(USA) Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management - Freight Forwarding Expansion

(USA) Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management - Freight Forwarding Expansion

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary: The Senior Manager, Freight Forwarding Expansion leads the strategy and launch of freight forwarding operations across Walmart's growing global network. In this role, you'll operationalize Walmart entities for freight forwarding services that we offer to marketplace sellers. You will influence organizational change, leverage your technical acumen, and work collaboratively with human resources, operations, product, legal, tax, and controllership teams. Your leadership will be pivotal in advancing Walmart's operational excellence and sustaining competitive advantage in a high growth environment. The role is based in Bentonville and reports to the Senior Director of Global Logistics, Commercial Development. About the team: The team leads the development and growth of global logistics and international freight forwarding services, emphasizing convenience, reliability, and cost efficiency for marketplace sellers. It drives strategic initiatives in ocean and air freight consolidation while aligning commercial product roadmaps with Walmart's systems strategy. Collaborating across supply chain, marketplace, product, and engineering functions, the team delivers enterprise-wide programs, manages profit and loss, and achieves financial goals. Focused on accountability, integrity, and operational excellence, the team enhances Walmart's global logistics capabilities through innovative solutions and strong cross-functional partnerships.

What you'll bring:

• You are a self-starter with a builder mindset, learning and iterating while managing complexity in large and multi-threaded programs.
• You thrive at bringing order to ambiguity.
• You possess superior communication skills, flexibility, and ability to juggle multiple tasks to meet aggressive deadlines.
• You're experienced with executing cross functional projects without direct authority over the teams involved.
• You have a background in ocean freight, freight forwarding, supply chain, and cross border logistics process design.
• You have managed freight forwarding agent networks or wholly owned branches to ensure tax, accounting, compliance, and legal requirements are successfully delivered.

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 Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or related field and 4 years' experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area OR 6 years' experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area. 2 years' experience with advanced functionality of Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Dispatch, Fleet Management, Network Analysis, Retail Logistics Operations Masters: Business, Masters: Logistics, Masters: Supply Chain Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification, Six Sigma - Certification

Primary Location...

805 Respect, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.