The Role
Leads Walmart’s emerging-brand discovery and acquisition pipeline by identifying promising brands, evaluating growth and retail potential, connecting market signals, and delivering recommendations to merchants and leadership. Builds intelligence systems, evaluation frameworks, reporting, and automation while collaborating with merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and insights teams. Develops relationships with founders, investors, and accelerators and turns data into scalable business strategies.
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Position Summary...What you'll do...Role summary:
The Senior Manager of New Brand Discovery & Acquisition sits at the front edge of what’s next for Walmart, identifying the brands, founders, and ideas that could shape tomorrow’s basket. This role owns the new-to-Walmart pipeline, turning merchant priorities into a proactive hunt for high-potential brands across categories. They build relationships with founders, investors, and accelerators, scout the places where new brands are breaking, and turn early signals into sharp recommendations for merchants and leadership. Part strategist, part scout, part relationship-builder, this person helps Walmart find great brands earlier and gives them a clear path from discovery to scale.
About the team:
The Discovery & Emerging Brands team within Supplier Excellence identifies promising brands early to support Walmart’s growth. Collaborating with Merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and other teams, they transform market signals into actionable insights. The team focuses on data-driven analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic communication to enable faster, informed decisions. Their work strengthens Walmart’s assortment and supplier partnerships by delivering impactful business strategies. Committed to providing merchants with timely information, the team drives scalable business success through effective collaboration and insightful analysis.
What you'll do:
What you'll bring:
A commercial builder with strong instincts for brand, category, and customer potential. You know how to spot what is next, understand why it matters, and build the case for Walmart to move early. You are equally comfortable evaluating a founder’s pitch, working a trade show floor, digging into data, and turning messy signals into sharp recommendations. You balance instinct with evidence and understand customer demand, retail economics, and operational readiness. You build trust with founders, investors, merchants, and cross-functional partners while keeping a high-volume pipeline moving. Strong project management, storytelling, prioritization, and zero-to-one building skills are essential. 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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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 One.Walmart.
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 :
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The Senior Manager of New Brand Discovery & Acquisition sits at the front edge of what’s next for Walmart, identifying the brands, founders, and ideas that could shape tomorrow’s basket. This role owns the new-to-Walmart pipeline, turning merchant priorities into a proactive hunt for high-potential brands across categories. They build relationships with founders, investors, and accelerators, scout the places where new brands are breaking, and turn early signals into sharp recommendations for merchants and leadership. Part strategist, part scout, part relationship-builder, this person helps Walmart find great brands earlier and gives them a clear path from discovery to scale.
About the team:
The Discovery & Emerging Brands team within Supplier Excellence identifies promising brands early to support Walmart’s growth. Collaborating with Merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and other teams, they transform market signals into actionable insights. The team focuses on data-driven analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic communication to enable faster, informed decisions. Their work strengthens Walmart’s assortment and supplier partnerships by delivering impactful business strategies. Committed to providing merchants with timely information, the team drives scalable business success through effective collaboration and insightful analysis.
What you'll do:
- Build the Emerging Brands intelligence engine – Build the systems, tools, and signals that help Walmart spot the next breakout brands earlier and act faster.
- Build the brand evaluation system across growth, demand, differentiation, readiness, and Walmart opportunity.
- Connect the signals across sales, search, social, Marketplace, DTC, competitive retail, investors, and customer insights.
- Work cross-functionally with merchants, Supplier Excellence, Marketplace, WMC, data, and insights teams to identify whitespace and priority bets.
- Turn data into action with sharp business cases, recommendations, and leadership storytelling.
- Build for scale by improving the tools, reporting, and automation behind the work.
What you'll bring:
A commercial builder with strong instincts for brand, category, and customer potential. You know how to spot what is next, understand why it matters, and build the case for Walmart to move early. You are equally comfortable evaluating a founder’s pitch, working a trade show floor, digging into data, and turning messy signals into sharp recommendations. You balance instinct with evidence and understand customer demand, retail economics, and operational readiness. You build trust with founders, investors, merchants, and cross-functional partners while keeping a high-volume pipeline moving. Strong project management, storytelling, prioritization, and zero-to-one building skills are essential. 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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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 One.Walmart.
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
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or related field and 4 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area. 2 years’ experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Statistical Programming Language, Supervising Associates, Working on cross-functional teams or projectsMasters: Business AdministrationProject Management - Project Management Professional - Certification, Six Sigma Black Belt - Certification, Six Sigma Green Belt - CertificationPrimary Location...601 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart 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.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field and four years of experience in data analytics, project management, business, or a related area; alternatively, six years of relevant experience.
- Two years of experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.
- Experience with a statistical programming language.
- Experience supervising associates.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams or projects.
- Master of Business Administration degree.
- Project Management Professional certification.
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
Walmart Global Tech Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Walmart Global Tech and has not been reviewed or approved by Walmart Global Tech.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation packages typically include base pay, performance bonuses, and stock awards, with access to an employee stock purchase plan. Feedback suggests annual bonus structures and stock grants are a consistent part of total compensation in many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a company 401(k) match and stock purchase options that support long‑term savings. Feedback suggests these programs are a notable strength within the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family benefits feature paid parental leave and adoption assistance, alongside tax‑advantaged accounts for healthcare spending. Feedback suggests these supports contribute meaningfully to perceived total rewards value.
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What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
