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Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting

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Walmart

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting

Rogers, AR

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting

Location: Bentonville, Arkansas

About the Team

Our Global Talent Acquisition organization is transforming to meet the needs of the future of retail, ensuring that Walmart is that place in which people can grow their careers, and our organization ensures the best experience for the talent we manage and optimal service to the business. Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global Talent Acquisition teams to influence talent strategy, optimize the recruiting process, and enable the business to make the best hiring decisions. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and build a career you’re proud of!

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About the Role

As the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting you will have the unique opportunity to influence the future leadership landscape of Walmart. You will report directly to the Global Head of Executive Recruiting. Your key responsibilities will include understanding the needs of the business and leading your team to deliver a world class executive hiring process. This includes leveraging your deep market expertise, knowledge of the executive talent landscape, and deep experience attracting and hiring executive level talent. Furthermore, you will manage strategic partnerships with executive recruiting firms as needed, ensuring we have relationships with the best to secure exceptional leaders.

What you’ll do…

  • Build a leading executive recruiting internal capability focusing on quality, insight, delivery, speed, diversity, and advisory capabilities and reducing the dependency on external consulting partners
  • Interface with Senior Leadership and Executives across Walmart, Inc. to execute searches while maintaining high levels of confidentiality and understanding sensitivity of searches in a highly complex and sometimes ambiguous environment
  • Work with People Partners to drive effective executive hiring, inclusive of internal talent mapping opportunities
  • Provide expert advice and direction to senior leaders on how to attract market-leading talent
  • Live Walmart Values and serve as a brand ambassador when engaging with candidates
  • Support Walmart’s commitment to Belonging and building a place for everyone by ensuring we source from broad talent pools and ensure fair, consistent hiring practices.
  • Stay updated with market trends, compensation benchmarks, and talent movements within the industry & conduct regular market analysis to identify potential candidates. Leverage data and insights to influence successful searches.
  • Manage and evolve the processes for executive recruiting to ensure a world-class experience that delights the business and candidates.
  • Partner with succession planning team to support internal and external pipelining and advance our ability to prepare for and fill vacancies with exceptional talent
  • Network extensively (personally and in leading the team) in the market to represent the brand and know the top talent track market relevant talent movement
  • Lead the team hiring and developing top notch, sought after executive recruiters who are deeply knowledgeable about our business, our processes and the future of retail

What you’ll bring…

  • Extensive experience in Executive Recruitment, preferably a mix of in-house Corporate (Retail industry not required, but a plus) & external search experience
  • Experience working in and/or with tech-forward companies
  • Strong leadership qualities, particularly the ability to lead through change & ambiguity
  • Executive presence, gravitas, and capability to influence while partnering with executive leadership
  • An elevated level of business acumen and understanding of current executive talent market in Fortune 100 space
  • Talent attractor qualities, including proactively engaging with candidates, providing a hands-on, world class experience, and building Walmart’s brand

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Benefits & Perks

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

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.com/Health

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 $130,000.00-$260,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:



- Stock




Minimum Qualifications...

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

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or related area and 6 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition, or
related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition, or related area.
4 years’ supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Masters: Business, Masters: Human Resources

Human Resources - Professional HR (PHR) CERTIFICATION - Certification

Primary Location...

508 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America

Client-provided location(s): Bentonville, AR, USA
Job ID: Walmart-8261_R-2101817
Employment Type: Other