Senior Manager, Insights Consulting - Food & Consumables (Walmart Brands)
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Insights Consulting leads complex research and analytics projects supporting Walmart’s Food & Consumables private brands organization. The role develops research methodologies and delivers clear, impactful analysis to inform strategic decisions across multiple brands, including food, personal care, beauty, baby, and pet. It partners with cross-functional teams and external vendors to address business challenges and supports brand development, renovation, and growth. As part of Walmart’s Customer Insights & Strategy team, the position integrates customer perspectives into strategy, assortment, category, brand, and experience decisions. The Senior Manager uses qualitative and quantitative research, syndicated and panel data, advanced analytics, visualization tools, and AI-enabled approaches to uncover customer needs and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The role advises cross-functional teams, builds executive and vendor partnerships, manages research priorities, and presents compelling insights to senior leaders, including up to the SVP level. It also promotes collaboration, continuous improvement, integrity, and high standards of performance to support customer and business outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong background in quantitative and qualitative primary research, with expertise across research methodologies, databases, and data visualization tools.
- Strong aptitude for applying insights from syndicated data and panel data tools to business strategies.
- Proven ability to lead complex consulting projects; retail and/or branding experience is identified as ideal.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, storytelling, and organizational skills.
- Experience working cross-functionally, influencing senior leadership, and managing multiple projects with ownership.
- Passion for translating data into actionable, customer-focused insights.
- Experience managing third-party research vendors and using classic and innovative or AI methodologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 3 years of experience in an analytics-related field; or a master’s degree in one of those fields or a related field and 1 year of analytics-related experience; or 5 years of experience in an analytics or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with brand-building or innovation-focused insight processes.
- Data science, machine learning, or optimization models.
- Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or Econometrics.
- Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R.
- Experience using open-source frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or Torch.
- Master of Business Administration.
Responsibilities
- Lead qualitative and quantitative research supporting the development, renovation, and growth of Food & Consumables private brands.
- Use research methodologies including focus groups, ethnographies, concept testing, shelf testing, name testing, and post-launch testing to identify customer needs, shopping behaviors, and industry trends.
- Leverage syndicated data, advanced analytics, visualization tools, and AI-enabled approaches to generate actionable insights.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to cross-functional teams, supporting customer-centric business decisions and best practices.
- Build executive and vendor partnerships and manage research priorities.
- Translate complex findings into compelling stories that influence leadership and support omnichannel brand growth across Walmart’s retail ecosystem.
- Manage complex consulting projects and multiple projects simultaneously, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- 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.
- Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U), including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
- Performance-based bonus awards; additional compensation for certain positions may include stock.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
