Manager, Creative - Business Strategy

What you'll do at

Position Summary...

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented business strategist to join our creative team at Walmart. This role is ideal for someone passionate about bridging business strategy and creative operations — evaluating new opportunities, optimizing resources and workforce strategies, and leading the adoption of technologies and processes that enable our creative function to scale and innovate. This dynamic position offers a diverse range of challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

What you'll do...

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering with creative, marketing, operations, and other stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business requirement s and use cases.

• Conduct business and strategic analyses to evaluate new opportunities, market trends, competitive positioning, and business cases.

• Assess tools, technologies, systems, and processes; provide recommendations on value, fit, cost–benefit, risk, and alignment with business goals.

• Analyze and enhance resourcing, staffing, and workforce strategies to improve efficiency, utilization , and cost-effectiveness.

• Conduct competitive research and benchmarking; monitor industry, technology, and creative trends to identify best practices and emerging capabilities.

• Support project delivery by ensuring initiatives meet agreed-upon deliverables and timelines through effective follow-up and communication.

• Develop and deliver presentations for leadership and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Business , Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems or related field (Master’s or MBA preferred).

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, business strategy, or related role (ideally within a creative/media environment or large matrix organization ).

• Experience in large corporate, matrixed environments, and managing third-party business relationships is a plus.

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; proficiency in quantitative analysis, cost-benefit modelling , and business case development.

• Hands-on experience with data analysis and visualization tools : Excel, Power BI/Tableau, or similar .

• Consultative mindset, comfortable in a dynamic creative environment, able to adapt to changing priorities and ambiguity.

• Strong business acumen, ability to translate analytics into actionable insights and operational change.

• Preferred: Familiarity with creative processes, digital tools, marketing operations, and content production workflows.

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 . 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 .
San Bruno, California US-08848: The annual salary range for this position is $104,000.00 - $202,000.00
Los Angeles, California US-10988: The annual salary range for this position is $96,000.00 - $186,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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.

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 1 year's experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field OR 3 years' experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Content Management Systems, Managing interactive projects in an online creative or related digital field, Working for or with creative agencies, Working with Design Software (For example, Adobe Creative Suite), including proficiency in advanced functions (For example, multi-layer masking and compositing)

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, 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.