Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

5d • $117,000 - $234,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves leading a team to execute advanced analytics projects, develop data models, and collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to drive business results. The Senior Manager will be responsible for understanding business objectives, identifying challenges, and providing data-driven recommendations. The position also includes people development, project scope ownership, and managing the implementation of prototypes and algorithms.

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 business partners to understand overall goals and functional objectives, decipher key business challenges, identify tactics to anticipate and mitigate business challenges/issues, and develop potential success criteria.
• Focuses efforts on items that have maximum impact to the business.
• Contributes to business area strategic planning by providing input and actionable recommendations and solutions to senior leadership based on advanced research and analytical findings.
• Builds and leads a team to execute on business area or category objectives.
• Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge, and work performance.
• Conducts performance and career development conversations if applicable.
• Maintains team motivation and engagement.
• Mentors less experienced associates and managers.
• Owns complex projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype.
• Manages risk associated with implementation.
• Develops data models, algorithms, and approaches for complex projects within a business area or category to drive business results and value.
• Collaborates with the project team to implement modeling solutions.
• Manages the development and implementation of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms for complex projects.
• Manages the testing and validation process to monitor the solution.
• 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 unique 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 and analysis.
• Collaborates with functional leadership and cross-functional teams (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for complex projects for a business area, category, or prototype.
• Collaborates and partners with external business partners and vendors.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, providing resources, identifying performance standards, measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly, developing contingency plans, and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team-based work environment, establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations, providing recognition and rewards, coaching for success and improvement, and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance with them, and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives, consulting with business partners, managers, coworkers, or other key stakeholders, soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all, builds a high-performing team, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer member experience for all, identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer member and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives, and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
• Follows the law, our code of conduct, and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same, promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation, listens to concerns raised by associates, takes action, and encourages others to do the same, holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy.
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• 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
• Jury duty
• Voting
• 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: Manager