Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics - Payments Strategy & Analytics - Marketplace

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role will be a key member within Marketplace Partner Payments, owning payment strategies, Faster Payout program, and settlement experience end-to-end across U.S. and International Marketplaces. This role drives GMV growth and seller experience by improving seller cash flow, enabling monetization opportunities, and delivering industry-competitive payout experience while maintaining disciplined financial risk controls. This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to collaborate effectively with different cross-functional teams across Walmart Marketplace. The Senior Manager will lead the Faster Payout program across U.S. and International Marketplaces, driving GMV growth by improving seller cash flow, experience, and monetization opportunities. They will also support global initiatives to achieve Faster Payout parity with the U.S. Marketplace, balancing global scalability with local market requirements. The role involves owning initiatives to optimize the end-to-end seller payments journey by identifying pain points, friction areas, and improvement opportunities, and developing strategies focused on enhancing ease of use, efficiency, and transparency in the seller payment experience. Furthermore, the Senior Manager will drive seller advocacy, collaborate with Product & Tech partners to build foundational payment related seller tools and automation, and partner with Credit Risk and Billing to define and operationalize laddering frameworks across Seller Services, Payment Services, and Billing programs, reducing financial exposure while managing end-to-end reconciliation. They will leverage advanced analytics to design payment strategies, seller segmentation, and risk-based controls across payouts and settlements, and identify and execute initiatives to reduce other seller cost components to manage overall losses. This position also serves as a strategic cross-functional leader, partnering with Product, Tech, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Marketplace teams to align execution and influence roadmaps, and defining success metrics and measurement frameworks to track GMV impact, adoption, loss reduction, and seller experience outcomes.

Requirements

Master’s in Business, Statistics, Computer Science, or similar field required.
At least 5 years industry experience preferably in Payments, eCommerce, Risk, Financial Services, or similar space.
Ability to lead cross functional teams and prior experience working with Product and Technology teams; proven ability to influence internal / external partners and provide clear actionable insights.
Advanced understanding of SQL and working with large datasets.
Experience with one or more data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker etc.
High proficiency with Excel based data analysis.
Deep analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative, and a track record of applying these to inform effective and successful business decisions.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 4 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of e-commerce marketplace platforms, seller payments and financial ecosystems is a plus.
Understanding of risk management and fraud prevention in payments is an advantage.
Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis.
Statistical programming languages (for example, SAS, R).
Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Responsibilities

Lead the Faster Payout program across U.S. and International Marketplaces, driving GMV growth by improving seller cash flow, experience, and monetization opportunities.
Support global initiatives to achieve Faster Payout parity with the U.S. Marketplace, balancing global scalability with local market requirements.
Own initiatives to optimize the end-to-end seller payments journey by identifying pain points, friction areas, and improvement opportunities.
Develop strategies focused on enhancing ease of use, efficiency, and transparency in the seller payment experience.
Drive seller advocacy to enhance seller payment experience, amplifying seller voices and addressing concerns with impactful and measurable results.
Collaborate with Product & Tech partners to focus on building foundational payment related seller tools and automation to improve operational efficiency.
Partner with Credit Risk and Billing to define and operationalize laddering frameworks across Seller Services, Payment Services, and Billing programs, reducing financial exposure while managing end-to-end reconciliation.
Leverage advanced analytics to design payment strategies, seller segmentation, and risk-based controls across payouts and settlements.
Identify and execute initiatives to reduce other seller cost components to manage overall losses.
Serve as a strategic cross-functional leader, partnering with Product, Tech, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Marketplace teams to align execution and influence roadmaps.
Define success metrics and measurement frameworks to track GMV impact, adoption, loss reduction, and seller experience outcomes.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Health benefits (medical, vision and dental coverage)
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
Paid time off (PTO, including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term and 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 in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities)
Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart for Live Better U programs