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This leader shapes executive and organizational narratives, strengthens associate connection and engagement, and builds an ongoing listening strategy that translates feedback into measurable improvements.Serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the Senior Manager owns executive communications, organizational announcements, All-Hands, newsletters, recognition, and engagement programs while establishing new capabilities in associate listening, experience measurement, and continuous improvement.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role requiring exceptional writing, editorial judgment, strategic thinking, and execution. The Senior Manager will build a globally scalable, insight-driven associate experience function that helps associates stay informed, feel heard, adopt change, and perform at their best.\nWhat you'll do...\nExecutive & Organizational Communications\nLead executive and organizational communications across MSSPR, shaping clear, compelling narratives that connect business strategy, priorities, and performance to the associate experience.\nServe as a trusted communications advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic counsel, editorial direction, and thoughtful challenge on messaging, timing, and delivery.\nPersonally develop, write, edit, and deliver executive messages, organizational announcements, business updates, and other high-impact communications.\nEstablish editorial standards, approval protocols, and communications governance to ensure accuracy, consistency, appropriate executive alignment, and sound judgment.\nTranslate complex business, organizational, and operational changes into accessible, actionable communications for diverse audiences.\nAssociate Engagement & Connection\nOwn the strategy, planning, production, and execution of MSSPR All-Hands, newsletters, recognition programs, and associate engagement initiatives.\nBuild programs that strengthen connection, belonging, recognition, and understanding of organizational priorities.\nDevelop a coordinated editorial and engagement calendar that balances business communications, associate needs, and organizational priorities.\nEvaluate engagement effectiveness and continuously refine channels, formats, and programs to improve reach, participation, and impact.\nAssociate Listening & Insights\nDesign and lead an ongoing associate listening strategy, including recurring pulse surveys, always-on feedback channels, and targeted listening sessions.\nEstablish representative listening approaches across Seller Support, Risk Operations, countries, and BPO partners while minimizing survey fatigue.\nAnalyze associate feedback, sentiment, and experience data to identify trends, systemic challenges, and emerging opportunities.\nTranslate insights into actionable recommendations and partner with business leaders to prioritize and address experience gaps.\nEstablish closed-loop feedback practices that demonstrate how associate input informs decisions and improvements.\nAssociate Journey & Experience Improvement\nMap and assess the end-to-end associate journey, identifying critical moments across onboarding, training, production readiness, tooling, knowledge access, development, and organizational change.\nIdentify friction points and gaps that affect associate effectiveness, confidence, engagement, and day-to-day experience.\nPartner with Operations, Product, Technology, HR, and Capability leaders to establish improvement plans, clarify ownership, and track execution.\nDrive measurable improvements in targeted experience areas while maintaining clear accountability with the teams responsible for implementing solutions.\nChange Communications & Adoption\nDevelop and execute communications strategies that support organizational transformation, technology launches, process changes, and evolving ways of working.\nPartner with business and change leaders to assess audience impacts, anticipate resistance, and reinforce understanding and adoption.\nMeasure communication effectiveness and change adoption, using feedback and behavioral insights to refine messaging and support.\nEnsure associates receive timely, relevant information that helps them understand what is changing, why it matters, and what action is required.\nGlobal Associate Experience & Regionalization\nEstablish a Bentonville-led hub-and-spoke associate experience model with consistent strategy, standards, and governance across Marketplace operations.\nPartner with regional leaders to adapt communications, listening approaches, and engagement initiatives to local languages, cultures, and operational environments.\nEnsure internal associates and BPO partners receive relevant business and operational communications while tailoring engagement and recognition programs to appropriate audiences.\nEstablish consistent experience measures across regions while accounting for local needs and differences.\nMeasurement, Governance & Operational Excellence\nEstablish KPIs for associate engagement, communication effectiveness, change adoption, and experience improvement.\nUse quantitative and qualitative insights to measure sentiment, comprehension, adoption, and reduction in associate friction.\nDevelop dashboards and executive reporting that connect associate experience trends to business priorities and improvement actions.\nOwn end-to-end execution of the function, including planning, content development, production, stakeholder coordination, approvals, and delivery.\nEstablish scalable workflows, prioritization, and operating practices that improve speed, quality, consistency, and productivity.\nLeverage technology, AI, and automation to streamline communications production, listening analysis, and reporting without compromising accuracy or human judgment.\nWhat You'll Bring\nDemonstrated experience leading internal or executive communications, associate engagement, employee experience, or related functions in a complex organization.\nExceptional writing, editing, storytelling, and executive communications skills, with the ability to translate complex information into concise, compelling, human-centered messages.\nProven ability to advise senior executives, shape organizational narratives, challenge assumptions, and exercise sound judgment in sensitive communications.\nExperience personally managing communications programs and channels, including executive messaging, newsletters, town halls, organizational announcements, and engagement initiatives.\nExperience designing or managing associate listening programs, pulse surveys, feedback mechanisms, and engagement measurement.\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable recommendations and measurable improvements.\nExperience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing outcomes without direct authority.\nStrong understanding of change communications, organizational adoption, and employee experience improvement.\nAbility to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.\nExperience supporting global, distributed, frontline, or BPO populations preferred.\nFluency with modern communications platforms, survey tools, analytics, AI, and automation.\nStrong business acumen, relationship-building skills, discretion, and executive presence.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nA globally connected MSSPR organization where associates are informed, engaged, heard, and supported in doing their best work.\nExecutive communications are clear, credible, and aligned with 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Associates understand and adopt change. Listening programs surface meaningful insights, and cross-functional partners act on them. Engagement improves, day-to-day friction decreases, and leadership has measurable visibility into the associate experience.\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\n\nMinimum Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.\nMinimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Operations , or related field and 3 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area. 1 year’s supervisory experience.Preferred Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.\nLeadership of cross-functional task forces or projectsMasters, Masters: Operations ManagementProject Management - Project Management Professional - CertificationPrimary Location...\n1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. 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