(USA) Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights
About The Position
The Senior Manager of New Brand Discovery & Acquisition sits at the front edge of what’s next for Walmart, identifying the brands, founders, and ideas that could shape tomorrow’s basket. This role owns the new-to-Walmart pipeline, turning merchant priorities into a proactive hunt for high-potential brands across categories. They build relationships with founders, investors, and accelerators, scout the places where new brands are breaking, and turn early signals into sharp recommendations for merchants and leadership. Part strategist, part scout, part relationship-builder, this person helps Walmart find great brands earlier and gives them a clear path from discovery to scale. The Discovery & Emerging Brands team within Supplier Excellence identifies promising brands early to support Walmart’s growth. Collaborating with Merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and other teams, they transform market signals into actionable insights. The team focuses on data-driven analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic communication to enable faster, informed decisions. Their work strengthens Walmart’s assortment and supplier partnerships by delivering impactful business strategies. Committed to providing merchants with timely information, the team drives scalable business success through effective collaboration and insightful analysis.
Requirements
- A commercial builder with strong instincts for brand, category, and customer potential.
- Ability to spot what is next, understand why it matters, and build the case for Walmart to move early.
- Comfortable evaluating a founder’s pitch, working a trade show floor, digging into data, and turning messy signals into sharp recommendations.
- Balance instinct with evidence and understand customer demand, retail economics, and operational readiness.
- Ability to build trust with founders, investors, merchants, and cross-functional partners while keeping a high-volume pipeline moving.
- Strong project management, storytelling, prioritization, and zero-to-one building skills are essential.
- 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
- Build the Emerging Brands intelligence engine – Build the systems, tools, and signals that help Walmart spot the next breakout brands earlier and act faster.
- Build the brand evaluation system across growth, demand, differentiation, readiness, and Walmart opportunity.
- Connect the signals across sales, search, social, Marketplace, 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 bets.
- Turn data into action with sharp business cases, recommendations, and leadership storytelling.
- Build for scale by improving the tools, reporting, and automation behind the work.
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 leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption expense reimbursement
- 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
