Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights - Discovery & Emerging Brand

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

3d•$80,000 - $155,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager of New Brand Discovery & Acquisition owns Walmart’s new-to-Walmart brand pipeline, identifying promising brands, founders, and ideas and helping move them from discovery toward scale. The role translates merchant priorities into proactive brand scouting, builds relationships with founders, investors, and accelerators, and turns early market signals into recommendations for merchants and leadership. Within the Discovery & Emerging Brands team in Supplier Excellence, the position works with Merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and other teams to transform market signals into actionable insights that support Walmart’s growth, assortment, and supplier partnerships. The role builds systems and tools to identify emerging brands, evaluates opportunities, and delivers timely, data-driven recommendations that enable informed decisions. The position is suited to a commercially minded builder who can assess brand, category, customer, and retail potential; balance instinct with evidence; and keep a high-volume pipeline moving. It requires project management, prioritization, storytelling, relationship-building, and the ability to build new processes and capabilities from the ground up.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field and 4 years of experience in data analytics, project management, business, or a related area; alternatively, 6 years of experience in those areas.
2 years of experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.
Ability to evaluate brand, category, and customer potential and understand retail economics and operational readiness.
Strong project management, storytelling, prioritization, relationship-building, and zero-to-one building skills.
Ability to balance commercial instincts with evidence, assess founder pitches, work trade show floors, analyze data, and turn complex signals into recommendations.
Ability to maintain a high-volume pipeline and build trust with founders, investors, merchants, and cross-functional partners.

Nice To Haves

Experience with a statistical programming language.
Experience supervising associates.
Experience working on cross-functional teams or projects.
Master of Business Administration.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

Responsibilities

Build the Emerging Brands intelligence engine, including systems, tools, and signals to identify breakout brands earlier and help Walmart act faster.
Develop a brand evaluation system covering growth, demand, differentiation, readiness, and Walmart opportunity.
Connect signals across sales, search, social, Marketplace, direct-to-consumer (DTC), competitive retail, investors, and customer insights.
Work cross-functionally with merchants, Supplier Excellence, Marketplace, WMC, data, and insights teams to identify whitespace and priority opportunities.
Translate data into business cases, recommendations, and leadership communications.
Improve tools, reporting, and automation to scale the work.
Build relationships with founders, investors, accelerators, merchants, and cross-functional partners.
Scout emerging brands and convert early market signals into recommendations for merchants and leadership.

Benefits

Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase plan and possible stock compensation.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave; parental leave; family care leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; and voting leave.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Company discounts.
Military Leave Pay.
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.