Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Manager of Advanced Analytics at Walmart, responsible for end-to-end analytics projects, stakeholder management, and developing/deploying machine learning models to solve business problems. Requires experience with SQL, data visualization, A/B testing, cloud platforms, and advanced Python libraries for ML.

What you'd actually do

  1. Owns workstreams and individual analytics related projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype.
  2. Help with risk associated with implementation.
  3. Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.
  4. Works with leadership/business partners to discuss and understand goals/functional objectives and key business challenges to develop hypotheses around current and future business issues; identifies functional analytics and research objectives and develops tactical research plans.
  5. Presents actionable recommendations to Directors to inform strategic and tactical functional initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leveraging SQL skills to process and analyze large-scale data.
  • Experience developing dashboards and data visualizations to effectively track and report on key metrics and performance trends.
  • Experience building advanced analytics solutions (statistical modeling and predictive modeling) in R and Python to drive insights into business and product growth.
  • Experience designing and executing A/B tests to evaluate product features and provide data-driven insights.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms and distributed databases (Google Cloud and Hive).
  • Experience partnering across diverse teams and stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable solutions.
  • Experience developing and deploying machine learning models using advanced Python libraries to solve complex business problems and support data-driven decision making.
  • Experience performing data processing, feature engineering, and data mining techniques on diverse and multimodal data sources.

What the JD emphasized

  • developing and deploying machine learning models using advanced Python libraries to solve complex business problems and support data-driven decision making
  • Experience performing data processing, feature engineering, and data mining techniques on diverse and multimodal data sources

Other signals

  • building advanced analytics solutions
  • developing and deploying machine learning models