Director, Strategy & Transformation (Global Sourcing & Procurement)

About the Job

Position Summary: As the Director, Strategy & Transformation, you will help shape and advance Walmart’s Global Sourcing & Procurement strategy. You will turn enterprise priorities, market signals, and business challenges into clear strategic choices, practical plans, and measurable outcomes. Acting as a senior transformation leader, you will move seamlessly from problem framing to execution to improve value, trust, and resilience across the organization.

Location: Hong Kong or Bentonville

About The Team

The Strategy & Transformation team shapes enterprise Global Sourcing & Procurement priorities, proves high-value initiatives, and scales repeatable ways of working across teams, markets, and categories. Our team focuses on clearer choices, disciplined pilots, stronger governance, AI/digital enablement, and measurable enterprise impact. We foster a collaborative, forward-thinking environment designed to challenge the status quo and make future initiatives truly transformational.

About The Role

This is a high-visibility leadership role requiring a strategic professional who excels at turning ambiguous priorities into structured, actionable workplans. You will partner across a deeply matrixed network—including Sourcing, Procurement, Merchandising, Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance, and Technology—to define opportunities and build business cases. Success requires turning data and digital tools (like AI and advanced dashboards) into scalable playbooks, governance routines, and operating models that modernize how Walmart works globally.

What You'll Do

• Shape Strategy & Vision: Develop the long-term organizational vision and 5-year strategic execution plans. Perform continuous industry and market analysis to identify macro trends and clear enterprise options.
• Lead High-Priority Initiatives: Structure, prioritize, and drive ambiguous, cross-functional strategic initiatives and pilots from initial problem-framing through to full operational deployment.
• Deliver Data & Financial Intelligence: Build robust business cases, financial models, and decision-support materials. Synthesize complex internal and external datasets into actionable business narratives.
• Drive Scale & Process Improvement: Convert successful pilot initiatives into scalable playbooks, operating models, and repeatable capabilities. Oversee process improvement and evaluation projects across global business units.
• Navigate Change & Governance: Lead organizational change initiatives by assessing readiness, managing executive expectations, and establishing strong governance routines to ensure adoption across teams and markets.
• Cultivate Executive Partnerships: Actively influence decision-making and build alignment with senior officers (VPs, SVPs) and external suppliers to maximize the achievement of business goals.
• Champion AI & Digital Fluency: Conceptualize and deploy easy-to-use dashboards (PowerBI/Tableau) and leverage AI/automation tools to improve decision speed, tracking transparency, and operational quality.
• Uphold Corporate Ethics: Maintain an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance by supporting Walmart’s Open Door Policy.

What You'll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, or a related analytical field.
• Professional Experience: 6+ years of experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate analytics, retail merchandising, or operations management (OR 8+ years of experience in these fields if holding a non-related degree).
• Domain Expertise: Proven background working within retail, consumer products, sourcing, procurement, private brands, supply chain, or global market networks.
• People Leadership: 3+ years of direct team leadership and people management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or Supply Chain Management.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: 5+ years of experience guiding large, cross-functional teams through complex enterprise initiatives.
• Strategic Framework Mastery: Advanced familiarity with strategy frameworks such as portfolio prioritization, market entry, cost levers, make-vs-buy analysis, and long-range planning (LRP/AOP) cycles.

Required Competencies

• Strategic Architecture: The ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, evaluate trade-offs, and design practical long-term plans.
• Analytical Reasoning & Visualization: Expertise in extracting insights from large datasets using spreadsheets and digital visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional verbal and written skills with the ability to create concise, leadership-ready presentations for C-suite and officer-level stakeholders.
• Agile Project Leadership: A high-ownership mindset with the ability to independently manage milestones, map dependencies, mitigate risks early, and operate with limited direction.

This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities and qualifications for this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and is subject to change based on business needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being welcoming of all people.

Walmart doesn’t charge any recruitment or similar fee in the recruitment process, including but not limited to interview, offering, and onboarding.