Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

What you'll do...

Job title: Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Work address: 702 SW 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Business Partnerships:

Consults with senior leadership/ business partners (e.g., Sr. Directors/Directors) to understand overall goals/functional objectives, decipher key business challenges, identify tactics to anticipate and mitigate business challenges/issues and develop potential success criteria. Focuses efforts on items that have maximum impact to the business.

Contributes to business area strategic planning by providing input and actionable recommendations and solutions to senior leadership based on advanced research and analytical findings. 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. Project Scope: Owns complex projects end-to-end for a business area, category or prototype.

Manages risk associated with implementation. Model Development: Develops data models (algorithms, approaches) for complex 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 complex projects.

Manages the testing and validation process to monitor the solution. Evaluates new data analysis techniques to support prototype development. Collaborates with cross-functional partners (e.g., software engineering, category management) on prototypes and algorithms.

Data Collection and Analysis: Leads the development and execution of advanced analytics to address unique business and technical problems, and support data-driven decision making. Makes strategic recommendations to cross-functional leadership based on analysis results.

Collaborates across all analytics functions to develop and implement data analysis strategies and anticipate future trends and analysis. Collaboration: Collaborates with functional leadership and cross-functional teams (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for complex projects for a business area, category or prototype. Collaborates and partners with external business partners and vendors.

Minimum education and experience required: 6 years of experience in data analytics, or related experience OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics or related field plus 4 years of experience in data analytics or related experience

Skills Required: Must have experience with: working with large data sets and visualizing them via Tableau/Power BI; leveraging SQL (Teradata or Big Query) in creating meaningful insights for business innovation; Network flow and design; Inventory replenishment systems (JDA or SAP); Cost-to-Serve modelling across network spanning over FC/DC/Cross-Dock nodes; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); Statistical Process Control (SPC); implementing Design of Experiments (DoE) with proof of concepts (POC) or prototype design; Multi-echelon inventory optimization; Order review and planning; Program Management; and SQL, Alteryx and Tableau. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.