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Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.What you'll do...\nPosition Summary\nWalmart International is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the International Catalog Platform organization within Walmart Global Tech. The International Catalog team builds and scales the foundational platforms that power item onboarding, supplier enablement, catalog governance, content quality, assortment expansion, marketplace growth, and product discoverability across Walmart’s international markets including Canada, Mexico, Chile, and future growth markets.\nAs a Principal TPM, you will lead some of the largest and most strategically important platform transformation initiatives within the international business. You will be responsible for defining and driving multi-year technology programs that span multiple product and engineering organizations, influence platform strategy, and deliver measurable business outcomes across markets.\nThis role requires exceptional program leadership, technical depth, business acumen, stakeholder management, and organizational influence. You will work across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Marketplace, Merchandising, Data Science, and Business leadership teams to drive large-scale catalog modernization and platform investment initiatives. The successful candidate will have a strong record of delivering complex, enterprise-scale programs while shaping strategy, optimizing execution models, and influencing senior leadership.\nAbout the Team\nThe International Catalog Platform team is responsible for building and operating the systems that enable suppliers and merchants to create, manage, enrich, govern, and scale product catalogs across Walmart International. These platforms support item lifecycle management, content management, taxonomy, assortment expansion, compliance validation, supplier onboarding, search readiness, product discoverability, and catalog operational excellence.\nThe team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Marketplace, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Data Science, Operations, and Market leadership teams to enable accelerated assortment growth while maintaining quality, governance, compliance, and operational efficiency at scale.\nAs a Principal TPM, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping the future of Walmart International's Catalog ecosystem and driving technology investments that unlock growth across global markets.\nWhat You'll Do\nStrategic Program Leadership\nDefine goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and success criteria for large-scale catalog initiatives spanning multiple organizations, platforms, and markets.\nLead strategic programs involving catalog modernization, supplier enablement, item management transformation, marketplace expansion, content governance, and platform consolidation.\nEstablish long-term multi-quarter roadmaps while balancing business priorities, technical constraints, resource availability, and market-specific requirements.\nDrive clarity in highly ambiguous situations involving competing business strategies, product priorities, and technology investments.\nSecure executive alignment, resource commitments, and delivery ownership across multiple functions.\nIdentify synergies, capability overlaps, process inefficiencies, and technology duplication opportunities across catalog platforms and products.\nMentor TPMs and drive continuous improvements in program execution methodologies, governance frameworks, and ways of working.\nTechnical Leadership\nPartner with engineering and architecture leaders to define technology strategies and end-to-end execution plans for highly complex distributed systems.\nParticipate in architecture reviews and influence design decisions that impact scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and operational excellence.\nDrive dependency management across multiple platforms, APIs, services, data systems, supplier-facing applications, and downstream consumer experiences.\nEvaluate trade-offs across engineering investments, architectural approaches, build-versus-buy decisions, and modernization opportunities.\nEnsure engineering teams establish robust release management, rollback strategies, monitoring frameworks, observability capabilities, and operational readiness plans.\nGuide platform simplification and standardization efforts through reuse of shared capabilities and elimination of redundant solutions.\nPromote automation, engineering productivity improvements, and scalable delivery frameworks across programs.\nInternational Catalog Domain Leadership\nServe as a strategic leader for catalog-related business and technology initiatives across international markets.\nDevelop deep expertise in catalog management, item lifecycle management, supplier onboarding, assortment expansion, content quality, compliance management, marketplace enablement, product discovery, and catalog governance.\nPartner with market, product, and business leaders to identify growth opportunities and technology investments that accelerate business outcomes.\nInfluence roadmap priorities based on industry trends, competitive analysis, operational needs, and emerging technologies.\nLead impact assessments and due diligence activities to support strategic platform and product decisions.\nDrive transformation initiatives that improve supplier experience, item setup speed, catalog accuracy, content completeness, assortment growth, operational efficiency, and customer experience.\nProgram Delivery Excellence\nOwn and drive large, cross-functional programs that span multiple engineering organizations and strategic business initiatives.\nDefine execution frameworks for complex initiatives and decompose vague business problems into actionable workstreams.\nEstablish scalable governance mechanisms, operating models, reporting cadences, executive reviews, and portfolio management processes.\nContinuously reassess program roadmaps and execution plans to identify paths to green for at-risk initiatives.\nBuild risk management frameworks and proactively remove obstacles impacting delivery.\nDrive prioritisation decisions across competing programs, resource constraints, technical dependencies, and market demands.\nImplement repeatable, measurable, and scalable processes that accelerate execution while improving quality and predictability.\nOptimise utilisation of engineering capacity and technology investments by ensuring effort is focused on the highest-value outcomes.\nExecutive Stakeholder Management & Communication\nBuild trusted relationships with senior executives, engineering leaders, product leaders, architects, business stakeholders, operational teams, and market leadership.\nInfluence strategic decisions through data-driven insights, structured communication, and executive-level storytelling.\nLead discussions involving multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and drive consensus across organizations.\nCreate executive-ready business reviews, investment proposals, portfolio assessments, risk reports, roadmap presentations, and operational updates.\nDrive alignment across cross-functional teams while establishing clear accountability, ownership, governance, and execution frameworks.\nCommunicate complex technical and business concepts effectively to audiences ranging from engineering teams to executive leadership.\nAnalytical Problem Solving & Decision Making\nDefine business and program success metrics aligned to strategic organizational objectives.\nExtract insights from engineering, operational, business, customer, and program data to drive decision making.\nIdentify systemic issues, organizational bottlenecks, and hidden dependencies that impact program outcomes.\nLead resolution of complex business and technology challenges through structured problem-solving methodologies.\nBuild data-driven prioritisation frameworks to support portfolio planning and investment decisions.\nMentor TPMs and leaders on analytical thinking, problem decomposition, and fact-based decision-making approaches.\nOrganisation & TPM Leadership\nProvide mentorship and guidance to TPMs across the organisation.\nEstablish best practices for program management, delivery governance, executive communication, portfolio planning, and stakeholder management.\nDrive adoption of standardised program management frameworks, tooling, metrics, and reporting models.\nContribute to the growth of the TPM organisation through coaching, capability development, process improvements, and leadership initiatives.\nAct as a role model for technical leadership, execution excellence, strategic thinking, and organizational influence.\nWhat You'll 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