Biggest Challenges Faced By A Product Marketing Manager At Walmart
Eileen's biggest challenge as a Product Marketing Manager at Walmart is the lack of established processes within the new team, leading to inefficient cross-functional collaboration; the team is currently working on defining leadership roles and meeting structures to improve efficiency and avoid "wasted time and a lot of like spinning around."
Teamwork, Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving, Overcoming Challenges
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Eileen Wong
Product Marketing Manager
Walmart
Cornell
Columbia MBA
Hospitality Administration
Apparel, Beauty, Retail & Fashion
Communication and Marketing
Immigrant
Video Highlights
1. Building and improving cross-functional team processes
2. Establishing clear leadership and decision-making structures within a new team
3. Optimizing meeting efficiency and organization to minimize wasted time
Transcript
What is your biggest challenge in your current role?
We're a really new team right now, so we don't have strong processes. I think what that means is we don't really fully know of the cross-functional team who the leader is, or who gets the final say.
Even when we run meetings, there's no culture around it. Sometimes meetings can go sideways or they're not really organized, and it's unclear in a cross-functional setting who should be running it.
I think there's a lot of wasted time and a lot of spinning around. But I think part of that is just that we're a new team and figuring out how to better work together.
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