity constraints, develop mitigation activities, and guide executive team members through major decisions. This role may also oversee planning and execution for large promotional events and handle complex stakeholder relationships to drive continuous improvement in supply chain management Qualifications Supply Chain focused education 7-10 years of progressive experience in supply chain, inventory management, replenishment, logistics 3-5 years of leadership experience managing teams, projects, or complex cross-functional initiatives. Experience developing and executing supply chain strategies, annual operating plans, and long-range business plans. Strong financial acumen, including experience developing business cases, managing budgets, evaluating ROI, and driving cost optimization. Proven ability to influence senior leaders and lead decision-making through data-driven recommendations. Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using operational metrics and KPIs to drive performance improvements. Strong communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership capabilities. Leadership Expectations Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members. Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments. Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action. Acts With Integrity Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; su…