(USA) Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management - Freight Forwarding Expansion

Posted: 2026-08-24

Location: BENTONVILLE, AR, United States

Salary: $90000 - $180000/year

Type: Full time / Regular/Permanent

Company: Walmart

Role summary: The Senior Manager, Freight Forwarding Expansion leads the strategy and launch of freight forwarding operations across Walmart's growing global network. In this role, you'll operationalize Walmart entities for freight forwarding services that we offer to marketplace sellers. You will influence organizational change, leverage your technical acumen, and work collaboratively with human resources, operations, product, legal, tax, and controllership teams. Your leadership will be pivotal in advancing Walmart's operational excellence and sustaining competitive advantage in a high growth environment. The role is based in Bentonville and reports to the Senior Director of Global Logistics, Commercial Development.

About the team: The team leads the development and growth of global logistics and international freight forwarding services, emphasizing convenience, reliability, and cost efficiency for marketplace sellers. It drives strategic initiatives in ocean and air freight consolidation while aligning commercial product roadmaps with Walmart's systems strategy. Collaborating across supply chain, marketplace, product, and engineering functions, the team delivers enterprise-wide programs, manages profit and loss, and achieves financial goals. Focused on accountability, integrity, and operational excellence, the team enhances Walmart's global logistics capabilities through innovative solutions and strong cross-functional partnerships.

What you'll do: Thinking Big - You will build the strategy for freight forwarding global expansion and design the roadmap to exceed customer expectations. Deliver for the Customer - You will deliver launch new market operations on-time, delighting new customers with freight forwarding services. Moving Fast - You will remove obstacles and prioritize critical operational capabilities that ensure compliant, safe, and successful services. Lead the Global Expansion Project - Lead the execution of plans to launch new markets that drive sales and assortment growth. Work Cross-Functionally - Communication and collaboration are key to your success. You will partner with multiple stakeholders to reach consensus with speed.

What you'll bring: You are a self-starter with a builder mindset, learning and iterating while managing complexity in large and multi-threaded programs. You thrive at bringing order to ambiguity. You possess superior communication skills, flexibility, and ability to juggle multiple tasks to meet aggressive deadlines. You're experienced with executing cross functional projects without direct authority over the teams involved. You have a background in ocean freight, freight forwarding, supply chain, and cross border logistics process design. You have managed freight forwarding agent networks or wholly owned branches to ensure tax, accounting, compliance, and legal requirements are successfully delivered. At Walmart, 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 (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. 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. Live Better U is a Walmart-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. The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock Minimum qualifications["

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or related field and 4 years' experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or relatedarea OR 6 years' experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area.2 years' experience with advanced functionality of Microsoft Office."]Preferred qualifications["Dispatch", "Retail Logistics Operations", "Network Analysis", "Fleet Management", "Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification", "Six Sigma - Certification"]