Senior Director, Advanced Analytics

Walmart • Hoboken, NJ

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes. Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies, articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design, innovation, and advocacy across channels. Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype, ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities. Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects, guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies. Oversee production‑ready analytics solutions, including complex algorithms and proofs of concept, and present them to cross‑functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Merchandising, Category Management) to drive adoption and buy‑in. Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing) to advance prototype development and scalable solutions. Guide data collection and analysis strategies, ensuring analytical rigor, appropriate team structures, and iteration models to solve complex business challenges. Collaborate across analytics and business leadership, aligning data and insight strategies to business priorities and category performance. Build and sustain strong cross‑functional partnerships across the organization (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising), ensuring alignment, shared ownership, and implementation of recommendations. Develop and coach analytics leaders and associates, providing mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities while identifying and building emerging capabilities needed for future success. Set strategic direction for the function by analyzing business objectives, customer needs, costs, forecasts, and operational performance, while driving continuous improvement and measurable outcomes. Attract, develop, and retain top analytics talent, leading workforce planning, succession strategies, and capability development to maintain a highly skilled and engaged organization. Model and uphold Walmart’s values, embedding integrity, ethics, and the Open Door culture into all programs, decisions, and leadership practices. Leverage internal and external partnerships to advance business goals, representing the organization in key stakeholder engagements and industry or community initiatives.

Requirements

• Executive‑level expertise in advanced analytics, data science, and modeling strategy within complex or matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, translating data and insights into clear, actionable business strategies.
• Strong experience leading large‑scale analytics programs, including model development, algorithm implementation, and production deployment.
• Deep knowledge of modern analytics techniques and tools, including machine learning and emerging data science methodologies.
• Proven people leadership capability, with experience developing senior leaders, managers, and high‑performing analytics teams.
• Exceptional cross‑functional partnership skills, with the ability to drive alignment and buy‑in across diverse business stakeholders.
• A strong strategic and customer‑centric mindset, balancing innovation, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 8 years' experience in data analytics or related field.
• 6 years' supervisory experience OR experience leading cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Cluster analysis techniques, simulation, inferential statistics, neural networks, or data mining techniques
• Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes.
• Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies, articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design, innovation, and advocacy across channels.
• Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype, ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities.
• Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects, guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies.
• Oversee production‑ready analytics solutions, including complex algorithms and proofs of concept, and present them to cross‑functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Merchandising, Category Management) to drive adoption and buy‑in.
• Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing) to advance prototype development and scalable solutions.
• Guide data collection and analysis strategies, ensuring analytical rigor, appropriate team structures, and iteration models to solve complex business challenges.
• Collaborate across analytics and business leadership, aligning data and insight strategies to business priorities and category performance.
• Build and sustain strong cross‑functional partnerships across the organization (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising), ensuring alignment, shared ownership, and implementation of recommendations.
• Develop and coach analytics leaders and associates, providing mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities while identifying and building emerging capabilities needed for future success.
• Set strategic direction for the function by analyzing business objectives, customer needs, costs, forecasts, and operational performance, while driving continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Attract, develop, and retain top analytics talent, leading workforce planning, succession strategies, and capability development to maintain a highly skilled and engaged organization.
• Model and uphold Walmart’s values, embedding integrity, ethics, and the Open Door culture into all programs, decisions, and leadership practices.
• Leverage internal and external partnerships to advance business goals, representing the organization in key stakeholder engagements and industry or community initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

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