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Manager, Process Improvement

Walmart · Bentonville, AR · 5 days ago
On-siteManagement$80k–$155k/yrFull-time

Position Summary

The Manager, Career Pathways is responsible for translating career pathway strategy into clear, practical, and field-ready tools that support career growth across Upstream Facility Services. This role ensures that career progression is clearly defined, consistently documented, aligned to learning programs, and easy to understand and apply.

What you'll do

  • Support the implementation and continuous improvement of career pathways across Upstream Facility Services, including internal, external, and role-level pathways.
  • Help define and document success at each career level, including skills, behaviors, experience, performance expectations, and readiness indicators.
  • Support role architecture and career movement design by helping clarify how roles connect and how associates can move vertically, laterally, diagonally, or across trades.
  • Aid in developing career pathway tools and resources, such as pathway maps, growth visuals, and progression guides for associates and leaders.
  • Support standardized program governance by helping document program purpose, learner audience, pathway alignment, learning outcomes, knowledge checks, and skill validation expectations.

About the team

The Teach team supports Career Pathways for Upstream Facility Services by enabling technicians to develop essential knowledge, skills, and confidence for career growth. The team designs clear learning paths, connects members to practical training, and ensures consistent standards across facilities. Through targeted training, resources, and hands-on development, the team enhances performance and operational readiness. This approach prepares technicians for future roles, fostering a capable and career-focused workforce that aligns with business goals and supports long-term success.

What you'll bring

  • Ability to organize workstreams, manage details, document standards, and move work forward across multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong partnership skills with the ability to work across cross-functional teams and key stakeholders.
  • Understanding of how skills, behaviors, performance standards, learning, and career progression connect.
  • Ability to create clear documentation, templates, presentations, leader resources, and field-facing communication materials.
  • Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to identify gaps, clarify requirements, and recommend practical improvements.
  • Comfort working in a developing or evolving space where processes, tools, and standards may need to be built from the ground up.
  • Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and ownership of execution.

Company Benefits

  • 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 annual salary range for this position is $80,000.00 - $155,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
  • Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : Stock

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Human Resources, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field and 2 years’ experience in consulting, project management, business strategy, or relevant area OR 4 years’ experience in consulting, project management, business strategy, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Leadership of cross-functional task forces or projects,
  • Project Management Masters,
  • Masters: Human Resources,
  • Masters: Supply Chain,
  • Leverage Lean Six Sigma Champion Certification - Certification

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