Senior Manager, Merchandising Planning

Position Summary...

The Senior Manager, Merchandising Planning leads the strategy, planning, and execution of merchandising programs, driving sales, profit, and inventory objectives while ensuring integration with eCommerce and other cross-functional teams.

What you'll do...

The Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning is responsible for driving sales, gross profit and inventory productivity across their portfolio. This role leads the development of long-range and annual financial plans, partnering with Merchandising and cross-functional teams to shape business strategy based on market trends, consumer insights, competitive dynamics and internal business priorities. The Senior Manager translates these strategies into actionable financial plans and initiatives that support sustainable growth and profitability.

The Senior Manager owns the ongoing financial forecast, ensuring a clear and accurate view of business performance and proactively identifying risks, opportunities and gaps to plan. Through strong analytical capabilities and commercial judgment, this role develops and drives actions to close financial gaps, maximize opportunities and optimize inventory investments. This includes overseeing sales, gross profit, inventory, receipts and markdown plans, and making informed trade-offs to deliver financial objectives.

As a key strategic and financial partner to Merchandising, the Senior Manager provides insights and recommendations to inform assortment, pricing, promotional, inventory and go-to-market strategies. The role leverages internal performance data, external market intelligence and consumer trends to challenge assumptions, identify growth opportunities and influence business decisions.

Strong cross-functional partnership with Merchandising, Replenishment, Finance, Pricing and other stakeholders is essential to align priorities and execute strategies effectively.

The Senior Manager leads and develops a high-performing Planning team, establishing clear accountability, strengthening analytical and commercial capabilities, and fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and ownership. This includes championing AI, automation and evolving ways of working to simplify processes, improve decision-making and enable teams to focus on the activities that deliver the greatest business impact.

The role is accountable for communicating financial performance, key risks and opportunities, and recommended actions to senior leadership, ensuring transparency, alignment and disciplined execution against business objectives. The Senior Manager also upholds company values, policies and standards of ethics and integrity.

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; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

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

Serve our Customers:

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

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.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

The pay range for this position is $109,400.00 - $150,480.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

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L’échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 109,400.00 à 150,480.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l’expérience pertinente.

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Minimum Qualifications...

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

Age - 16 or older

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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