(usa) Senior Manager, Data Science - Supply Chain Strategy

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Manager, Data Science for Supply Chain Strategy at Walmart, focusing on leveraging AI to improve speed, quality, and decision-making in fulfillment and transportation. The role involves building analytical frameworks, modeling, optimization, and network design to solve complex supply chain problems, translating insights into practical recommendations, and driving cross-functional alignment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build scalable analytical frameworks and modeling approaches to support long-term fulfillment and transportation strategy.
  2. Independently extract, manipulate, validate, and analyze data using SQL as part of regular work.
  3. Build models using Python or similar analytical tools to evaluate fulfillment, transportation, and network design opportunities.
  4. Apply optimization and network modeling to solve complex supply chain problems tied to speed, cost, and network efficiency.
  5. Leverage AI to improve speed, quality, and decision-making across analysis, synthesis, and communication.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Data Science
  • Analytics
  • Modeling
  • Optimization
  • Network Design
  • Supply Chain Experience

Nice to have

  • Machine Learning
  • PhD in Machine Learning
  • Computer Science
  • Fulfillment
  • Transportation
  • Parcel
  • Network Design Environments at Scale

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong supply chain experience required
  • Experience applying data science, analytics, modeling, optimization, or network design to solve complex business problems
  • Strong SQL skills, with the ability to independently extract, manipulate, and validate data.
  • Experience building models using Python or similar analytical tools.
  • Experience with optimization and network modeling.

Other signals

  • Leverage AI as a practical enabler
  • build scalable analytical frameworks and modeling approaches
  • Apply optimization and network modeling