Manager, Marketing Planning And Strategy

Manager, Marketing Planning And Strategy

Multiple locations Bentonville, AR: $80,000 - $155,000/yr Hoboken, NJ: $96,000 - $186,000/yr Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary...

Are you ready to shape how sellers understand and choose Walmart Marketplace? We're looking for a Marketing Manager to steward and scale our Marketplace narrative framework and build the enablement systems that bring it to life across seller-facing moments - including events, one-to-one conversations, pitch decks, and more. In this role, you will serve as the central steward of the Walmart Marketplace story, ensuring messaging is consistently applied, reinforced, and adopted across the organization. You will operationalize processes that drive messaging discipline, establish visibility into how our narrative is used in field, and enable our teams to confidently and effectively tell a clear, compelling, and claims-backed story. About the team: Your work will directly support seller acquisition, conversion, and category growth by ensuring a consistent and credible Marketplace narrative across all seller touchpoints. As part of a seller marketing strategy team within our seller events, communication and marketing group, you'll also contribute to campaigns, initiatives, and cross-functional programs that help third-party sellers of all sizes understand and engage with the Walmart Marketplace opportunity.

What You'll Do...

• Maintain and govern the Marketplace narrative framework to ensure consistency across messaging pillars, category narratives, and proof points.
• Operationalize messaging governance and tracking, including an org-wide brand scorecard to monitor adoption and effectiveness.
• Own claims governance end-to-end, maintaining a centralized, compliant, and audit-ready claims library.
• Architect and scale the sales enablement ecosystem, ensuring strong version control, access, and adoption.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to embed consistent messaging across seller-facing teams.
• Support field-facing storytelling for products, programs, and category priorities.
• Help develop and refine total Marketplace and category-level narratives.
• Establish KPIs and insights to measure and optimize messaging impact.

What You'll Bring:

• 6–8 years in content, product marketing, or content strategy in B2B/SaaS/marketplaces; brand or agency experience preferred.
• Experience maintaining messaging frameworks and driving adoption of claims-backed enablement systems.
• Strong narrative skills, translating complex concepts into clear, seller-facing storylines for our copy team.
• Experience partnering with Legal/PR/Finance to substantiate and govern claims.
• Experience building systems that drive messaging consistency and visibility (e.g., scorecards, governance models).
• Strong project management across multiple workstreams in fast-paced environments.
• Analytical mindset with ability to link messaging to business outcomes; familiarity with Airtable, CRM tools, and analytics.
• Passion for empowering sellers.
• Nice to have: Marketplace or eCommerce experience; basic design literacy (Figma/Slides); Airtable experience.

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.

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 Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field and 1 year's experience in marketing or related field OR 5 years' experience in marketing or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Marketing or related field Masters: Business Administration

Primary Location...

1601 SE 10th St, 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.