Senior Manager Advanced Analytics – Supplier Excellence

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role focuses on influencing omni-channel inventory decisions and product availability by leveraging analytical prowess to transform complex data into relevant insights. It involves setting strategic direction, driving visibility to business performance through KPIs, providing data-driven insights, and partnering with data science teams to leverage advanced predictive analytics. The role requires strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and influence skills to shape systems and products for the future.

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
  • Data Visualization
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Strategic Planning
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Data Analysis
  • KPI Definition and Monitoring
  • Predictive Analytics (leveraging data science teams)

Nice to have

  • Experience in retail or supply chain operations
  • Experience with automation technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • critical thinking
  • problem-solving
  • vision
  • analytical prowess
  • complex information
  • analytical skills
  • data-driven insights
  • ambiguous environments
  • cross-functional stakeholders