(USA) Senior Director, Merchandising- Home Décor and Strategic Initiatives

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:
As Senior Director, Merchandising for Home Décor and Strategic Initiatives, you will lead a critical growth portfolio within Walmart Home and help shape how the organization wins in the market. You will own the P&L for high growth Hard Décor categories, including decorative accessories, lighting, mirrors, and businesses. You will set commercial strategy, curate distinctive assortments, build supplier partnerships, and lead merchants to deliver customer growth, sales, profit, and market share. You will also advance style and brand priorities translating bold vision into actionable plans and aligning cross functional partners. Your work will elevate Walmart Home as a destination.
About the team:
The Home Décor team plays a vital role in advancing Walmart Home’s vision to lead in style. This team manages prominent categories such as décor, lighting, rugs, wall art, and seasonal Home Pad, shaping customer experiences. Operating in a dynamic trend environment with significant seasonal demand, the team acts swiftly to build category credibility and momentum. By integrating trend analysis, assortment planning, and cross-functional collaboration, the team delivers style and value that resonate with customers, supporting business objectives and driving sustained growth within the Home merchandising portfolio.
What you'll do:

• Lead Home Décor’s multi year growth strategy across decorative accessories, lighting, mirrors, and assigned categories.
• Own sales, profit, inventory, customer, and market share outcomes while anticipating risks and unlocking opportunities.
• Lead Home Pad strategy and execution, creating integrated seasonal assortments, presentations, and activations across channels.
• Build distinctive assortments and customer experiences that strengthen style sentiment, attract customers, and deepen engagement.
• Lead key Home style initiatives to elevate the assortment and strengthen customer consideration.
• Lead cross functional partnerships and supplier relationships to speed trend adoption, sharpen quality and value, and deliver differentiated solutions.

What you'll bring:

• Exceptional merchant with ability to identify customer opportunities, create differentiated assortments, and deliver sustainable P&L growth.
• Strategic thinker who connects customer insights, market dynamics, style trends, and financial performance into a growth agenda.
• Holistic leader who understands how assortment, brands, storytelling, marketing, digital, store execution, and seasonal activations shape perception.
• Visionary operator who balances bold ambition with disciplined execution, building capabilities and processes that remove obstacles.
• Enterprise leader who aligns senior executives, merchant teams, creative partners, operators, and cross functional stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• Talent developer who sets clear expectations, builds accountability, empowers ownership, and inspires teams to transform businesses.

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 $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 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.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field and 5 years’ experience in merchandising or related field OR 7 years’ experience in merchandising or related field. 4 years’ experience with direct responsibility for profit and loss (P&L) statements.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Merchandising or related field, Supervisory experience

Primary Location...

1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

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