Senior Director, Rewards

Overview

Walmart is seeking a highly innovative, strategic, and analytical Senior Director, Total Rewards to partner closely with the Chief People Officer and senior leaders across Technology and Product. You will serve as a trusted advisor and business partner to executive leadership, ensuring Total Rewards programs are competitive, data driven, and aligned with enterprise goals. Success in this role requires strong relationship building skills, exceptional executive presence, and the ability to influence key stakeholders across the organization.

• Oversees the development prioritization and review of key internal and external communications by collaborating with partners to develop messaging materials and timelines, setting the tone for internal communications to increase buy-in and support of key stakeholders, and partnering with Investor Relations, Community Relations, Recruiting, Legal, and executives to provide communication materials, reports, and presentations about company compensation programs and practices
• Brings new ideas and innovative approaches to the organization, provides leadership within and across business units by creating and nurturing an environment of innovation and collaboration, creating and setting a vision for the relevant business groups, motivating the team to promote new ideas, driving internal and external teams and partners to pioneer big innovative ideas, and contributing to and playing a lead role in developing business unit strategic plans
• Collaborates with senior leadership on the development of future opportunities by consulting with senior executives to identify and resolve short and long-term compensation and benefits opportunities, partnering with multiple senior executives and business functions (for example Finance, Legal, Information Systems, Division and operating divisions) to develop and implement programs ensuring market competitiveness and overall internal objectivity, overseeing the development of new and innovative total rewards processes, presenting recommendations to senior leadership to gain approval for proposed program changes, and evaluating the effectiveness of total rewards programs and processes and communicating changes impacting businesses and associates to leadership
• Develops and implements the Total Rewards and business partner strategy by collaborating with leadership and stakeholders to establish mission requirements and goals, providing guidance for development of communication materials and content for key meetings, evaluating operational processes by measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, ensuring alignment of Human Resources strategies across the CoE, leveraging data analysis and reporting, and identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities
• Leads the change and champions transformative initiatives for business partners and within the CoE by identifying and defining transformational change and processes, validating value and priority, creating a compelling vision that leverages leading practices and innovative processes and solutions, obtaining executive buy-in and sponsorship, aligning resources, managing expectations, helping business partners prioritize the work, and delivering upon their strategy by analyzing business priorities and data, forecasting future needs, identifying industry trends and market forces, and providing leadership and insights internally and externally
• Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing and implementing business strategies, plans and practices, analyzing costs and forecasts, and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment and demonstrating adaptability
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas

• Respect the individual:
  Builds high performing teams, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences, creates a…