Walmart Category Advisor Advanced Analytics and Capabilities Manager

The Magnum Ice Cream Company • Rogers, AR

22h • $103,000 - $154,400

About The Position

As the Process Optimization & Data Analytics Lead – Magnum Ice Cream, you will play a strategic and hands-on role driving data transformation, advanced analytics, and process excellence for Walmart, one of our most critical customers. This position ensures that our technology ecosystem and data capabilities enable business growth, operational resilience, and continuous innovation, all aligned with global IT and Ice Cream strategies. You will act as the bridge between business and technology, providing strategic direction and governance while rolling up your sleeves to pull, crunch, and analyze massive datasets that unlock insights and efficiencies. Your mission: turn data into indulgence by ensuring our systems, processes, and tools evolve in line with long-term business objectives. This role requires strong collaboration with Walmart teams and internal stakeholders to drive modular excellence, capability development, and technological innovation, while maintaining Magnum’s premium standards.

Lead the regional IT strategy for Ice Cream North America, ensuring alignment with the global digital roadmap and business transformation priorities. Drive governance, standards, and operational excellence across the technology ecosystem, ensuring compliance, reliability, and scalability. Partner with business and global IT teams to identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth enabled by digital technologies. Manage the regional portfolio of initiatives, ensuring value delivery, prioritization, and alignment with business outcomes. Foster continuous improvement of digital capabilities supporting end-to-end value chains, from demand planning and manufacturing to customer experience and commercial execution. Oversee performance, security, and compliance of enterprise systems and platforms, ensuring adherence to IT policies, risk controls, and business continuity principles. Strengthening relationships with global platform owners, vendors, and strategic partners to secure technology enablement and delivery excellence. Build regional capabilities through coaching, knowledge sharing, and cross-country collaboration, ensuring teams are future-ready and aligned with emerging technology trends. Monitor key performance indicators, budgets, and service levels, ensuring effective execution of the IT operating model. Provide clear, executive-level communication and reporting to senior leadership, translating technical insights into strategic business value.

Strong understanding of enterprise systems, digital platforms, data ecosystems, and customer engagement technologies. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-country teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders. Proficient in English and Spanish, and able to communicate in LEADERSHIP: Purpose & Service: Leads with clarity of purpose, ensuring that technology enables growth, sustainability, and positive impact for people and business. Passion for High Performance: Delivers results through focus, accountability, and data-driven insights. Personal Mastery: Demonstrates resilience, continuous learning, and adaptability to change. Consumer Love: Understands that technology and data ultimately serve to elevate consumer and customer experience. Agility: Anticipates trends, embraces innovation, and leads digital evolution across markets. Inclusiveness: Fosters collaboration across diverse teams and geographies to build regional synergy and shared success

Requirements

• Expertise in IT governance, risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and decision-making skills.
• High capability to translate business needs into technology-driven value creation.
• Proficiency in English; Spanish and Portuguese are an advantage.
• Strategic Leadership & Vision
• IT Governance & Risk Management
• Stakeholder & Vendor Management
• Digital Transformation & Change Enablement
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Collaboration & Influencing Skills
• Agility & Continuous Improvement
• Executive Communication
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems, digital platforms, data ecosystems, and customer engagement technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-country teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proficient in English and Spanish, and able to communicate in LEADERSHIP: Purpose & Service: Leads with clarity of purpose, ensuring that technology enables growth, sustainability, and positive impact for people and business. Passion for High Performance: Delivers results through focus, accountability, and data-driven insights. Personal Mastery: Demonstrates resilience, continuous learning, and adaptability to change. Consumer Love: Understands that technology and data ultimately serve to elevate consumer and customer experience. Agility: Anticipates trends, embraces innovation, and leads digital evolution across markets. Inclusiveness: Fosters collaboration across diverse teams and geographies to build regional synergy and shared success

Responsibilities

• Lead the regional IT strategy for Ice Cream North America, ensuring alignment with the global digital roadmap and business transformation priorities.
• Drive governance, standards, and operational excellence across the technology ecosystem, ensuring compliance, reliability, and scalability.
• Partner with business and global IT teams to identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth enabled by digital technologies.
• Manage the regional portfolio of initiatives, ensuring value delivery, prioritization, and alignment with business outcomes.
• Foster continuous improvement of digital capabilities supporting end-to-end value chains, from demand planning and manufacturing to customer experience and commercial execution.
• Oversee performance, security, and compliance of enterprise systems and platforms, ensuring adherence to IT policies, risk controls, and business continuity principles.
• Strengthening relationships with global platform owners, vendors, and strategic partners to secure technology enablement and delivery excellence.
• Build regional capabilities through coaching, knowledge sharing, and cross-country collaboration, ensuring teams are future-ready and aligned with emerging technology trends.
• Monitor key performance indicators, budgets, and service levels, ensuring effective execution of the IT operating model.
• Provide clear, executive-level communication and reporting to senior leadership, translating technical insights into strategic business value.

Benefits

• TMICC employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed