Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the team:
The Innovation and Technology Strategy team at Walmart Global Tech India drives enterprise-wide innovation through structured programs spanning startup partnerships, technology foresight, internal idea discovery, academia collaboration, and large-scale innovation events. We operate as a lean, high-leverage team that works closely with senior leadership, business pillars, enabling functions, and external consulting partners to institutionalize innovation as a way of working — moving beyond isolated experiments to a portfolio-driven, outcome-oriented approach that delivers business impact.
What You’ll Do:
Orchestrate large-scale innovation programs
Drive the vision and adoption of a innovation platform that serves as the digital backbone for the organizations innovation lifecycle — encompassing idea discovery, hackathon orchestration, innovation maturity assessment, and leadership dashboards — creating a scalable system that enables associates and leaders to participate in innovation as a way of working.




Serve as a strategic partner to the team by co-owning the innovation charter, driving accountability for outcomes through structured governance frameworks, and contributing substantively to thought leadership, thematic research, innovation playbooks, and enterprise-wide capability building.
Champion a shift from activity-led execution to outcome-driven governance by establishing metrics frameworks across all innovation programs, enabling data-backed decision-making at the leadership level, and building scalable systems and playbooks that allow a lean team to operate across multiple programs with speed and rigor.
Shape and scale the organizations startup collaboration program by identifying high-impact use-cases aligned to enterprise priorities, cultivating relationships across the startup ecosystem, driving structured evaluation and business case development, and converting successful pilots into long-term strategi

📌 (IND) MANAGER, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (Bengaluru)
🏢 Walmart
📍 Bengaluru