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.
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