Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics – Inventory Flow

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Manager role focused on influencing the future of omni-channel inventory decisions and product availability. This role involves shaping the development of systems and products by leveraging analytical prowess to transform complex data into relevant insights, driving business process improvement, and defining product capability requirements. The position requires strategic direction setting, KPI definition, data-driven insights, and partnering with data science teams for predictive analytics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Setting strategic direction on corporate initiatives related to business technology capabilities (products) and evolves work processes to leverage automation for an enhanced Walmart customer experience.
  2. Driving visibility to business performance by defining KPIs, and how they will be measured and monitored for broad utilization across large groups of stakeholders.
  3. Providing data-driven insights and analysis to influence the development and deployment of business strategies.
  4. Becoming an invaluable strategic partner to internal stakeholders by partnering with various internal teams to unify business processes, identify opportunities for automation, and scale best practice & governance across the organization.
  5. Communicating effectively to achieve leadership support and influence large groups of cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • R
  • Alteryx
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Looker

Nice to have

  • advanced predictive analytics

What the JD emphasized

  • critical thinking
  • problem-solving
  • vision
  • business partner influence
  • analytical prowess
  • complex data
  • business process improvement
  • product capability requirements
  • aspirational technology needs
  • end-to-end supply chain
  • visionary
  • customer expectations
  • leapfrog competition
  • inspiring
  • leading broad organizational changes
  • educate and motivate
  • effective storytelling
  • build trust quickly
  • lead by influence
  • sustainable business impact
  • partnership
  • end-to-end ownership
  • big data
  • translate complex information
  • user-friendly insights
  • product requirements
  • influencing business strategy
  • analytical skills
  • common analytical languages
  • data visualization tools
  • SQL
  • R
  • Alteryx
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Looker
  • product
  • data science
  • tech teams
  • new business capabilities
  • business technology capabilities
  • automation
  • enhanced Walmart customer experience
  • business performance
  • defining KPIs
  • measured and monitored
  • broad utilization
  • large groups of stakeholders
  • data-driven insights
  • analysis
  • influence the development and deployment
  • business strategies
  • invaluable strategic partner
  • internal stakeholders
  • partnering with various internal teams
  • unify business processes
  • identify opportunities for automation
  • scale best practice & governance
  • organization
  • Communicating effectively
  • achieve leadership support
  • influence large groups
  • cross-functional stakeholders
  • business &/or statistical analysis
  • understand drivers of performance
  • predict outcomes
  • influence business decisions
  • Partnering with data science teams
  • leverage advanced predictive analytics
  • various business use cases
  • Successfully navigating in ambiguous environments
  • multiple cross-functional stakeholders
  • pursuit of end-to-end business process improvement
  • Promoting and supporting company mission, values, & standards of ethics and integrity
  • training and providing direction
  • ensuring compliance
  • utilizing and supporting the Open-Door Policy