Hybrid Senior Manager, Learning and Development

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About the role

  • Senior Manager responsible for associate learning and development at Walmart Connect. Leading strategic initiatives to enhance capability, career growth, and performance readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a comprehensive associate learning strategy that aligns with Walmart Connect’s business priorities, talent goals, and performance metrics.
  • Act as a player/coach, managing a small team of instructional designers and facilitators while personally leading design, development, and delivery of key learning initiatives.
  • Conduct ongoing analysis of associate performance and skill gaps to identify opportunities for career development, leadership growth, and operational improvement.
  • Serve as a trusted learning advisor to People and Business leaders, ensuring programs directly support talent strategy and business impact.
  • Lead strategic needs analysis sessions with business stakeholders, HR, and functional leaders to identify capability requirements and learning priorities.
  • Facilitate discussions with subject matter experts (SMEs) to extract knowledge and translate insights into structured learning objectives and deliverables.
  • Design end-to-end learning paths (onboarding through leadership readiness) that are modular, measurable, and aligned to career progression.
  • Build tiered curricula (101/201/301) that develop foundational, intermediate, and advanced skills aligned with competency models.
  • Create and deliver learning programs across multiple modalities, Instructor-Led Training (ILT), Virtual ILT (vILT), e-learning, microlearning, and blended experiences.
  • Apply adult learning, cognitive science, and UX principles to design high-impact, learner-centered content that fosters skill adoption and behavior change.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Communications, Education, or related field and 4 years’ experience in adult learning, training content development, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in adult learning, training content development, or related area.
  • 7+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or Talent Management, with proven success in enterprise-level program design and delivery.
  • Demonstrated expertise in training needs analysis, curriculum design, facilitation, and leadership development.
  • Hands-on proficiency with instructional design tools and learning technologies (Articulate Storyline/Rise, Adobe Captivate, Vyond, Camtasia, PowerPoint, LMS platforms).
  • Strong ability to extract information from SMEs and translate complex knowledge into accessible, impactful learning.
  • Experience creating structured, modular learning frameworks (101/201/301) aligned to competencies and business outcomes.
  • Proven record of linking learning to business results, such as improved retention, productivity, and internal mobility.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Job title

Senior Manager, Learning and Development

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$90,000 - $180,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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