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**Position Summary...** **What you'll do...** At Walmart and Sams Club, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make to create the future of retail, from responsible sourcing to sustainability and everything in between. As a Sams ClubMerchant, youll serve as an advocate for our members and see the products you buy come to life in clubs and online. Part visionary and part strategist, youll be the expert for the **apparel category** and leverage the scale and access of the Sams Club system to truly impact the business and the lives of millions of members. **Responsibilities** As aMerchant, youll be responsible for developing and fostering productive relationships with our suppliers. Imparting the Sams Club way of working, driving efficiencies, and ensuring accountability within our supplier community is essential.Merchants act as the driving force behind this effort. **What youll do** **:** + **Setting the Category Strategy:** Youll help to establish the strategy, manage budgets to drive profitable growth, and use vision and creativity to impact the member experience. + **Building Relationships:** Youll use your influencing and leadership skills to build partnerships with suppliers, vendors, business partners, and otherMerchants. + **Making Decisions:** Youll make decisions about nearly every aspect of your products including replenishment, supply chain, manufacturers, club operations, planning, assortment, layouts, budgets, modular, and pricing. + **Knowing Your Category:** Youll know your members and supplier base better than anyone and are always thinking about what is next for your business. + **Becoming a Product Expert:** Youll have hands-on experience in product creation, reviewing market trends, product quality, and packaging design. + **Having an Omni Approach:** Youll not only buy product for clubs but for online as well, building an omni-level strategy based on how our members shop. **What youll bring** **:** + Youre member-centric in spirit and in execution. + You have experience in the **apparel industry.** + You are omni-channel customer focused: You make customer-centric recommendations and decisions across all customer touch points. Constantly incorporate applicable and actionable customer feedback. Understand customer behavior across channels, or within relevant channels. Guide suppliers and vendors in the development of customer-focused processes and products. + You enjoy owning and developing plans for highly complex category strategy, supporting long-term business plans, and executing prioritized strategic initiatives. + You are data savvy: You can analyze performance, understand trends, and translate results into strategies. + You are tenacious, dedicated, and thrive working with ownership, autonomy, and a healthy dose of competition. + You have a **passion for apparel** and want to be involved in the full product lifecycle, from product creation to execution. **Benefits ; Perks:** Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. **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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions while being inclusive of all people. **Who We Are** Sam Walton opened the first Sams Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sams Club has grown rapidly, operating almost 600 clubs in the US. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sams Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners. At Sam's Club, 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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. 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 . ‎ - Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. ‎ Live Better U is a company 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. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ **Minimum Qualifications...** _Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications._ Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising , or related field and 3 years' experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area OR 5 years' experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or related area. **Preferred Qualifications...** _Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications._ Microsoft Office, Negotiating with third-party suppliers, Supervisory experience Masters: Business, Masters: Merchandising **Primary Location...** 2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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