(USA) Senior Manager, Private Brand Management- Calendar & Planning

Position Summary

The Fashion Private Brands Calendar and Planning Senior Manager is responsible for building, managing, and reporting on the total Fashion Private Brands calendar and SOPs. This role ensures alignment across design, product development, sourcing, marketing, and merchandising teams to deliver seasonal milestones on time and with precision.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain the master Fashion Private Brands calendar, integrating key milestones across product design, development, sourcing, production, and marketing.
• Build and maintain the master Fashion Private Brands Process SOPs that ensure consistent ways of working.
• Manage and coordinate updates across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment on key deliverables and deadlines.
• Report on calendar performance, tracking progress, identifying risks or bottlenecks, and recommending adjustments to maintain critical timelines.
• Partner with brand, merchandising, and operations teams to ensure calendar accuracy and visibility across all fashion categories.
• Create and distribute regular status reports and dashboards to leadership, highlighting milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Serve as the central point of contact for all calendar-related inquiries and updates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to support seasonal planning, line reviews, and Go-to-Market readiness.
• Continuously refine processes to improve efficiency and transparency in calendar management.
• Ensure that the Fashion Private Brands calendar reflects all business-critical activities, including design deadlines, sample reviews, and launch timelines.

What you'll bring

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities across cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to manage complex timelines with competing priorities.
• High attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Experience working with private brand or owned label programs preferred.
• Knowledge of fashion development cycles and critical path management preferred.
• Experience reporting and presenting to executive-level stakeholders preferred.

Benefits

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. For information about PTO, see here.

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. For information about benefits and eligibility, see here.

Minimum Qualifications

• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Design, or related field and 4 years’ experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
• Masters: Business Administration
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
• Six Sigma - Certification