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INTRODUCTION

The Manager, Modular Process & Automation leads the improvement of end-to-end modular planning across Walmart Beverage categories. This role identifies process gaps, standardizes ways of working, and develops scalable tools, automation, governance, and capabilities that improve the speed, consistency, accuracy, and quality of modular execution.

Serving as the connector between business needs and process solutions, this manager partners across Category Advisors, Advanced Analytics, Modular Planning, Walmart Merchant and Modular Development teams, and external solution providers. The role balances long-term transformation with the practical realities of annual relays, assortment decisions, space planning, localization, and store-level execution.

Responsibilities

Modular Process Leadership

• Evaluate, design, and optimize the end-to-end modular planning processes across Walmart Beverage categories.
• Identify process inconsistencies, bottlenecks, capability gaps, and execution risks across assortment, flow, space planning, modular drawing, validation, submission, and implementation.
• Develop standardized workflows, governance, documentation, and best practices that improve modular effectiveness while preserving the flexibility needed across categories and store formats.
• Create clear process ownership, decision points, handoffs, controls, and escalation paths across the modular lifecycle.

Automation, Tools & Scalable Solutions

• Translate business and user needs into requirements for automation, system enhancements, analytical tools, reporting solutions, and workflow improvements.
• Build business cases that define the problem, expected value, resource or capability needs, risks, and measures of success for proposed solutions.
• Partner with Advanced Analytics, technical teams, external vendors, and third-party resources to design, pilot, refine, and scale solutions that improve productivity and execution quality.
• Evaluate where work should be simplified, automated, standardized, centralized, or supported.
• Create scorecards and review routines that make process performance visible, surface risks early, and enable corrective action.
• Support high-complexity modular work involving assortment changes, fixture variation, clustering, multiple store formats, ongoing project stores/remodels, and large-scale relay activity.
• Lead working sessions that clarify problems, define future-state processes, resolve cross-functional issues, and move decisions into action.
• Develop playbooks, toolkits, training, and hands-on learning that strengthen modular capabilities and drive adoption of new ways of working.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $110,700 - $185,250.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience in Category Management, Space Planning, Modular Planning, retail execution, or a related CPG function.
• Advanced expertise in Blue Yonder/JDA space planning and planogram development, including complex modular environments, assortment changes, fixture variation, and large-scale resets.
• Deep understanding of Walmart modular development and relay processes, including assortment workflows, project/remodel stores, and modular submission requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify operational inefficiencies and develop scalable solutions through process redesign, standardization, automation, technology, or resource-model changes.
• Strong project leadership, analytical problem-solving, and change-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives and critical timelines.

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