Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics - Connect; Risk Management

Position Summary

Walmart Connect is key to Walmart’s growth strategy. Walmart has built a closed-loop media business division of America’s largest omnichannel retailer. Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers, no matter where, how and when they shop. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-visibility team within the largest company in the world.

Walmart Connect is a leading ad tech platform, committed to delivering innovative solutions and ensuring the highest standards of compliance and integrity. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Manager to lead risk management for our U.S. retail media network with a primary focus on advertising risk and third‑party risk management (TPRM). This role implements and executes a risk assessment framework, manages the advertising risk register, and enforces a scalable TPRM program covering due diligence, contracting, onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and issue remediation for critical partners (e.g., data providers, measurement vendors, publishers, platforms, and service providers).

The highly qualified candidate brings deep experience in risk identification, assessment, and mitigation across ad tech workflows and third‑party ecosystems, with the judgment to calibrate controls to business realities. You will partner cross‑functionally with teams like Legal, Privacy, Security, Ad Operations, Sales, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Procurement/Vendor Management, and Global Internal Audit to quantify risks, recommend controls, and drive timely remediation that protects our customers, brands, and business.

Reporting into the Walmart Connect Director of Compliance and Ethics (US), the Senior Manager, Compliance will play a pivotal role in advertising risks management, ensuring we meet regulatory requirements and maintain the trust of our partners and clients.

• Manage and maintain a risk management framework for the advertising business, including risk taxonomy, risk appetite alignment, and key risk indicators (KRIs) for priority domains (e.g., advertising practices, data governance/privacy, measurement integrity, brand safety/fraud, financial/operational, regulatory/compliance, and reputational risk).
• Lead the compliance risk assessment process for advertising workflows and platforms; facilitate risk workshops, document inherent and residual risk ratings, perform control gap analyses, and maintain an up‑to‑date advertising risk register with clear owners and mitigation plans.
• Operate a scalable third‑party risk management (TPRM) program covering intake, inherent risk tiering, due diligence, contracting, onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and exit/offboarding for partners such as data providers, clean room and identity vendors, measurement/attribution vendors, publishers, SSPs/DSPs, ad servers, and managed service providers.
• Establish continuous monitoring for third parties, including control attestations, vendor performance and SLA reviews, security rating feeds, issue and incident tracking, and periodic reassessments based on risk tier or material changes.
• Define and track KRIs/KPIs and develop risk dashboards for senior leadership; prepare concise reports that quantify exposure, trends, concentration risk, and remediation status.
• Coordinate with Security, Privacy, and Product to evaluate risks arising from new technologies and use cases and recommend risk‑based controls.
• Align the risk and TPRM programs with applicable regulatory and self‑regulatory requirements and platform policies relevant to U.S. advertising (e.g., FTC advertising standards and Endorsement Guides, state UDAP, COPPA, CAN‑SPAM/TCPA as applicable, CCPA/CPRA, IAB standards, brand safety/IVT frameworks, and platform ad policies).
• Oversee issue management: open and track corrective action plans, validate remediation and control design changes, and ensure timely escalation of material risks to management and relevant committees.
• Develop and deliver targeted training and guidance for business teams and vendor partners on risk requirements, third‑party expectations, and control obligations.
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