Manager, Business Analysis and Insights - Walmart Connect

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR +1

Manager, Business Analysis And Insights for Walmart Connect Sales Strategy and Enablement Team. Focuses on digital advertising and e-commerce, involving stakeholder management, insights generation, reporting, and strategy recommendations. Requires strong analytical skills, SQL proficiency, and ability to collaborate with technical teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with leaders in Emerging Sales and other inter-dependent teams to design, develop, and propose solutions for reporting and measurement needs.
  2. Support the process of defining KPIs, collecting data, ensuring data quality for appropriate measurement.
  3. Own and develop scaled reporting solutions for Sales teams.
  4. Manage reporting collateral, including dashboards, to facilitate teams' understanding of business health and goal achievement levels.
  5. Address ambiguous strategic questions facing the business and collaborate with leaders across Walmart Connect to build business cases for new business initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • 2-3 years of work experience in a role requiring analytical skills, such as business analyst, data analyst, or statistical analyst.
  • Understanding of sales processes and tools, including Salesforce CRM systems, sales quota, account planning, territory assignment, performance management, forecasting and territory assignment, and analytics, to support a world-class Sales Team.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to shift styles based on the setting and audience across all mediums including emails, presentations, and meetings.
  • Proficiency in writing complex and efficient SQL queries to extract data.
  • Ability to work with internal and external customers to gather and document business requirements and user stories, propose solutions, evaluate feasibility, conduct technology assessments, ROI analysis, and assess complexity for various potential processes and system solutions.
  • Ability to partner with core internal technical teams (CRM, Data Warehouse, etc.) to design and implement sales operations solutions that address customer needs.
  • The ability to communicate findings and make recommendations for improvement clearly and effectively.
  • The capability to model and simulate improvements to existing business processes, evaluate 'what-if' scenarios, and conduct dry runs to identify and resolve gaps before implementation.
  • Capacity to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize responsibilities.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, even when faced with ambiguity.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree (MBA, Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field).
  • Advanced knowledge of data mining, SQL, data warehousing, statistical analysis tools, Data Science, Modeling Skills, Excel, and data visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI.
  • Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
  • Excellent organizational skills, including prioritization, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
  • Exposure to and understanding of digital advertising.
  • Experience working closely with a distributed sales team.