(USA) Senior Manager, Assortment Insights
About The Position
Walmart is seeking a Senior Manager, Assortment Insights to lead the mining and development of category assortments and design strategies. This role involves analyzing data to optimize item assortments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and overseeing modular execution accuracy. The position requires identifying strategic opportunities to enhance category performance. The Senior Manager will ensure alignment with overall category strategy while maintaining high standards of integrity and operational excellence to support Walmart’s commitment to delivering value and an exceptional customer experience. The Assortment Insights team develops data-driven assortment strategies to enhance modular and planogram analytics. By analyzing purchasing behavior, clustering models, and localization insights, the team optimizes product flow and space allocation. Collaborating closely with Food Merchandising stakeholders, they ensure assortments evolve strategically to meet business goals. The team emphasizes accountability and data-informed decision-making, supporting category and assortment strategies that enable effective execution and continuous improvement across store clusters. Their work fosters informed decisions aligned with customer needs and operational objectives, driving measurable business impact.
Requirements
- Proven expertise in assortment strategy, category management, and merchandising to develop effective modular assortments and layouts.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, statistical analysis, and business analytics to identify trends and optimize category performance.
- Leading and influencing the cross-functional team to deliver strategic initiatives and category strategies.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with buyers, partners, and stakeholders while maintaining alignment with business strategies and KPIs.
- Commitment to integrity, ethical standards, and continuous improvement in a dynamic retail environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Design, Marketing, Mathematics, or related field and 3 years’ experience in retail, replenishment, supplier sales, finance, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in retail, replenishment, supplier sales, finance, or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Category Management
- Microsoft Office
- Project Management
- Retail Industry
- Supervising Associates
Responsibilities
- Identify strategic opportunities by analyzing internal and external data, market trends, and competitor insights
- Develop and inform category modular assortments and merchandising design layouts aligned with overall category strategy.
- Analyze sales patterns to determine store clusters and customize modular assortments accordingly.
- Drive execution of business plans by setting priorities, removing obstacles, and measuring performance.
- Mine insights that deliver a culturally relevant assortment for our shoppers.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus awards
- 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 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
