Manager, Business Analysis And Insights - Walmart Connect

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

3d • $70,000 - $130,000

About The Position

Join the Walmart Connect Sales Strategy and Enablement Team as a dynamic leader passionate about digital advertising and e-commerce. This role involves proactive stakeholder management, insights generation, and support for the fastest-growing segment in the Ads Business. The Walmart Connect Sales Strategy and Enablement Team is seeking someone who is passionate about retail media, digital advertising, and e-commerce. The ideal candidate would have strong communication skills and the ability to build essential relationships across Sales, Operations, and other cross-functional partners. We are searching for a motivated self-starter with exceptional analytical skills dedicated to developing insights, reporting, and strategy recommendations to execute key against aggressive goals across a scaled Sales and Retail organization. In this role, you will be asked unique questions and investigate deep intel to provide actionable learnings to multiple layers of the organization. The ideal candidate will excel in analytical development, communication, modeling, strategy, process, and systems. Analysts should be comfortable with ambiguity, exhibit strong attention to detail, and be motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment. In addition, this role requires the initiative to complete complex tasks and projects quickly and independently, respond promptly to situations requiring rapid turnaround, switch priorities on short notice, and take effective action.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of work experience in a role requiring analytical skills, such as business analyst, data analyst, or statistical analyst.
• Understanding of sales processes and tools, including Salesforce CRM systems, sales quota, account planning, territory assignment, performance management, forecasting and territory assignment, and analytics, to support a world-class Sales Team.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to shift styles based on the setting and audience across all mediums including emails, presentations, and meetings.
• Proficiency in writing complex and efficient SQL queries to extract data.
• Ability to work with internal and external customers to gather and document business requirements and user stories, propose solutions, evaluate feasibility, conduct technology assessments, ROI analysis, and assess complexity for various potential processes and system solutions.
• Ability to partner with core internal technical teams (CRM, Data Warehouse, etc.) to design and implement sales operations solutions that address customer needs.
• The ability to communicate findings and make recommendations for improvement clearly and effectively.
• The capability to model and simulate improvements to existing business processes, evaluate 'what-if' scenarios, and conduct dry runs to identify and resolve gaps before implementation.
• Capacity to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize responsibilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, even when faced with ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or related field and 2 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 4 years' experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree (MBA, Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field).
• Advanced knowledge of data mining, SQL, data warehousing, statistical analysis tools, Data Science, Modeling Skills, Excel, and data visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI.
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent organizational skills, including prioritization, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Exposure to and understanding of digital advertising.
• Experience working closely with a distributed sales team.
• Project Management Certification, Six Sigma certification, Statistical Programming Language
• Master's degree in Business, Analytics, or related field

Responsibilities

• Business Measurement & Reporting: Collaborate with leaders in Emerging Sales and other inter-dependent teams to design, develop, and propose solutions for reporting and measurement needs.
• Support the process of defining KPIs, collecting data, ensuring data quality for appropriate measurement.
• Own and develop scaled reporting solutions for Sales teams.
• Manage reporting collateral, including dashboards, to facilitate teams' understanding of business health and goal achievement levels.
• Strategy Planning: Address ambiguous strategic questions facing the business and collaborate with leaders across Walmart Connect to build business cases for new business initiatives.
• Drive the execution of initiatives across partners.
• Develop a profound understanding of our overall business and how our different ads products, media channels, and sales investments align with our broader strategy.
• Report and maintain various input and output metrics used to evaluate our progress, which serve as the backbone of our reporting and strategic planning processes.
• Use data extraction and analytical skills to support ad hoc analyses, results, performance, and drive planning and process discussions.

Benefits

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees