Walmart Canada · 23 hours ago
Manager, Business Development- WFS Learning Strategy
Bentonville, AR
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
6+ years expWalmart Canada is seeking a Manager of Business Development in WFS Learning Strategy. The role involves leading strategic enablement initiatives, collaborating with product teams, and ensuring operational excellence in enablement processes to drive business performance and associate learning outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Partner with Product teams to identify upcoming initiatives and ensure enablement preparedness
Review business performance insights, leadership inputs, and field feedback to diagnose enablement needs
Translate business challenges into clear enablement problem statements and strategic recommendations
Define enablement initiatives, including goals, target audiences, timing, dependencies, and success metrics
Prioritize enablement work based on business impact, urgency, and organizational capacity
Challenge assumptions and legacy approaches constructively while maintaining stakeholder trust
Communicate enablement strategy, rationale, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders
Partner with Product and business teams to define success in terms of associate knowledge, skills, and behaviors
Ask critical discovery questions such as: 'When this is successful, what will associates know or do differently?'
Translate initiatives into measurable learning and performance outcomes
Apply adult learning principles to determine effective approaches for skill acquisition, retention, and application
Ideate on enablement strategies that move beyond information delivery to behavior change
Determine when knowledge transfer, practice, reinforcement, or performance support is required — and in what sequence
Define reinforcement and sustainment approaches to support long-term adoption
Own the enablement intake process, including request evaluation, scoping, and prioritization
Manage enablement project management tools and workflows to ensure visibility and accountability
Establish and maintain operational processes governing how enablement work is requested, approved, tracked, and delivered
Ensure consistent adherence to enablement processes across stakeholders and partners
Identify operational gaps or inefficiencies and lead process improvements
Define roles, handoffs, and decision points across Strategy, Design, and Execution
Maintain documentation for enablement processes, standards, and operating norms
Provide clear strategic direction and requirements to the Enablement Design Manager
Partner with Execution to ensure initiatives are sequenced, resourced, and feasible
Serve as the central point of coordination for enablement work across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Operations
Balance competing priorities and negotiate tradeoffs across teams
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in business strategy, sales enablement, product enablement, operations, or related roles
Strong understanding of adult learning principles and behavior change
Proven ability to translate business goals into learning and performance outcomes
Experience partnering with Product teams and business leaders on forward-looking initiatives
Demonstrated experience owning intake processes, operational workflows, or program management systems
High comfort level influencing without authority in complex, matrixed environments
Ability to challenge the status quo professionally and constructively, while showing initiative and innovative approaches
Strong organizational, documentation, and process design skills
Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills, including executive-facing contexts
Ability to bring structure, prioritization, and clarity to ambiguous environments
Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Communications, Education, or related field and 2 years' experience in strategy, enablement, operations, or related area
Preferred
Experience applying learning science concepts such as spaced learning, practice, reinforcement, or performance support
Background in enablement, L&D, or performance consulting
Experience managing cross-functional programs or portfolios of work
Familiarity with project management or intake tools (e.g., Asana, Jira, Smartsheet, Monday.com)
Experience defining and enforcing operating models or governance processes
Strong understanding of how enablement drives behavior change at scale
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.
Company
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada is a subsidiary of Walmart that operates a chain of more than 400 stores nationwide. It is a sub-organization of Walmart.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
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