(usa) Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics role at Walmart, focusing on supply chain and store operations. The role involves process improvement, data analysis, providing actionable insights, defining KPIs, developing data visualizations, and collaborating with data engineering teams to support business decisions and transform operations. Requires strong analytical and communication skills, with experience in SQL, Python, and data visualization tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partnering with business and product stakeholders to solve challenging business problems and identify trends and opportunities
  2. Applying your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and provide actionable insights
  3. Defining and evaluating key performance metrics for new product launches
  4. Developing data visualizations to monitor and quantify the impact of the product initiatives and unique business challenges
  5. Identifying new levers to help improve key financial data insights, understanding root causes for change in metrics

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • data analysis
  • quantitative analysis
  • data mining
  • story telling with data visualizations
  • oral and written communication
  • cross-functional relationship building

Nice to have

  • retail experience
  • transformational roles in Replenishment, Supply Chain, and Stores operations
  • Spark
  • Scala
  • R
  • Power BI

What the JD emphasized

  • prior experience in retail space with a preferred background in transformational roles from Replenishment, Supply Chain and Stores operations
  • strong exploratory data analysis skills and ability to make analytical, data driven recommendations and solutions
  • experienced with languages used to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets (SQL, Python etc.,)
  • strong story telling experience with data visualizations in Tableau, Looker, etc.
  • Compelling, persuasive oral and written communication skills and can build strong cross-functional relationships