(USA) Senior Manager, Belonging

Associate Resource Groups, Officer Caucuses, and Officer Advisor

This role will manage the end-to-end portfolio of Associate Resource Groups, Officer Caucuses, Constituency Partnerships, and Signature Events & Toolkits for the African American & Native American community at Walmart, as well as our NWA Community. Oversees:

• Black & African American Resource Group (BAARG)
• Tribal Voices Resource Group
• African American Officer Caucus
• Tribal Voices Officer Advisor
• Northwest Arkansas Welcome Committee

Supports ARGs and their initiatives to drive awareness, provide insights and build community with associates across the enterprise. Align and collaborate cross functionally to integrate ARG initiatives into broader organizational strategies. Nurture and build relationships between ARGs, Officer Caucuses, and Officer Advisors. Responsible for cultivating and leveraging constituency partnerships in the portfolio to maximize benefits for the business and associates.

Accountable for measuring, reporting and shaping initiatives within their portfolio and for defining project plans, providing status updates, day-to-day oversight for their assigned portfolio including budget management, contract negotiations, when applicable, and general support.

What You'll Do...

Lead assigned ARGs in the development of their annual business plans and ensure strategic alignment with Belonging Enterprise strategy

Implement governance for the ARGs, Officer Caucuses, and Advisors to align with Belonging principles

Advise Officer Advisors with constituency management, Belonging strategy, and Community

Support Officer Caucuses with administrative and communication tasks, membership metrics and records, member meetings and events while providing exceptional customer service and addressing inquires promptly

Signature Events & Key Belonging Dates

Lead a cross-functional and intersectional committee, develop project plans, manage logistics and execute signature events in the portfolio to deliver exceptional experiences for associates

Lead Key Belonging Date activations for your portfolio by developing resources for the belonging toolkits and driving awareness of enterprise initiatives (e.g. Black History Month Belonging Toolkit, Juneteenth Belonging Toolkit, MLK Day Event, MLK Day Toolkit, & Native American Heritage Month Belonging Toolkit)

Constituency Partnerships

Cultivate, steward, represent and serve as a key liaison for our constituency partnerships & NWA local external partnerships

Identify and cultivate opportunities for collaboration and engagement with partners

Develop a comprehensive list and calendar of key delivery dates for strategic partner requirements, including program cycle timelines, benchmarking dates, and major partner activation events

Overall

Plan and forecast budget for entire portfolio, including reporting back on actuals with their leadership, ARGs and Officer Caucuses

Facilitate the development of portfolio communications strategy, communications with leadership to drive awareness & deliver on key initiatives for your portfolio

Implement measurement tools as designed by Director, Belonging for impact and effectiveness of portfolio initiatives

Manage project plans within the portfolio, based on agile methodology

Partner across the enterprise to integrate portfolio into business guidance and practices

Must Be Able to Demonstrate:

• Stakeholder Orientation: ability to prioritize the needs of stakeholders and foster custom relationships or experiences to ensure satisfaction with our products, services, or solutions
• Problem Solving: Utilize resources and various inputs in decision making, deal with disputes in balanced way, consistently look for process improvements, and practices high judgement, specifically related to problem solving
• Workload Management: Manage multiple tasks or projects in a timely manner by prioritizing the most critical needs of the business without sacrificing work quality
• Influencing: Has the ability to lead with influence, respectfully speaks up when sharing new ideas or concerns, can maneuver complex political situations, and encourages collaborative communication to drive compromise
• Evaluate & Measure Impact: Ability to use data to drive meaningful initiatives with global impact. Demonstrate high judgement with the capability to assess current state (environment, emotional, social, political, etc) and determine the right course of action

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.

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.

The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or related field and 3 years' experience in human resources, talent development, organizational development, or a related field OR 5 years' experience in human resources, talent development, organizational development, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Master's degree in organizational development, human resources, management or business administration

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th 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.