Senior Manager, Security - Risk Intelligence

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase

Paid time off

Education benefits

Job summary

Walmart seeks a Senior Manager of Risk Intelligence to support our Global Security Operations Center. This role delivers actionable intelligence that helps safeguard customers and associates, protect critical operations, and support decision-making across Walmart’s U.S. and international businesses.

The successful candidate brings 10+ years of intelligence experience with geopolitics and analytic tradecraft, translating complex information into clear, defensible assessments for senior leaders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of intelligence experience in public or private sector roles.
• Strong geopolitical expertise with insight into global events.
• Advanced analytical skills producing defensible judgments.
• Exceptional writing with experience for senior leaders.
• Ability to distill complex issues into concise assessments.
• Comfort with AI-enabled tools in analytic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Produce timely, concise intelligence assessments, briefings, and reports.
• Contextualize assessments with regional and global dynamics.
• Apply structured analytic tradecraft to judgments.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance analytic workflows with rigor.
• Build trusted partnerships to strengthen Walmart’s resilience.
• Improve intelligence methodologies and processes.

Skills

Produce Intelligence Assessments

Geopolitical Expertise

Analytical Rigor

Executive Writing

Communicate to Senior Leaders

AI-Enabled Tradecraft

High-Pressure Judgment

Public/Private Sector Experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Position Summary...

Walmart is seeking a Senior Manager of Risk Intelligence to support our Global Security Operations Center. This role delivers actionable intelligence that helps safeguard customers and associates, protect critical operations, and support decision-making across Walmart’s U.S. and international businesses.

We are looking for a seasoned intelligence professional with 10+ years of experience in public and/or private sector roles. The successful candidate will bring expertise in geopolitics, global risk dynamics, and intelligence tradecraft, along with the analytic rigor, intellectual curiosity, and judgment required to transform complex information into clear, defensible assessments for senior leaders.

About the team

Risk Intelligence delivers actionable intelligence that helps Walmart anticipate, understand, and respond to geopolitical, operational, and security risks. The team monitors global developments, assesses emerging threats and opportunities, and produces decision-ready intelligence that supports the safety of customers and associates, protects business operations, and strengthens organizational resilience across Walmart's global footprint.

What you'll do...

• Produce Intelligence Assessments: Deliver timely, concise, and actionable assessments, briefings, and strategic reports that articulate key judgments, business impacts, and implications related to political instability, civil unrest, supply chain risk, and other emerging threats.
• Apply Geopolitical Expertise: Contextualize intelligence assessments with a nuanced understanding of regional and global dynamics.
• Showcase Intelligence Tradecraft: Employ structured analytic techniques and sound analytic methodology to produce defensible intelligence judgments.
• Integrate AI into Tradecraft: Leverage emerging AI tools to enhance analytic workflows while maintaining rigor and objectivity.
• Build Trusted Partnerships: Collaborate with internal and external partners to strengthen Walmart’s resilience.
• Operate with Excellence: Continuously improve intelligence methodologies, frameworks, and processes.

What you'll bring...

• 10+ years of intelligence experience in public or private sector roles, as well as formal intelligence analysis training.
• Strong geopolitical expertise and ability to assess the second- and third-order impacts of global events.
• Advanced analytical skills that move beyond summarizing sources to providing unique insight and defensible judgments.
• Exceptional writing with extensive experience producing finished intelligence for senior leaders.
• Ability to distill complex, ambiguous issues into concise, decision-relevant assessments.
• Compelling communication and ability to brief senior leaders with clarity.
• Comfort adopting AI-enabled tools as part of modern tradecraft, while maintaining analytic rigor.
• Aptitude to operate in high-pressure, ambiguous environments, exercising sound judgment under uncertainty.

Benefits

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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Risk Management, or related field and 4 years’ experience in security, emergency management, risk management, law enforcement, fire service, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in security, emergency management, risk management, law enforcement, fire service, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Emergency Management, Project Management, Supervising Associates Masters: Business Administration

Primary Location

702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart 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.