(USA) Senior Manager, Renewable Energy Solutions

What you’ll do…

About Walmart Energy Transformation

The Walmart Energy Transformation strategy aims to decarbonize our operations while capturing emerging new value streams that help catalyze societal decarbonization.

The team now reports directly to the COO of Walmart US and the Chief Sustainability Officer.

This Organization Is Responsible For

Ensuring energy security, reliability, and affordability through purchasing energy and optimizing for the lowest cost in regulated and wholesale markets. Leveraging our unique assets and positioning to build value-creating businesses. And maintaining our zero emissions leadership. Walmart has recently committed to bringing 10 GW of clean energy online by 2030, in addition to our publicly stated goals of 50% clean powered by 2025, 100% clean powered by 2035, and zero emissions in our operations by 2040. In addition to new build clean energy assets, we aim to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions across our facilities, and transition our fleet to zero emissions vehicles. We also aim to build a public EV charging network to provide energy choice and affordability for our customers and local communities.

We are a team of seasoned energy veterans dedicated to realizing Walmart’s regenerative commitments and leveraging Walmart’s platform to support the decarbonization of our customers, associates, communities and suppliers. Because energy touches everything, we work across Walmart, particularly real estate, facilities, supply chain, network design, transportation and customer experience. We have come from across Walmart, utilities, developers, banking, clean energy consulting and environmental NGOs. We are innovators and change agents determined to make an impact. We are analytical and entrepreneurial; thoughtful and practical.

The Senior Manager, Renewable Energy Solutions is responsible for supporting the execution and management of day to day and long-term, strategic partnerships with renewable energy developers to secure programmatic access to renewable energy globally across Walmart’s geographic footprint. This includes executing long-term power purchase agreements and other value-creating initiatives to facilitate and accelerate the decarbonization ambitions of Walmart and/or its supplier network.

You’ll Make An Impact By

Strategic Renewable Procurement: Assist in defining and executing on a long-term global strategy to accelerate Walmart’s progress toward its 100% renewable energy goals in a manner that delivers value to shareholders, customers, and/or associates.

Execution of Power Purchase Agreements: Collaborate with renewable energy developers to negotiate and execute long-term power purchase agreements that align with Walmart’s sustainability goals. Ensure that all contractual obligations are met and that the agreements contribute to the decarbonization efforts of the company.

Capital Deployment: To lead execution of strategy for capital deployment into offsite renewable energy projects, targeted at opportunities that deliver economic value, enable emissions reductions, and deepen customer and/or associate relationships through the expansion of access to low-cost, reliable clean energy.

Portfolio Management: Executing on Walmart’s power origination strategy for conventional and renewable power procurement and origination efforts. Leveraging experience in power trading and origination, and renewable energy procurement to guide on risk management and optimization strategies to manage a multi-GW portfolio of offsite renewable purchases and physical energy needs for thousands of stores.

Pipeline Management: Manage a pipeline of new opportunities for renewable energy partnerships. Identify potential projects and evaluate their feasibility and alignment with Walmart’s sustainability objectives. Collaborate with internal teams to assess the viability and potential impact of each opportunity.

Origination of new opportunities: Build and maintain strong relationships with the renewable energy and decarbonization project developer community to ensure access to high quality investment opportunities. Originate and execute on value-creating initiatives to facilitate and accelerate decarbonization ambitions of Walmart and our supplier network.

Program Success Reporting: Conduct analysis and reporting on the success of renewable energy programs, including tracking progress towards renewable energy goals. Provide regular updates to key stakeholders and senior management on the performance of renewable energy initiatives.

Business Plan Execution: Drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; develop and communicate business plans and priorities; remove barriers and obstacles that impact performance; provide resources; identify performance standards; measure progress and adjust performance accordingly; develop contingency plans; and demonstrate adaptability and support continuous learning.

Continuous Evolution: Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency, revenue opportunities, and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

Corporate Responsibility: Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.

Live our Values: Culture Champion – Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart’s commitment to communities, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.

Live our Values: Servant Leadership – Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Embrace Change: Curiosity & Courage – Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Embrace Change: Digital Transformation & Change – Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Deliver for the Customer: Customer Focus – Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.

Deliver for the Customer: Strategic Thinking – Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.

Focus on our Associates: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.

Focus on our Associates: Collaboration & Influence – Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Focus on our Associates: Talent Management – Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

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 Finance, Business or related field

2+ years of experience in the renewable energy industry

Preferred Qualifications…

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

3+ years of experience in the renewable energy industry focused on origination, development, and/or financing of large-scale projects., Excellent written and verbal communication skills., Experience operating in a large, global organization., Understanding of both competitive and regulated energy markets., Understanding of the renewable energy project development process and key drivers of project value.

Primary Location…

2501 Se J Street Ste B, Bentonville, AR 72712-7761, United States of America