Senior Director, Business Strategy - Sam's Club Connect

• Lead the long-range strategic direction for Sam's Club Connect, including annual and multi-year planning processes that define the business’s priorities, growth vectors, and investment areas
• Bring an outside view of the retail media, commerce, and advertising landscape, helping Sam's Club Connectanticipateindustry shifts, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends
• Build and operationalize a competitive intelligence capability across retail media networks, ad tech platforms, commerce ecosystems, and emerging entrants
• Identifyadjacent opportunities, emerging business models, and whitespace areas that could shape Sam's Club Connect's next phase of growth and differentiation
• Translate ambiguity, market signals, and evolving industry dynamics into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership
• Partner closely with Product, Sales, Finance, Data Science, and Marketing leaders to align strategic priorities across the organization
• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with Walmart Connect U.S. and International Connect strategy leaders to accelerate learning, innovation, and shared capabilities across markets
• Lead high-priority strategic initiatives, including market assessments, growth opportunity evaluations, partnership strategies, and executive-level decision support
• Build and lead a high-performing strategy team andestablishthe operating rhythms that sustain long-term strategic planning and insight generation

• 10+ years of experience, includingsignificant timein advertising, media, commerce, or retail media strategy. This isrequired, not a nice-to-have.
• Experience in corporate strategy, business strategy, management consulting, or investment banking, ideally combined with operating exposure to retail media, digital advertising, e-commerce, or ad tech
• A track recordof owning long-range planning or enterprise strategy definition, not just contributing analysis, but shaping direction and influencing major business decisions
• Strong commercial and analytical instincts. You canbuild andpressure-testmodels, butalso know where qualitative judgment matters most.
• Deep understanding of the retail media and digital advertising ecosystem, including advertiser behavior, measurement, monetization models, and the evolving competitive landscape
• The ability to synthesize ambiguity into a clear point of view and communicate complex ideas simply to senior executives
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence skills. Much of this role depends on aligning teams and driving decisions without direct authority.
• Experience building, leading, and developing teams

Retail media is being defined in real time, and Sam’s Club isbuilding froma genuinely differentiated position: a membership model, high-frequency purchase behavior, and first-party data rooted in real member relationships.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future direction of one of the most strategically important growth businesses at Sam’s Club, helping define not just how Sam's Club Connect grows, but where the retail media industry goes next.

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

-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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location). At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!
-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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see.

• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 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. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.