Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics - Emerging Formats

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role is for a Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics focused on Emerging Formats within Walmart. The primary responsibilities include measuring and monitoring performance, diagnosing performance gaps, modeling scenarios for business strategies, prototyping solutions, and leading cross-functional delivery. The role emphasizes speed, agility, ownership, curiosity, data influence, and a bias for action. While it involves analytics and potentially using AI tools, the core craft is not AI/ML model building, but rather strategic problem-solving and performance management within a retail context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Measure & monitor performance
  2. Diagnose gaps
  3. Model scenarios
  4. Prototype solutions
  5. Lead cross-functional delivery

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 4 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field

Nice to have

  • Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis
  • Statistical programming languages (for example, SAS, R)
  • Masters: Business Administration
  • Masters: Information Systems
  • Masters: Statistics