Kimberly Stockton
FAYETTEVILLE,AR
Summary
Senior management professional, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organizational success. Skilled in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication, and building a high-performing team.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Mgr, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, PSC
Walmart
09.2022 - Current
- Build Product Safety and Compliance programs to ensure product compliance with new and evolving regulatory obligations.
- Monitor program execution through KPIs and lead initiatives to improve team efficiency.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure program awareness and communicate change impact to other business areas.
- Lead by example and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and trust.
- Advise Merchants on regulatory requirements by product category.
- Lead cross-functional meetings to align compliance strategies for upcoming launches.
- Track regulatory changes and translate them into actionable guidance for internal teams.
- Leading and developing a team of managers to deliver high-impact results and growth opportunities
- Managing all notice of violations, regulatory outreach and communicating action items to regulators
- Outreach to Marketplace Sellers related to Attributes, Seller Consequence, and Product Safety Governance Rules and Regulations
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
Sr Mgr, ECommerce Product Safety & Compliance
Walmart
01.2020 - 09.2022
- Collaborate with all eCommerce Compliance Teams and being a PSC Champion
- Support Marketplace Principles by supporting WFS, including shipping restrictions, global policies (compliance eCommerce rules) and case management recalls
- Collaborate across stakeholders to ensure program awareness and communication
- Collaborating with all Wal Mart acquisition companies and communicate new regulation, recalls, new processes that could impact the acquisition business, and provide support
- Monitoring program execution and leading continuous improvement and communicating with eCommerce teams
Manager II, ECommerce Technical Quality Manager
Walmart
05.2017 - 01.2020
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop action plans to improve star rating items for eCommerce
- Develop strategies for identifying quality and performance gaps
- Completing benchmarks for updated specs and quality cues
- Analyzing data and managing quality action reports; and reviewing stakeholders
- Collaborating with 3rd party approved labs on technical quality and performance protocol
Manager I, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, PSC
Walmart
08.2015 - 05.2017
- Determine impact on business area, developing and coordinating execution of action plans to ensure compliance with enacted legislation
- Executing specific Product Safety and Compliance programs per direction of leadership while recommending and developing strategies for program improvement
- Drafting supplier communication documents to inform Walmart suppliers of Product Safety and Compliance requirements
- Monitoring Product Safety and Compliance testing program executed by 3rd party laboratories and collaborating with suppliers to ensure that testing gaps are closed, and testing failures dispositioned.
- Collaborating across stakeholders to ensure program awareness and communicating change impact to other business areas
Sourcing/Category Compliance Manager
Direct Sourcing Group
01.2011 - 07.2015
- Work closely with buyer/planner and product development to develop best in class category based on quality, compliance costing, margin and retail
- Analyzed the market to forecast trends and provide strategic direction to internal and external counterparts by category
- Collaborated with mass market retailers’ product development teams and strategy teams through the product development process, sourcing, product compliance, costing, production, and delivery to achieve results
- Attend summits with the buyer to assist in supporting items
- Completion of commitment letters for all suppliers
Education
Certified Supplier Business Analyst Certification - Business
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Bentonville, ARSkills
- Experience working with government agencies and policy teams
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience with compliance platforms, and operational reporting tools
- Work cross-functionally to build strong work relationships resulting in program improvements
- Legal research experience and the ability to translate complex regulations into practical guidance
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with data-driven decision-making
- Strategic mindset to compliance, helping influence product design and sourcing decisions that align with regulatory and brand standards
Timeline
Sr Mgr, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, PSC
Walmart
09.2022 - Current
Sr Mgr, ECommerce Product Safety & Compliance
Walmart
01.2020 - 09.2022
Manager II, ECommerce Technical Quality Manager
Walmart
05.2017 - 01.2020
Manager I, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, PSC
Walmart
08.2015 - 05.2017
Sourcing/Category Compliance Manager
Direct Sourcing Group
01.2011 - 07.2015
Certified Supplier Business Analyst Certification - Business
Northwest Arkansas Community College
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