Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

3d • $80,000 - $155,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role provides data-driven analysis and insights to support business strategies by evaluating ongoing analytical needs, reporting data-based insights uniformly, and collaborating with internal and external partners to build a consistent and accurate strategy for using data-driven insights. The position involves developing business strategies by recommending initiatives based on data, implementing processes, partnering with stakeholders for execution, and reassessing strategies based on feedback and results. It also focuses on building relationships with stakeholders to support strategic growth plans and identifying past, current, and future business plans and objectives. The role ensures business needs are met by evaluating the effectiveness of current plans, consulting with stakeholders, and implementing suggestions for improvement. It also involves participating in and supporting community events. The Senior Manager demonstrates up-to-date expertise in business analysis, advising on the development, execution, and improvement of action plans, providing expert advice, and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs. They also drive business opportunities by identifying program and project feasibility through data analysis, assessing performance, and driving strategies with cross-functional teams. This role oversees processes across different business areas for efficiency and compliance, establishing timelines, workflows, and requirements, managing documentation, and verifying results. The Senior Manager drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying needs, developing plans, removing barriers, providing resources, measuring progress, and developing contingency plans. Additionally, this role provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team environment, setting expectations, conducting performance evaluations, and promoting a sense of belonging. The role also promotes company policies, values, and ethics, ensuring compliance and supporting the Open Door Policy. The Senior Manager acts with integrity, following laws, code of conduct, and company policies, promoting an environment where concerns can be shared, and holding themselves and others accountable. They serve customers and members by delivering expected business results, putting the customer first, and adopting an omnimerchant and Every Day Low Cost mindset. They adopt a holistic perspective considering data analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping strategy. The Senior Manager strives for excellence by consistently raising the bar, seeking improvement, demonstrating curiosity, fostering learning, and exhibiting resilience. They also seek and implement continuous improvements and encourage the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or related field and 4 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area.
• 2 years’ experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.

Nice To Haves

• Statistical Programming Language
• Supervising Associates
• Working on cross-functional teams or projects
• Masters: Business Administration
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
• Six Sigma Black Belt - Certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt - Certification

Responsibilities

• Provides datadriven analysis and insights to help support business strategies by evaluating ongoing analytical needs reporting databased insights in a uniform manner reporting on business strategies collaborating with internal and external business partners to build a consistent and accurate strategy for using datadriven insights
• Develops business strategies by recommending initiatives based on data implementing processes based on recommended strategies partnering with internal and external stakeholders to execute strategies reassessing strategies to adjust to feedback and meet results building relationships with stakeholders to support strategic growth plans and creating summaries identifying past current and future business plans and objectives
• Ensures business needs are met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans programs and initiatives consulting with key stakeholders soliciting evaluating and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and costeffectiveness and participating in and supporting community events
• Demonstrates uptodate expertise in business analysis and advises on the development execution and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs and building commitment for perspectives and rationales
• Develops and drives business opportunities by identifying program and project opportunities determining program and project feasibility through data analysis assessing the financial and physical performance of each program and driving strategies with crossfunctional teams
• Drives processes across different areas of the business to ensure efficiency and compliance by establishing timelines workflows and requirements overseeing training verifying necessary documentation for reviewing results managing functioning of key process and controls and determining appropriate information
• 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 teambased 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 costeffectiveness and participating in and supporting community outreach events
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a highperforming team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember 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 customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and crossfunctionally 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 Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg 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 nonretaliation 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 selfaware honest and transparent
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams 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 risktaking 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 insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 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
• 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: Senior