(USA) Director, Data Analytics
About The Position
Walmart Connect (WMC) is a key driver of Walmart’s overall growth strategy. The Director, Salesforce & Commercial Systems Strategy is a critical leadership role responsible for governing our end-to-end usage of Salesforce and ensuring the platform drives maximum value across our Sales and Operations teams. As WMC migrates to a new Salesforce instance, this leader will serve as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, driving workflow optimization, system consolidation, and seamless data integration. Walmart Connect’s Platform and Tools is responsible for building the analytics, tooling, and data capabilities that power WMC’s commercial engine.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data strategy development and execution aligned with business objectives.
- Proven expertise in data quality management, including establishing metrics and operational procedures.
- Strong knowledge of data visualization tools and techniques to communicate complex insights effectively.
- Ability to analyze business problems using advanced analytics and big data methodologies.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring teams and driving cross-functional collaboration.
- Proficiency in data source identification, database technologies, and data governance principles.
- Skilled in translating business requirements into actionable data initiatives that deliver measurable impact.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field and 4 years' experience in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field OR 7 years' experience in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics
- Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce)
- Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)
- Supervisory experience
- Masters: Business Administration
Responsibilities
- Develop the end-to-end business strategy for our new Salesforce instance, working with executive leaders.
- Define the key metrics and performance indicators to measure the success and ROI of the migration and ongoing usage.
- Develop strategies for Salesforce to work in sync with our existing software and data architecture.
- Establish and implement a performance matrix to evaluate the operational effectiveness of the platform, predicting trends and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Partner deeply with leaders across Sales, Account Management, and Operations to map all commercial workflows, identify pain points, and re-engineer processes to leverage native Salesforce capabilities.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
