2026 Corporate Intern Conversion

About the Role

MUST HAVE COMPLETED A SUMMER 2026 WALMART OR SAMS CLUB INTERNSHIP TO BE ELIGIBLE. IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROLE.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Acumen

• Understand member behavior, demand trends, buying behaviors across and within specific channels.

• Monitor member feedback, item reviews, and alternate information channels (e.g., social media).

• Apply understanding to ways of working and plans for improvement.

• Interpret member data (e.g., purchase frequency, NPS, customer satisfaction), share findings, and develop plans for improvement with cross-functional partners, peers, and leaders.

• Identify opportunities to pursue new items and categories and improve member experiences.

• Research industry macroeconomic trends (e.g., commodity prices, unemployment rates, purchasing power) and competitor strategies/offerings.

• Communicate findings and insights to cross-functional partners, peers, and leaders.

• Weigh pros and cons of channel strategies for items within an assigned assortment.

• Review financial implications (e.g., shipping and packaging costs) of item channel availability.

• Maintain open communication with peers and cross-functional partners to understand opportunities, coordinate strategic decisions, and simplify ways of working.

• Digital Literacy and Analytics

• Review merchandise and sales data/metrics (e.g., item/category/department sales, turns, instock) by leveraging appropriate tools, dashboards, and data sources.

• Interpret and summarize pertinent information.

• Provide recommendations on the item decision process.

• Collect and review industry and competitor data (e.g., competitor sales results, trade surveys, data firm reports) and share findings/insights with cross-functional partners, peers, and leaders.

• Explore alternative and emerging data sources (e.g., search engine results, external research publications).

• Provide recommendations to cross-functional partners, peers, and leaders on the applicability of emerging data sources.

• Leverage data analysis tools to basic data sets, perform basic analysis, derive insights, and create or interpret basic reports.

• Supply Chain and Operations

• Coordinate with partners to identify inefficiencies related to Supply Chain and Operations (e.g., supplier service delivery schedules, inventory levels, flow packaging, merchandise display standards, item placement).

• Maintain open communication with supplier and vendor partners to understand Supply Chain processes and review performance.

• Collaborate with Supply Chain partners to understand network capacity, transportation considerations, and other logistics complications.

• Maintain open communication with Operations and Supply Chain functional partners to understand process changes and opportunities for improvement.

• Follow up with partners to understand shrink and waste resulting from merchandise and supplier issues.

• Monitor item quality feedback and identify quality issue trends.

• Follow up with Operational partners on the impact of item placement and planograms on associate and member experience.

• Monitor the impacts of actions taken to improve Supply Chain and Operations efficiencies on the profit and loss statement.

• Financial Management

• Understand the elements of profit and loss statements.

• Derive insights and research opportunities to take corrective actions.

• Support the development of business cases and recommendations to deliver projected return on investment or cost savings.

• Conduct hindsight analysis as applicable.

• Review in-season reporting and financial results for key seasonal events.

• Coordinate with cross-functional partners to determine financial plans and inventory purchase amounts.

• Strategic Negotiations

• Understand and employ company policies and practices, and applicable laws and regulations for negotiating.

• Utilize techniques for establishing rapport and building trust.

• Negotiate favorable results with suppliers in basic negotiations.

• Understand the impacts of terms of negotiation (e.g., cost of goods, volume, payment) on overall value derived for the company.

• Understand the value that needs to be achieved for the company in negotiations.

• Protect company positions while demonstrating a willingness to create value for the other party.

• Research supplier capabilities to understand negotiation limits.

• Maintain open communication with peers with a shared supplier base to ensure information is shared and prior experiences with suppliers are disseminated.

• Assortment Strategy and Management

• Share knowledge and insights with peers.

• Analyze assortment decision effectiveness, evaluate product/category viability, and develop actionable plans to optimize item and assortment performance, considering financial and customer loyalty impacts.

• Analyze and develop insights on assortment performance by channel, assessing benefits and tradeoffs.

• Share assortment information and insights with cross-functional partners to drive synergies and enable cohesive member experiences.

• Create hypotheses of changes to assortment to predict sales transferability.

• Leverage online channels to test assortment additions to drive incremental sales and member excitement.

• Item Merchandising

• Analyze the role of private and national brands across items in the category, department, and assortment, providing recommendations for partners and leaders.

• Decide the role of items (e.g., repeat purchases, seasonal buys, special buys, loss leaders) within the assortment.

• Identify ways to drive value for members while creating value for the organization.

• Provide recommendations to cross-functional partners and leaders.

• Share knowledge with peers.

• Review and provide input on product quality guidelines, research and identify post-launch quality issues, solicit member feedback, and provide feedback on packaging guidelines.

• Review item placement and planograms to provide feedback on potential issues or opportunities to improve space utilization.

• Solicit feedback from Operations partners on item placement.

• Demonstrates uptodate expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others.

• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, identifying business needs, determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices, monitoring progress and results, recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Values & Behaviors

• Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others, drives a positive associate and customer/member experience, embraces differences, supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected, and contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
• Respect the Individual: Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively to achieve objectives, communicates with impact, listens attentively, and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models Walmart values, and leads by example to foster the company culture. Supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world.
• Act with Integrity: Follows the law, code of conduct, and company policies, and encourages others to do the same. Supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, reinforces the culture of non-retaliation, listens to concerns, and acts with accountability for achieving results consistent with values.
• Act with Integrity: Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer/member first, applying an omnimerchant mindset, and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a broad perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
• Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Strive for Excellence: Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Requirements & Tech Stack

No specific technical requirements or tools were listed.

Qualifications

No specific qualifications were listed.