(usa) Senior Manager, Delivery Search, Arrival & Matching (last Mile Delivery)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Manager, Delivery Search, Arrival & Matching (Last Mile Delivery) at Walmart. This role acts as the business product owner for the Last-Mile Delivery platform, focusing on driver search, arrival staggering, and trip matching. The individual will shape the product roadmap, analyze model outputs, and make strategic recommendations. The role requires fluency with AI tools, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the analytical and strategic layer for components of driver search, arrival staggering, and trip matching - serving as the business voice alongside technical partners
  2. Lead business case development for roadmap investments - quantifying opportunity, sizing tradeoffs, and establishing success criteria
  3. Apply AI tools as a core part of daily workflow - accelerating analysis, synthesizing signals, and scaling analytical output across the org.
  4. Translate complex model outputs, experiment results, and platform telemetry into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
  5. Lead cross-functional workstreams - align engineers, scientists, and operators around a shared plan and hold the work accountable to outcomes

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in analytics, strategy, product or business operations in a technology-driven organization.
  • Demonstrated fluency with AI tools
  • Strong quantitative skills and statistical understanding: writes SQL, builds analytical models, and derives original insights from raw data.
  • Clear, structured communicator
  • Track record of making and defending business recommendations under ambiguity.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams or workstreams and drive outcomes through influence and clarity of direction.
  • Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field OR Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field OR 7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Nice to have

  • Data science
  • machine learning
  • optimization models
  • PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics
  • Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)
  • Supervisory experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated fluency with AI tools - you use them daily, you know their limits, and you build workflows around them.
  • Track record of making and defending business recommendations under ambiguity.

Other signals

  • Owns product roadmap
  • Works with data science and engineering
  • Makes recommendations to senior leadership
  • Uses AI tools daily