Position: Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics
Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716
Duties: Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. People Development: Builds and leads a team to execute on business area or category objectives. Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge and work performance. Conducts performance and career development conversations, if applicable. Maintains team motivation and engagement. Mentors less experienced associates and managers. Business Partnerships: Consults with senior leadership/ business partners (e.g., Sr. Directors/Directors) to understand goals/functional objectives, understand and identify key business issues and formulate ideas to mitigate current and future business challenges/issues; confirms functional research objectives and oversees development of tactical research plans. Manages the creation of and presents actionable recommendations to Sr. Directors/Directors to contribute to business results. Serves as a subject matter expert to the business on market insights. Project Scope: Owns multiple projects end-to-end for a business area, category or prototype. Manages risk associated with implementation. Model Development: Develops data models (algorithms, approaches) for multiple projects within a business area or category to drive business results and value. Collaborates with project team to implement modeling solutions. Proof of Concept and Prototype: Manages the development and implementation of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms for multiple projects. Manages the testing and validation process to monitor the solution. Collaborates with Advanced Analytics Experts to develop new data analysis techniques. Data Collection and Analysis: Manages the development and application of advanced analytics to address unique business and technical problems, and support data-driven decision making. Makes strategic recommendations to analytics leadership based on data analysis. Supports team with the development of data analysis strategies; participates in strategy development conversations. Collaborates with functional leadership and cross-functional teams (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for multiple projects for a business area, category or prototype. Interacts on a daily basis and collaborates with external business partners and vendors.
Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Business, Accounting, Statistics, or a related field plus 3 years of experience in data analytics or related experience.
Skills required: Must have experience with: Utilizing Python programming to create data validations. Advanced data analysis techniques, including clustering, correlation analysis, feature engineering, and dimension reduction, to transform and prepare data for accurate demand forecast modeling. Statistical modeling for Order Replenishment to optimize store-level orders and balance cost effective strategies to reduce waste, minimize out of stock to curb lost sales. Developing SQL data pipelines for data preparation to support forecasting models. Advanced SQL skills to unlock valuable insights from client data, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of data analysis and validation processes. Leveraging Power BI and Python to craft visually captivating data stories, dashboards, and visualizations to effectively communicate cost savings, forecast accuracy improvements, and improvements in inventory management. Navigating retail sales datasets, detecting anomalies and unveiling complex patterns such as seasonality, cannibalization, and price elasticity. Piloting and commissioning incremental upgrades for Product Enhancement Delivery, prioritizing and managing backlogs. Establishing and implementing governance structures for agile projects. Performing requirements elicitation, gap analysis, stakeholder collaboration, analyzing data, creating process flows, and delivering concise reports to drive effective decision-making. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Rate of pay: $110,302.00 - 180,000.00/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.
Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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