Gisel Ruiz Biography

Gisel Ruiz is executive vice president and chief operating officer for Walmart U.S. and is responsible for the company’s U.S. operations which includes more than 4100 discount stores Supercenters Neighborhood Markets and Walmart Express formats. Additional responsibilities include oversight of the U.S. Asset Protection Real Estate and Store Innovations organizations. Ruiz was promoted to the role in February 2012.
Previously Ruiz was executive vice president of People for Walmart U.S. with responsibility for human resources and store innovations supporting more than 1.2 million associates. She helped transform the company's approach to talent management and leveraged technology to drive changes that increased efficiencies and improved the associate and customer experience.
Ruiz began her career at Walmart as a store management trainee in 1992. She has held a variety of leadership positions in store operations labor relations and human resources. In 2006 she became vice president regional general manager in the field operations division and was responsible for 150 Walmart stores in western Texas and New Mexico. From 2008 to 2010 Ruiz served as senior vice president of Walmart People leading the human resources organization for more than 3700 stores across the United States.

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