Director, Supply Chain Management

Walmart Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmart Canada seeks a Director of Supply Chain Management to lead end-to-end planning, implement strategic initiatives, and optimize performance across all channels. You’ll manage large budgets, coordinate with 3PL partners and internal teams, and drive continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, data-driven decision making, and delivering exceptional customer experience through optimized supply chain operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations, Finance, Analytics, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated 10+ years in supply chain, retail operations, logistics, replenishment, or planning with leadership experience.
• Experience leading end-to-end supply chain planning and strategy across demand, inventory, transportation, and eCommerce.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement end-to-end supply chain strategies and major transformation initiatives.
• Oversee planning capabilities, infrastructure, and technology programs with budgets over $100M.
• Lead cross-functional teams including Merchandising, Replenishment, Supply Chain, Transportation and eCommerce.

Skills

Leadership

End-to-end planning

Analytics

Financial acumen

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in SCM/related

Tools

AI-enabled capabilities

Automation

Advanced analytics

Job description

Position Summary

The Director, Supply Chain Management is responsible for developing and implementing supply chain strategies, optimizing processes, and managing major projects to ensure efficient operations and superior customer experience across all channels.

What You'll Do

The Director, Supply Chain Management oversees the design and implementation of end-to-end supply chain planning capabilities, infrastructure, and technology programs, managing annual budgets exceeding $100M. This role develops new tools and processes to optimize flow, inventory, capacity, service, and cost across the supply chain, leveraging global relationships and best practices while using data, analytics, and scenario modelling to inform strategic decisions.

This position leads a team responsible for creating and validating integrated supply chain plans and forecasts, aligning logistics, replenishment, store operations, and eCommerce activities. The Director also manages strategic activities such as seasonal and promotional flow plans, collaborating with 3PL partners and internal teams to balance customer availability, operational capacity, inventory, speed, and cost-effectiveness.

The Director develops supply chain strategy and leads major transformation initiatives, ensuring strong execution, financial governance, and regulatory compliance. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, evaluates end-to-end business trade-offs, oversees progress against strategic objectives, and drives continuous improvement across the supply chain network.

Additionally, the Director develops and maintains critical external partnerships, improves the end-to-end customer experience, and integrates planning and operational processes across the broader supply chain to enhance speed, quality, availability, and cost. This position plays a vital role in the strategic alignment, transformation, and operational excellence of the end-to-end supply chain network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations, Finance, Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, retail operations, logistics, replenishment, or planning, including significant people leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end supply chain planning and strategy, connecting demand, inventory, transportation, distribution center capacity, store operations, and eCommerce to deliver business and customer objectives.
• Strong expertise in integrated planning, forecasting, inventory and flow management, capacity planning, and network optimization, with the ability to translate long-term growth into actionable supply chain plans.
• Proven experience leading large-scale transformation and technology initiatives, including planning platforms, automation, advanced analytics, and/or AI-enabled capabilities, while managing significant budgets and complex programs.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, with experience using scenario modelling, business cases, and financial analysis to optimize trade-offs across service, availability, inventory, capacity, productivity, cost, and ROI.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across complex, cross-functional organizations, including Merchandising, Replenishment, Supply Chain, Transportation, Store Operations, eCommerce, Finance, Technology, suppliers, and external partners.
• Strong people leadership and executive communication skills, with demonstrated success building high-performing teams, developing talent, leading through change, and influencing senior-level decisions.

Leadership Expectations

Respect the Individual

Builds high-performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Acts With Integrity

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts).

Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct and company policies; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, and models our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action, and enables others to do the same; holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware.

Serve Our Customers

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies.

Strive For Excellence

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Age – 16 or older

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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