Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role focuses on translating associate feedback and workforce data into actionable insights and recommendations for executives. The Senior Manager will own the end-to-end process of gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing data, and will be responsible for driving alignment and follow-through on key insights to achieve measurable business outcomes. The role requires strong analytical and data storytelling skills, with experience in mature insights environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Translate associate feedback (ideas, concerns, engagement trends) into clear, prioritized actions and recommendations tailored to executives, field leaders, and People Partners.
  2. Independently gather, analyze, and synthesize data from multiple sources to respond to business questions and deliver end-to-end insights.
  3. Partner with analysts to validate and explore data, uncover trends, and define the “so what” and “now what” that drives business decisions.
  4. Design compelling dashboards, reports, and presentations that simplify complex data and make it easy for leaders to take action.
  5. Build insight narratives that connect data to business outcomes, ensuring leaders understand not just what is happening, but what actions to take and why.

Skills

Required

  • Strong analytical skills
  • independently pull, analyze, and interpret data
  • Excel
  • Qualtrics
  • Power BI
  • own the full lifecycle of an insight request
  • Advanced data storytelling abilities
  • translate insights into business action
  • Experience in mature insights environments
  • designing user-friendly dashboards and reports
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • drive alignment and action
  • operate with immediate impact
  • strategic, action-oriented mindset

What the JD emphasized

  • no heavy coding required
  • full lifecycle of an insight request
  • data storytelling
  • translate insights into business action
  • closing the loop from insight to action is expected