Sonia Spinks
Senior Director Merchandise Operations - Beauty, Walmart
Sonia has a relentless focus on the needs of customers, innovation, and empowering her team at Walmart Beauty. Her retail career began at Sam’s Club in 2008 as the program lead for the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology initiative, which resulted in the first ever proof of concept for a point of sale checkout in less than 30 seconds. Soon, she was on to building systems and processes for assortment, replenishment and PO management, then focused on stocking and receiving processes. Her experience leading planning and allocation, as well as merchandise strategy at Sam's Club positioned her for success at Walmart US as the Merchandise Operations Senior Director for Beauty.Sonia is passionate about seeing all women succeed. She chairs the advisory board of Interform Art and has served as co-chair on the Women’s Resource Council and a co-lead for the Walmart Career Moms. She is a Graduate of the Leadership Academy Program and successfully completed GAP Partnership Negotiations Training, and now participates in the ASCENT Program and led a Mentoring Lean-In Circle. Sonia is a writer, social content contributor, a Big Sister with Big Brothers and Big Sisters program, active in her local graduate chapter of her sorority, and youth sports coach.