(USA) Senior Manager, Data Analytics

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Manager, Data Analytics (Patient Safety) within Health & Wellness, you will lead strategic measurement and decision science to improve patient safety outcomes at scale without direct people management. You will partner across Patient Safety, Clinical Operations, Quality, Pharmacy/Clinical programs, Product/Tech, Data Engineering, and Compliance to define trusted metrics, evaluate interventions, and translate complex risk signals into practical decision tools and executive-ready narratives.

Requirements

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 3: 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• 1 year's supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce)
• Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)
• Supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• Own patient safety measurement strategy and KPI governance
• Define and maintain patient safety “North Star” outcomes and supporting metric hierarchies (e.g., harm reduction, near-miss reporting, event severity, time-to-mitigation, reliability measures).
• Establish metric definitions, data lineage, and data quality checks across clinical and operational systems.
• Partner with BI and data engineering to deliver scalable dashboards and self-serve reporting.
• Translate ambiguous safety concerns into decision-ready analytics
• Convert broad questions (e.g., “events are rising—what changed?”) into hypotheses, success metrics, and analysis plans.
• Align stakeholders on what decisions/actions will change based on results (policy, workflow, training, tooling, staffing, controls).
• Design and evaluate interventions using rigorous methods
• Architect and assess experiments and quasi-experiments for safety initiatives (workflow changes, clinical decision support, training, audit/feedback, escalation pathways).
• Apply causal inference and statistical methods (regression, difference-in-differences, matching/propensity, Bayesian approaches, time-series, simulation/Monte Carlo) to quantify impact and uncertainty.
• Ensure appropriate controls for bias, confounding, seasonality, and operational variability.
• Translate risk and safety signals into business tools and playbooks
• Convert model outputs and risk indicators into practical tools (guardrails, thresholds, triage frameworks, escalation triggers, operating playbooks).
• Build scenario and sensitivity frameworks to support decisions under uncertainty.
• Deliver executive-ready narratives and influence outcomes
• Synthesize complex findings into clear, intuitive stories for clinical and non-clinical leaders.
• Drive alignment across cross-functional partners and influence roadmaps, operating cadences, and adoption of safety interventions.
• Establish best practices for reproducible, compliant analytics
• Set standards for documentation, code quality, peer review, and measurement hygiene.
• Partner with governance/compliance teams to ensure appropriate handling of sensitive health data.

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
• 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
• Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior