Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

3d•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 in a uniform manner, and collaborating with internal and external business partners to build a consistent and accurate strategy for using data-driven insights. The position develops business strategies by recommending initiatives based on data, implementing processes based on recommended strategies, and partnering with stakeholders to execute strategies. It also involves 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. The role ensures business needs are met by evaluating the effectiveness of current plans, consulting with key stakeholders, soliciting and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and participating in community events. The Senior Manager demonstrates expertise in business analysis, advises on the development, execution, and improvement of action plans, supports alignment to meet customer and business needs, and builds commitment for perspectives and rationales. They develop and drive business opportunities by identifying program and project opportunities, determining feasibility through data analysis, assessing financial and physical performance, and driving strategies with cross-functional teams. This role drives processes across different areas of the business to ensure efficiency and compliance by establishing timelines, workflows, and requirements, overseeing training, verifying documentation, managing key processes and controls, and determining appropriate information. The Senior Manager drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating plans and priorities, removing barriers, providing resources, setting performance standards, measuring progress, adjusting performance, developing contingency plans, and demonstrating adaptability. They provide supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team-based work environment, establishing performance expectations, conducting evaluations, providing recognition, and coaching for success. The role promotes company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction, ensuring compliance, and utilizing the Open Door Policy. The Senior Manager ensures business needs are met by evaluating the effectiveness of current plans, consulting with business partners, soliciting and applying suggestions for improvement, and participating in community outreach events. They demonstrate and encourage respect for all, build high-performing teams, seek and embrace differences, create a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected, and drive a positive associate and customer experience. The role creates a discipline around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, promotes an environment where everyone can bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners, and recognizes contributions. The Senior Manager builds strong relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively, and communicates attentively to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment. They maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, model Walmart values, and lead by example to foster a culture of belonging and making a positive impact. The role follows the law, code of conduct, and company policies, promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, listens to concerns, takes action, and holds self and others accountable. They act as an altruistic servant leader, are humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent. The Senior Manager delivers expected business results while putting the customer-member first, applying an omnimerchant mindset, and acting with an 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 the team's strategy. The role consistently raises the bar, seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, fosters an environment that supports learning and innovation, learns from mistakes and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience. They 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
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
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
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
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
Demonstrating adaptability
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
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
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
Participating in and supporting community outreach events
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
Regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners
Works collaboratively and crossfunctionally to achieve objectives
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
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
Exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
Seeks and implements continuous improvements
Encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

Benefits

competitive pay
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
short-term and 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 is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.