(Usa) Manager, Digital Media: Social Commerce

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Walmart Marketing

Named Ad Age's Marketer of the Year in 2022, you'll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation - all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company.

We orchestrate marketing campaigns and experiences that reach millions of daily shoppers. Our work spans the digital and physical spaces and combines the work of numerous internal teams and external advertising and media agencies. Our teams work together to show our customers how they can save money and live better. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Marketing role at Walmart could be what you've been looking for.

This role will require that you live within driving distance to one of our hubs: Bentonville, AR, Hoboken, NJ, San Bruno, CA, Sunnyvale, CA or Los Angeles, CA. Hoboken, NJ is the preferred location. We're moving toward 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility.

About The Social Commerce Team

We are focused on creating innovative customer experiences that shape the future of retail and commerce. Walmart is an early pioneer in social commercean area that is fundamentally transforming the way people discover and shopthrough efforts in livestreaming, shoppable tools and partnerships, and social platforms like Walmart Creator. Our ultimate goal is to create cutting-edge experiences that shorten the distance between product inspiration and purchase, and that make it easy for customers to shop.

About The Role

As a Manager of Social Commerce, your focus will be to develop and activate business strategies, partnerships, and social experiences that inspire customers to shop. You will partner with engineering, product, business, design, ecommerce and cross-functional teams. You will need to be a savvy self-starter who loves building from the ground up, leverages data to inform scale, and has excellent communication skills.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the trajectory of emerging customer behavior. You will bridge the art of what's possible across today's rapidly evolving social commerce landscape.

Challenges You'll Tackle

• Launch social experiences tied to categories including Lifestyle (Fashion, Home, Beauty), Food, Seasonal, and more
• Advocate efforts internally and externally with executive partners and leadership
• As part of a growing team, you will lead and activate business strategy for social discovery & commerce experiences, inclusive of vision, iterative roadmaps, & activation
• Evolve and scale our social platform & creator offerings broadly for Walmart, using data-backed analysis to inform future direction
• Build and cultivate relationships with brands, organizations, and social platform partners to develop product discovery and shopping experiences

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and activate content & social commerce experiences that drive brand equity, engagement, customer growth, and sales. Inclusive of business development, planning, partnerships, activation, optimization & growth.
• Leverage data, insights and measurement to constantly optimize, as well as socialize and advocate insights and broader strategy internally to stakeholders and leadership.
• Create clear cross-functional deliverables and coordinate with key stakeholders across external and internal teams.
• Accurately quantity and forecast social commerce performance to maximizing chance of success and minimize risk to the business.
• Forge bespoke strategic partnerships with endemic partners to codevelop shoppable experiences that solution and innovate for customers' daily lives
• Evaluate, test, and scale new social shopping features as partner offerings evolve

Qualifications

• Effective communication skills - you're equally comfortable hopping on the phone with a new potential partner, meeting them in person, or following up (with a "make things happen" attitude)
• Deep expertise in social commerce, inclusive of media partners, social players/networks, and how consumers are using them in the US and internationally
• Someone who can be both a visionary and big picture conceptual thinker as well as a doer.
• Experience with social commerce platforms and/or activations (e.g. shoppable livestreaming, video commerce, in platform checkout, creator economy)
• Established industry relationships and experience working with executive level business and marketing leaders within client organizations, particularly across media, retail, and/or ecommerce.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills, and ability to balance storytelling with data-backed insights
• Minimum 5+ years of work experience in a related area (e.g. Strategic Partnerships, Commerce, Social Platforms, Digital Marketing)
• Gravitas to advocate, influence, and gain buy in both internally and externally
• Builder mentality, ability to build programs from the ground up and self-start with little direction
• Highly organized and detail-oriented

How You'll Thrive At Walmart

• Opportunity for growth and development across several areas of the Fortune 1 organization
• 401k with company match
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan
• And much more
• Working alongside a diverse group of collaborative and innovative team members
• Performance-based incentive awards
• New surrogacy & adoption benefits
• Paid parental leave,
• Unlimited Flex Time Off

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

Who We Are

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

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 Marketing, Business, or related field and 2 years' experience in marketing or related field OR 4 years' experience in marketing or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Primary Location...

221 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030, United States of America