Senior Director, Advanced Analytics

Walmart Walmart · Retail · San Bruno, CA +1

Senior Director of Advanced Analytics at Walmart, responsible for shaping business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes through advanced analytics. This role involves leading analytics initiatives, directing data model development, overseeing production-ready analytics solutions, and evaluating emerging AI/ML techniques. The focus is on translating business needs into analytics strategies and driving adoption of data-driven solutions across various business functions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes.
  2. Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies, articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design, innovation, and advocacy across channels.
  3. Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype, ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities.
  4. Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects, guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies.
  5. Oversee production‑ready analytics solutions, including complex algorithms and proofs of concept, and present them to cross‑functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Merchandising, Category Management) to drive adoption and buy‑in.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 8 years' experience in data analytics or related field.
  • 6 years' supervisory experience
  • Executive-level expertise in advanced analytics, data science, and modeling strategy within complex or matrixed organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, translating data and insights into clear, actionable business strategies.
  • Strong experience leading large-scale analytics programs, including model development, algorithm implementation, and production deployment.
  • Deep knowledge of modern analytics techniques and tools, including machine learning and emerging data science methodologies.
  • Proven people leadership capability, with experience developing senior leaders, managers, and high-performing analytics teams.
  • Exceptional cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to drive alignment and buy-in across diverse business stakeholders.
  • A strong strategic and customer-centric mindset, balancing innovation, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes.

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced analytics strategies
  • advanced analytics initiatives
  • data models
  • emerging analytics tools and techniques
  • machine learning
  • natural language processing
  • advanced analytics
  • data science
  • modeling strategy
  • large-scale analytics programs
  • model development
  • algorithm implementation
  • production deployment
  • modern analytics techniques and tools
  • machine learning
  • emerging data science methodologies

Other signals

  • Lead advanced analytics initiatives
  • Direct the development and deployment of data models
  • Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing)