Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart • San Bruno, CA

17h • $117,000 - $234,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves leading and developing a team to execute advanced analytics projects, focusing on understanding business challenges, developing data models, and implementing solutions that drive business results. The Senior Manager will consult with senior leadership, manage complex projects end-to-end, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners. Key responsibilities include strategic planning input, people development, model development, proof of concept management, data collection and analysis, and driving execution of business plans. The role emphasizes a consultative approach, data-driven decision-making, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and belonging.

Requirements

• 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

• 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

• Consults with senior leadership and business partners to understand goals, identify business challenges, and develop strategies to mitigate issues.
• Contributes to business area strategic planning by providing actionable recommendations based on advanced research and analytical findings.
• Builds and leads a team to execute on business objectives, coaching team members, and providing feedback for skill enhancement.
• Owns and manages complex projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype, including risk management.
• Develops data models, algorithms, and approaches for complex projects to drive business results and value.
• Manages the development, implementation, testing, and validation of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms.
• Evaluates new data analysis techniques to support prototype development.
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners (e.g., software engineering, category management) on prototypes and algorithms.
• Leads the development and execution of advanced analytics to address business and technical problems and support data-driven decision-making.
• Makes strategic recommendations to cross-functional leadership based on analysis results.
• Collaborates across all analytics functions to develop and implement data analysis strategies and anticipate future trends.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying needs, developing plans, removing barriers, providing resources, measuring progress, and adjusting performance.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates through training, mentoring, and performance management.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Ensures business needs are met by evaluating the effectiveness of current plans and initiatives, and seeking improvements.
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all individuals, builds high-performing teams, and fosters a culture of belonging.
• Creates a focus on developing talent through feedback, coaching, and mentoring.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, working collaboratively to achieve objectives.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling company values.
• Acts as a servant leader, being humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Delivers expected business results while prioritizing the customer/member and adopting an omni-merchant mindset.
• Adopts a holistic perspective considering data analytics, customer insights, and different business areas when making plans.
• Consistently raises the bar, seeks improvement, demonstrates curiosity, and fosters an environment for learning and innovation.
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

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 expense reimbursement
• Surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Performance-based bonus awards
• Live Better U education benefit program (tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart for eligible associates)

What This Job Offers

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