(USA) Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics

About the role

The Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, leads the development and execution of compliance strategies within their area of responsibility. This role involves monitoring regulatory changes, conducting impact assessments, and advising leadership on compliance risks and opportunities. The position directs policy updates, manages data-driven analyses, and fosters a culture of integrity and accountability. By collaborating across functions, the manager ensures adherence to laws and company standards while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

The Regulatory Impact and Response team oversees earnings-related regulatory impacts within the Spark business. They lead compliance risk management by monitoring laws, conducting gap analyses, and developing policies to ensure adherence. The team provides strategic recommendations to leadership, manages regulatory forecasts, and supports continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborating across business units, they address compliance challenges while upholding governance and ethical standards. Their efforts ensure alignment with evolving regulatory requirements and business objectives, fostering a proactive and well-governed environment that supports the organization’s long-term success.

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance and ethics initiatives by monitoring regulations, addressing inquiries, and updating policies with leadership input.
• Analyze data, prepare reports, and communicate findings to senior leadership, ensuring follow-up actions are completed.
• Develop and manage legislative assessment strategies, forecasting regulatory trends and conducting gap analyses.
• Serve as subject matter expert on regulatory issues, coordinating research and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive execution of business plans by identifying needs, removing obstacles, and measuring performance.
• Promote adherence to company policies, ethics, and integrity standards across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and 4 years’ experience in compliance, ethics, legal, project management, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in compliance, ethics, legal, project management, or related area.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.
• 3 years’ experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree in Business Administration and Project Management Professional certification.

Skills

• Extensive experience in governance, regulatory compliance, and compliance risk management within complex organizational environments.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey compliance strategies and findings to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Expertise in contingency planning, process improvement, and forecasting to support compliance and ethics initiatives.
• Proficiency in data management and analysis to identify trends, assess risks, and develop actionable compliance recommendations.
• Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and drive execution of compliance programs aligned with business objectives.

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.

We also offer Live Better U, 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.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.