Director, Walmart O+O Acceleration

Title: Walmart Director, O+O Acceleration

Department: Business Accelerators (CDMO)

Location: New York, NY

Reports into: VP, O+O Business Accelerators (CDMO)

Who We Are

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

CDMO: The Corporate Digital and Marketing Office mission is to put the consumer at the heart of L’Oréal’s business and drive digital innovation. As a force for L’Oréal’s innovation, CDMO delivers the best consumer experiences, drives new marketing models, and spearheads new digital capabilities to futureproof the group’s business.

What You Will Do

The Walmart Director, O+O Acceleration will be responsible for developing and driving our Walmart omnichannel strategy across L’Oréal USA brands with an emphasis on data-driven insights, and digital/ecommerce activations. This role will provide leadership and direction to brands on all aspects of the business; effectively managing capabilities & vision, performance tools & dashboards, vendors and best-in- class strategies for L’Oréal USA (LUSA). The Walmart Director must be a self-starter who can work well across multiple teams and stakeholders. This role requires strong communication and presentation skills, comfort with analyzing data, and ability to manage competing priorities. The ideal candidate is a deep Walmart expert, working directly with Walmart and CPG/beauty brand.

• Provide strategic guidance, vision & and best practices to brands
• Understand competitive landscape and white space opportunities 
• Create and lead the Walmart Accelerator Steering Committee to identify top usecases and business questions to answer and ideate solutions.
• Liaise with Walmart directly on the access and ingestion of new reporting data.
• Lead solution-oriented feedback sessions with internal stakeholders to identify channel blockers and pain-points across O+O and supporting functions such as supply chain, technology, media, etc 
• On-board the LUSA organization to new Walmart data source (Luminate), leading the roll-out of the new UI, working with cross-functional partners to update existing reports to leverage one source of truth.
• Establish and maintain channel KPIs, centralized reporting and automation of data.   
• Partner with Divisional and Global counterparts on identifying pilot opportunities for business growth.  Manage execution of pilot programs.   
• Responsible for organization, socialization, and escalation of Walmart-issues.
• Drive innovation for unique LUSA point of view in eCommerce. O+O business and channel development.
• Provide point of view on key topics, facilitate thought leadership and sharing  
• Create high visibility presentations with industry insights and best practice frameworks 
• Train and educate over 100 key stakeholders on the new partnership with Walmart. Create a strategic on-boarding plan through stakeholder mapping.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong ability to problem solve using data
• Passion for making concrete business impacts
• Exceptional oral, written, and interpersonal communication/presentation skills; ability to influence senior levels
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a rigorous timeline.
• 8 to 10 years of progressive experience managing business-to-consumer eCommerce or Omni execution
• Bachelor’s degree
• Deep Experience working on the Walmart business
• Ability to function in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Budget management, project management, vendor management
• Demonstrated experience managing a customer P&L and successfully building promotional plans
• Strong bias for action and seeing things through to completion and business application.
• Strong eCommerce CPG/Retail background and thorough understanding of how to answer business questions/challenges through data with clear sense of the value added.
• Demonstrated experience with running complex projects across a matrixed organization

What’s In It For You

• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home) [*please keep only if applicable*]
• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Salary Range: $139,700 - $199,100
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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