Director, Insights Consulting - Market Intelligence

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role focuses on delivering market and wallet share intelligence to senior leadership, shaping business strategies, and strengthening Walmart's competitive advantage. It involves creating recurring reports, advising on competitive dynamics, identifying market opportunities and risks, and promoting data literacy across the enterprise. The role requires strong consultative, communication, and analytical skills, with a deep understanding of market data, macro-economics, and customer research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver high quality and timely recurring reports and insights that drive the organization’s understanding of competitive landscape and inform enterprise growth strategies
  2. Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, translating complex competitive and customer dynamics into clear implications and recommendations
  3. Proactively identify emerging competitive risks, white‑space opportunities, and structural shifts in the market landscape
  4. Champion enterprise‑wide education, training, and consultation to improve data literacy and the effective use of market share and customer insights in decision‑making

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Market Research, or related field and 7 + years’ experience in data analytics, customer insights, product management, management consulting, retail domain experience
  • Consultative experience and thought leadership skills
  • Outstanding communication, presentation, and story-telling skills
  • Deep knowledge in syndicated and market data (e.g., POS, Consumer Panel data)
  • Strong analytic skills
  • A solid understanding of macro-economics, customer research, relational databases, and visualization tools
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field and 5 years' experience in marketing research, data analytics, consulting, or related field OR 7 years' experience in marketing research, data analytics, consulting, or related field
  • 4 years' supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams

Nice to have

  • MBA preferred
  • Customer Analytics in Retail Operations
  • Leading a cross-functional team
  • Supervisory
  • Masters: Business Administration