Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart•San Bruno, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Marketplace Fulfillment is looking for a Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics to work as a strategic partner across the organization. This role will work across forecasting, inventory management and allocation, to provide insights through the WFS org as we expand the business. The right candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a startup environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You will be providing insights to WFS leadership and influencing strategic decision making. Maturity, analytical skills, strong influence, negotiation skills, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 2 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 4 years' experience in data analytics or related field.

Nice To Haves

Adept at dealing with ambiguity and making independent decisions about what data and approach is best for the task at hand
Excel in communicating with individuals and groups at all levels of an organization
Bring a high degree of originality and creativity when developing solutions to improve existing business processes within the forecasting, inventory management, supply chain, utilizing methods such as statistical analysis, regression modeling, and optimization
Excellent communication skills, experience writing strategic documents and decks
5+ years of experience using SQL and Python
Strategic / Tactical mindset: Ability to make decisions based on data/ insights in real time.
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

Manage and execute analytical initiatives from start to finish, including data collection and manipulation, analysis and modeling, and the communication of insights and recommendations.
Build scalable and complex supply chain models and processes to develop forecasting, inventory management & supply chain network strategies with the goal of growing sellers, SKUs, inventory health for WFS, and delivering an excellent customer experience while achieving operating cost and service targets.
Develop strong relationships & partner with functional areas like product, data science, engineering, business operations, supply chain, category managers to drive initiatives.
Monitor progress for the annual operation plans and pivot when actuals do align with plans.
Identify areas of opportunity and influence execution of results via cross- functional participation to enable quick wins and continuous improvement.
Obtain alignment from relevant business partners and management support for projects and lead discussions to drive change.
Effectively organize, assemble, and use all available resources when given a project to ensure success.
Build and lead a team to execute on business area or category objectives. Coach and mentor less experienced associates and managers. Provide supervision and development opportunities for associates by training; mentoring; assigning duties; and establishing performance expectations.
Own complex projects end-to-end for a business area. Develop data models (algorithms, approaches) for complex projects within a business area or category to drive business results and value. Collaborate with project team to implement modeling solutions.
Lead the development and execution of advanced analytics to address unique business and technical problems and support data-driven decision making. Make strategic recommendations to cross-functional leadership based on analysis results.