Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics - Merchandising... at Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas

Job Description:

What you'll do at




Position Summary...




What you'll do...




Market Intelligence at Walmart is one of the core capabilities that drives Walmart's business across its channels and marketplaces. It touches nearly everything in Walmart's omni business, from how we make pricing decisions, drive competitive strategy, understand how market is changing. Accurate and timely market data is critical to protecting our "Save Money, Live Better" promise, operating at low cost, and helping customers make purchase decisions.




We are looking for a very driven leader to lead the development and execution of new capabilities required to ensure the continuous improvement and accuracy of our market intelligence platforms. You will drive a program and set the vision, drive business priorities, and co-develop the roadmap with a team of data scientists, engineers, and product managers covering various capabilities. This position also manages the launch, rollout, and adoption of capabilities across the Walmart US business.





What you'll do...

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  Develop and implement strategies to bring most accurate, timely, and consistent market insights. Ensure the continuous improvement of data quality and completeness across Walmart's omni-business.
  
  
  


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  Define business priorities across channels, 1P and Marketplace, collaborating with cross functional teams (engineering, product, data science, and operations), ensuring there is a strong roadmap.
  
  
  


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  Manage internal and external vendor partners who service competitor and market data
  
  
  


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  Drive, build, and develop advanced analytics capabilities that will unearth insights and enable users to make better business decisions.
  
  
  


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  Drive the adoption of data science-driven mechanisms and machine learning models to continuously evaluate and improve catalog data quality.
  
  
  


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  Improve operational and cost efficiencies by building process and tools that can scale, using technology.
  
  
  


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  Define metrics that will help us measure and understand data accuracy and completeness
  
  
  


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  Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team, encouraging experimentation with new data sources, technologies, and approaches to help making better pricing and assortment decisions.
  
  
  

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.




Preferred qualifications:

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  Advanced Analytics - Applied Econometrics, Advanced Calculus, Statistical Methods, Data Visualization, Decision Analytics & Optimization, ML, Big Data, Social Network Analytics
  
  
  


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  Analytics Tools: Excel, Tableau, AWS, BigQuery, NoSQL,Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Gurobi, JIRA, Stata, Git
  
  
  


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  Languages: R, Python (Pandas, Seaborn, Scikit-learn), SQL,Hive, Pig, Impala, Sqoop, Kafka, VBA, Shell
  
  
  


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  Techniques: Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Optimization, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Warehouse, NLP
  
  
  

Benefits & Perks:



Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, FTO, multiple health plans, and much more.


Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.




Minimum Qualifications...



Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.


Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 4 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 6 years'
experience in data analytics or related field.




Preferred Qualifications...



Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.


Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis, Statistical programming languages (for example, SAS, R)


Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics




Primary Location...

702 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America



About Walmart



At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?


Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.


"The people you work with are ready to help without hesitation to make sure you succeed, it's just part of the culture." - Shelby, Project Analyst



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