(USA) Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Advanced Analytics position involves owning workstreams and individual projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype. This role manages risks associated with implementation, coordinates job-related activities, and develops relationships with key stakeholders to meet business needs. The manager works with leadership and business partners to understand goals, develop hypotheses, and create tactical research plans, providing guidance and actionable recommendations. Key responsibilities include developing data models, managing the implementation of prototypes and complex algorithms, and overseeing testing and validation. The role also involves applying advanced analytics to solve complex business problems, making strategic recommendations, and managing data analysis strategies. Collaboration with functional leadership and cross-functional teams is essential for developing consultative solutions. Additionally, the manager is responsible for building and leading a team, coaching members, providing feedback, conducting performance conversations, and mentoring less experienced associates, all while ensuring compliance with company policies and promoting diversity awareness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Information Technology, or related field plus 2 years of data analytics experience or related experience; OR 4 years of data analytics experience or related experience.
• Analytical, statistical and ad-hoc reporting experience in large scale enterprise.
• Working with multiple databases like Oracle, SQL server, etc.
• Writing optimized SQL queries, troubleshooting for gap analysis and creating reliable and consistent tables, views for end users.
• Gathering and cleaning, using programming languages like Python, R/SAS, or SQL to manipulate and analyze data.
• Creating visualizations using BI tools like Tableau, Power BI or Looker.
• Using MS office tools, Advanced Excel, VBA, confluence, JIRA and Visio.
• Working with GitHub environment, API development, testing and deployment with CI/CD pipelines.
• ETL tools like Tableau prep, Alteryx, Dataiku or any other platform.
• Working with big data technologies or cloud platforms like GCP and perform admin task by managing user access.
• Creating data models, performing regression, time series, forecasting and predictive analytics.
• Working with cross functional teams, business users and stakeholders, providing actionable insights and recommending business solutions.

Responsibilities

• Owns workstreams and individual projects end-to-end for a business area, category or prototype.
• Manages risk associated with implementation.
• Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.
• Works with leadership/business partners (e.g., Directors) to discuss and understand goals/functional objectives and key business challenges to develop hypotheses around current and future business issues; identifies functional analytics and research objectives and develops tactical research plans.
• Provides guidance to Directors and advises on next steps based on insights objectives and research.
• Presents actionable recommendations to Directors to inform strategic and tactical functional initiatives.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with leadership and other key stakeholders.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.
• Develops data models (algorithms, approaches) for workstreams and individual projects within a business area or category to drive business results and value.
• Collaborates with project team to implement modeling solutions.
• Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.
• Manages the development and implementation of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms for workstreams and individual projects.
• Manages the testing and validation process to monitor the solution.
• Collaborates with Advanced Analytics Experts to develop new data analysis techniques.
• Addresses complex business problems by applying advanced analytics to drive data-driven decision making.
• Makes strategic recommendations to team based on data analysis.
• Manages and executes data analysis strategy, providing guidance to less experienced team members.
• Collaborates with functional leadership and cross-functional teams (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for workstreams and individual projects for a business area, category or prototype.
• Interfaces with external business partners and vendors.
• Builds and leads a team to execute on business area or category objectives.
• Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge and work performance.
• Conducts performance and career development conversations, if applicable.
• Maintains team motivation and engagement.
• Mentors less experienced associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager