Senior Manager, Manufacturing Strategy & Operations

Position Summary... What you'll do... Strategic Planning and Business Design: Designs the business unit strategy in alignment with Walmart’s global objectives and value proposition. Develops and implements business plans to drive growth, productivity, quality, and service excellence across manufacturing operations. Establishes business intelligence frameworks to monitor Optical Lab trends, enabling proactive decision-making. Implements operational improvements by developing and executing strategic business plans for operations and production, forecasting staffing needs, and monitoring facility performance against the needs of the business. Manages financial aspects in operations and production by preparing budgets. Monitors and tracks expenses compared to budget. Reviews and approves purchases. Monitors the management of assets and utilization strategies. Prepares, reviews, and/or analyzes business reports. Operational Excellence and Compliance: Ensures manufacturing processes meet safety, efficiency, and quality standards, particularly within Optical Lab processing operations. Monitors and ensures compliance with company policies, procedures and directives by developing, distributing, and/or maintaining procedures and supporting documentation. Resolves internal/external customer and associate concerns. Oversees state-specific and federal regulatory procedures (for example, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), hazardous waste management). Inventory and Merchandise Flow Management: Designs inventory management guidelines to ensure order fulfilment while minimizing shrinkage and costs. Manages merchandise flow strategies to optimize Optical Lab space utilization. Ensures product integrity during store delivery to avoid markdowns. Market and Retail Strategy Execution: Advises Procurement on sourcing needs to meet market demand. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, providing resources, identifying performance standards, measuring progress, adjusting performance accordingly, developing contingency plans, demonstrating adaptability, and supporting continuous learning. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance, and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives. Consults with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders. Solicits, evaluates, and applies suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness. Participates in and supports community outreach events. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training, mentoring, assigning duties, and building a team-based work environment. Establishes performance expectations and conducts regular pperformance evaluations. Provides recognition and rewards. Coaches for success and improvement. Promotes a belonging mindset in the workplace. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging; creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; helps to attract the best talent. Respect the Individual: Works as a team; builds strong and trusting relationships; communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping, developing and mentoring others; recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments. Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us. Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first. Serve our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based reliable information; balances short- and long-term priorities; and considers how own work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders. Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn; takes calculated risks; and demonstrates courage and resilience. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements; is open to and uses new technologies? and skills; and supports others through change. 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 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 $92,050.00 - $170,950.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location) - Stock ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ‎ Minimum Qualifications... Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. 4 years of senior management experience (i.e., supervises other managers) in a manufacturing, optical, facility/plant operations, distribution, or logistics environment OR 1 year experience as a Wal-Mart Optical Area Manager (level II) OR 2 years senior management experience (i.e., supervises other managers) as a Wal-Mart manager (non-optical) Preferred Qualifications... Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or Engineering., Previous experience in optical manufacturing., Previous experience managing budgets, profit and loss, or other financial responsibilities., Previous experience with manufacturing optimization procedures (for example, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizan, Continuous Improvement, Process Control, 5-S), Project management experience Bachelors: Business, Bachelors: Computer Engineering Primary Location... 9029 Directors Row, Dallas, TX 75247-5322, 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. About Walmart: Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and create a career you're proud of.