Manager, Travel Analytics

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

120d • $60,000 - $110,000

About The Position

Join a globally diverse team supporting Walmart's Procurement and Travel Operations. We drive value across the enterprise by leveraging data, technology, and strategic insights to optimize spend, enhance supplier relationships, and improve operational efficiency. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager of Data & Analytics to execute data-driven initiatives across global sourcing and travel programs. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of data analytics, business acumen, and data management. This role will be critical in driving data-driven decision-making across the organization by transforming data into actionable insights for business owners, ensuring the highest standards of data quality and governance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align data initiatives with business objectives and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Hospitality, or related field and 2 years' experience in travel management, customer service, or related area OR 4 years' experience in travel management, customer service, or related area.
• Extensive knowledge of data analytics, business acumen, and data management.
• Strong skills in SQL and Big Data queries (e.g., Hive, Google BigQuery).

Nice To Haves

• Experience in onboarding, mentoring, and transitioning responsibilities.
• Customer-centric mindset focused on optimizing analytics for end users.
• Strong people and communication skills to connect authentically with internal stakeholders.
• Curious, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in data visualization and analytics tools: Power BI, Tableau, Dataiku, Snowflake.
• Experience with data engineering concepts: API/webhooks, data chunking, delta loads, validation and enrichment layers.
• Sound knowledge of managing data for experiments (sampling, labeling, EDA, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain dynamic dashboards and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Dataiku) to support spend analysis, supplier RFPs, and travel program performance.
• Leverage programming languages and big data tools (SQL, Python, R, Big Query, Snowflake) to manipulate, analyze, and visualize large datasets.
• Automate reporting workflows and transition manual processes to scalable BI platforms.
• Collaborate with sourcing, finance, engineering, and global procurement teams to deliver actionable insights and support strategic decision-making.
• Apply predictive analytics and AI/ML techniques for fraud detection, rule reduction, and model monetization.
• Translate complex data into compelling business narratives for technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree