Manager I, Advanced Analytics - Walmart Business

Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Manager I, Advanced Data Analytics - Walmart Business
While it's important that Walmart continues to drive the day-to-day business and focuses on serving our customers today, it's also critical we're looking ahead to the customer and business needs of tomorrow. The Walmart Business team is a newly created group designed to do just that. This venture is a multi-billion-dollar opportunity rooted in leveraging existing Walmart assets, building new capabilities, innovating business models, and laying the groundwork for a sizeable new business.
Walmart is currently seeking a Manager I, Advanced Data Analytics to play a unique role supporting the new business-spanning business, demand, customer, site, assortment, pricing and supply chain analytics. The position will be deeply engaged in the development of our business strategy; they will ensure both that our decisions are data driven, and that we architect our products to gather (the right) data throughout the customer journey.
The individual in this capacity will have top notch data and analytical skills, an ability to connect data to business questions or objectives, and strong people skills. This person will support all things data related: identify data sources, support quality checks, report out on data trends and findings, analyze data, solve complex problems using data insights, and tell / visualize the story behind the data in powerful ways. Someone who is a self-starter, and passionate about discovering and solving complicated problems, learning complex systems, working with numbers, and organizing and communicating data and reports will be successful in this role.
It's an exciting time to join us as this team is just forming, offering the chance to influence the culture and behaviors. You'll have the chance to be an intrapreneur and build something truly impactful from the ground up-all while being backed by the strength of Walmart and having access to the assets of the world's largest omnichannel retailer
You'll make an impact by:

• Working effectively with our Business, Product, Design, Technology, and Data teams to understand our strategy and operating model and translate that into the right analytic approaches, data requirements and data models
• Bringing data to inform our strategic and operational decision making
• Driving complex data and trend analyses to root cause issues and propose improvements
• Defining, developing and communicating key metrics and business trends
• Helping us to architect our experiences to collect the right data to strengthen our business
• Operating with agility while effectively leveraging corporate structure to achieve goals
• Gaining support from the broader Walmart enterprise by engaging with cross-functional teams, leadership, and key stakeholders
• Automating data and analytic solutions at scale

You'll sweep us off our feet if...

• You operate with customer centricity at the forefront
• You have experience working in multiple business areas / functions / segments at Walmart and understand Walmart's data infrastructure and data products
• You have a strong understanding of statistics and advanced analytics with applied experience on analyzing large data sets
• You have strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• You have sound knowledge of managing data for experiments (sampling, labelling, EDA, etc.)
• You have experience with experimental design and A/B testing
• You have strong skills in Python, R, SQL and Hive queries
• You have experience transforming/automating data within cloud architectures (i.e.. Google Cloud Platform)
• You have hands on experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau, R Shiny, and/or Looker
• You have strong people and communication skills
• You can work effectively with internal stakeholders, including data scientists and data engineers
• You are curious, proactive and comfortable working in unstructured environments

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

• 2-3 years' experience in business analytics
• Proficient with SQL (experience in GCP, Hive, BigQuery preferred)
• Hands on experience with BI tools; Tableau /R shiny/Looker / Power BI
• Experience in extracting and automating large-scale data
• Ability to explain/present complicated/advanced analytical methodology and results to non-technical audiences
• Excellent communication skills. Conducting written and verbal presentation to share insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

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

• Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics
• Proficient in Python, Spark, Scala, or R
• Comfortable using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)
• Extensive Experience in leading complex projects from start to end
• Experience in quantitative modeling and statistics.

Benefits and 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, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
Who We Are
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .
The annual salary range for this position is $84,000.00-$144,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
- Stock equity incentives
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 1 year's experience in data analytics or related field OR 3 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.
Analytics in retail operations, Experience using in-database analytics, SAS, SQL, or similar programming languages to retrieve, merge, and hygiene data from multiple sources or platforms
Primary Location...
121 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5989, United States of America