Store Management
Wal-Mart (Western/Springfield, Massachusetts)

 

A top-notch management team that ensures excellence in service for our customers and provides solid support, direction and development opportunities for our Associates is critical to a store’s success.  Managing a department or a store is demanding work, but the success you achieve – meeting sales targets, seeing your Associates thrive and exceeding your customers’ expectations – is a tremendous reward.  That’s why we need dependable, enthusiastic individuals like you to consider joining us.

 

ASSISTANT MANAGERS

As an Assistant Manager with Wal-Mart, you will be entrusted with making area-specific merchandising, operations and people development decisions, including budgeting/forecasting and assessing economic trends and demographic information. Your ideas and sales strategies will ensure the success of your department and create opportunities for new growth.  You also will contribute to Wal-Mart’s sustainability efforts, such as waste and energy reduction, that have a positive environmental, socioeconomic and business impact.

 

Your path begins as an Assistant Manager Trainee in our Leaders Out In Front program.  During 8 weeks of classroom and in-store training, you will become familiar with all aspects of running a multi-million dollar business, including Leadership, Merchandising, Customer Service, Inventory, Profit/Loss, and Civic Responsibility.  Upon graduation, you can be promoted to an Assistant Manager of a Wal-Mart Store, Super Center or Neighborhood Market, where you’ll gain the valuable hands-on management experience that will drive your future success.

 

Candidates must demonstrate the highest of ethical standards, a passion for excellent customer service, an appreciation for diversity (in culture, style, views), as well as the ability to foster a supportive, collaborative and productive environment.

 

To qualify for an Assistant Management role, you must have the following:

Exceptional communication, customer service and interpersonal skills, as well as prioritization, analytical and problem resolution capabilities Experience/Education as follows (must have one of the below combinations):One year of retail experience AND one of year supervisory experienceTwo years of general work experience AND one year of supervisory experienceAssociates Degree or Higher

CO-MANAGERS AND MANAGERS

As a Co-Manager at Wal-Mart, you will build upon your solid leadership abilities, expanding your experience throughout all areas of the store and taking on the new challenge of supervising Managers, all of which is vital to your success as you continue to advance your facility management career path. In this developmental role, you will drive sales, ensure legal/procedural compliance, as well as provide direction, supervision, guidance and training/development opportunities to Associates.  The next step in your career may then be a Store Manager, responsible for the performance of total store operations.  In addition to the characteristics listed above, a Store Manager must demonstrate delegation skills, raise diversity awareness, provide performance management and train/team-build.  Two years of retail management and two years of supervisory experience are essential.

 

APPLICATION PROCESS

The application for Management positions is extensive and can take an hour to complete; however, you can save your application and return to complete it at any time over the following 60 days. Because you want to be part of a high-performing team with the top retailer in the world, you will understand that we need to be sure every management Associate is able to contribute to our success.

 

STORE LOCATIONS

To find the Wal-Mart stores nearest you, please click on the Wal-Mart Store finder link on the right.