Senior Manager, Technology Operations - Portfolio ...

Senior Manager of Portfolio Management & Intelligence

As a Senior Manager of Portfolio Management & Intelligence, you will lead strategic execution, governance, and insights delivery across Walmart's Global Technology Portfolio. This role blends structured portfolio operations with automation, GenAI-driven reporting, and stakeholder engagement to enable transparency, alignment, and executive decision-making at scale. You'll partner across Product, Engineering, Program, and Data teams to identify bottlenecks, unlock value, and ensure work aligns to strategy. This team supports Walmart's Global Technology Portfolio, enabling strategic alignment and operational excellence across international markets. You'll work with teams spanning multiple geographies and disciplines to deliver scalable solutions that drive business impact.

About Team: Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.

What you'll do:

• Portfolio Governance & Planning: Lead intake, prioritization, and quarterly planning across cross-functional teams. Use tools like Jira and Smartsheet to maintain execution rigor and visibility. Facilitate executive portfolio reviews and align workstreams to strategy, capacity, and business objectives.
• Insights & Reporting Intelligence: Build automated dashboards and reporting pipelines using Power BI, Tableau, and GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini). Translate complex data into clear, actionable intelligence for senior leaders. Track delivery health, ROI, and OKRs using structured frameworks.
• Tooling, Automation & AI Enablement: Drive adoption of modern portfolio tools and AI automation. Partner with engineering and architecture teams to automate data flows and reporting. Use GenAI and Agentic AI to distill data, automate status updates, and improve productivity.
• Change Management & Global Execution: Lead tool rollouts and process changes with structured training and onboarding. Influence adoption of new technologies across teams and collaborate with international partners to scale reporting frameworks globally.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Communication: Present strategies and performance insights to executive leadership with clarity and credibility. Influence cross-functional teams to drive accountability and alignment. Facilitate forums that foster transparency and resolve delivery roadblocks.

What you'll bring:

• Experience: 68 years in portfolio management, strategy execution, or tech operations, including strategy consulting.
• Ideal candidates will bring experience in strategy consulting and portfolio management, with the ability to combine structured thinking, technical fluency, and strong executive presence.
• Tool Proficiency: Expertise in Jira, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet.
• GenAI Tools: Experience applying GenAI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to automate reporting and generate insights.
• Analytics & Communication: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent executive communication and storytelling.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Data Science, or related field. Advanced degree (MBA/MS) a plus.
• Experience supporting international teams or market-level operations.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe frameworks and enterprise planning models.
• Knowledge of GenAI and Agentic AI prompt engineering and design.

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailers who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate on a scale that impacts millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work: We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove the location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. 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 inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications: Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, industrial engineering, engineering management, business, information systems, project/program management, information technology, finance, management, or related area and 5 years' experience in project management, program management, program operations, or related area. Option 2: 7 years' experience in project management, program management, program operations, or related area. 2 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in computer science, management information systems, industrial engineering, engineering management, business, information systems, project/program management, information technology, finance, management, or related area and 4 years' experience in project management, program management, program operations, or related area.

Primary Location: 840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America