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Position Overview:

Position Summary…
What you’ll do…
Senior Manager I, Sustainability Strategy, Walmart InHome

What you’ll do…

Walmart InHome delivers fresh groceries directly into customers’ kitchen or garage fridges. We’re a scrappy and entrepreneurial team that’s obsessed with simplifying shopping and finding ways to make our customers’ lives easier.

Walmart InHome has plans to expand aggressively, and we’re looking for an Sustainability Manager who has a passion for driving this growth.

• Test/develop sustainability models involving use/elimination of packaging, associate operations and customer in-app and IRL experience
• Craft business case proposals for funding/piloting innovative sustainability initiatives – from concept to scale
• Work closely with Walmart Sustainability team on meeting and exceeding corporate goals and compliance
• Creation of metrics data supporting optimization of environmental footprint across multiple data points
• Development of best-in-class packaging and supplies for InHome pilots and launches. Partner with Operations, Product, Design and Marketing to develop sustainability-focused products, processes and messaging.
• R&D with suppliers on prototyping and evaluation of technical capabilities. Partner with Supply Planning on vendor qualification and cost estimates.
• Creation of component specifications and quality standards
• Act as program manager on several fast-moving programs. Development of complex timelines and task ownership assignment/tracking

About you:

• 5-7 years experience in Sustainability, Product or Packaging Development, Program Management, Operations, or related field
• Deep understanding of and passion for environmental initiatives and experience in evaluation and alignment to corporate initiatives
• Self-starter, passionate about solving complex problems
• Program management with experience managing multiple project timelines
• Reporting out to senior management

Live our Values:

Culture Champion
• Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart’s commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.

Servant Leadership
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Embrace Change:

Curiosity & Courage
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Digital Transformation & Change
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Deliver for the Customer:

Customer Focus
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.

Strategic Thinking
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.

Focus on our Associates:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.

Collaboration & Influence
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Talent Management
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, 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.

Minimum Qualifications…
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

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

Primary Location…
250 Hudson St, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1006, United States of America

About Walmart
At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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.