(USA) Senior Manager, Insights Consulting - Food Insights

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

132d

About The Position

As Sr Manager of Food Insights at Walmart, you will leverage customer understanding and advanced analytics to inform Walmart's food, grocery, and consumables strategies and campaigns. You'll drive both long-term vision and short-term initiatives, ensuring actionable insights at critical moments for our customers and business.

Requirements

• Strong background in primary research or retail analytics, with experience in research methods, databases, and data visualization tools, ideally within food, grocery, or consumables.
• Proven ability to lead complex consulting projects, preferably in food retail or grocery contexts.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and organizational skills.
• Experience working cross-functionally, influencing senior leadership, and managing multiple projects.
• Passion for translating data into actionable, customer-focused food insights.
• Experience managing third-party research vendors.

Responsibilities

• Oversee qualitative and quantitative research on food shopping behaviors, grocery trends, and customer needs using a variety of data sources.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advisor to Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Product teams, providing research-backed recommendations to influence food strategy.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional projects, building strong relationships across the organization and with external partners to ensure alignment on food insights and recommendations.
• Present complex research findings clearly and persuasively, using storytelling to convey food and grocery customer insights to senior leadership and non-technical audiences.
• Apply advanced analytics, visualization tools, and project management skills to deliver high-quality work, manage vendors, and ensure timely delivery of food and grocery insights.
• Make omni-channel recommendations with a customer-centric and holistic business approach to food and consumables.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, learning, and innovation to enhance the quality and impact of food insights.
• Mentor associates, build a collaborative team, and uphold Walmart's values of belonging.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers