Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

What you'll do...

Position: Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Job Location: 601 N Walton Blvd, Bentonville, AR 72712

Duties: 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; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. 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; and 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, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. People Development: Builds and leads a team to execute on business area or category objectives. Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge, and work performance. Conducts performance and career development conversations, if applicable. Maintains team motivation and engagement. Mentors less experienced associates and managers. Business Partnerships: Consults with senior leadership/ business partners (e.g., Sr. Directors/Directors) to understand goals/functional objectives, understand and identify key business issues and formulate ideas to mitigate current and future business challenges/issues; confirms functional research objectives and oversees development of tactical research plans. Manages the creation of and presents actionable recommendations to Sr. Directors/Directors to contribute to business results. Serves as a subject matter expert to the business on market insights. Project Scope: Owns multiple projects end-to-end for a business area, category or prototype. Manages risk associated with implementation.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management, or related field plus 3 years of experience in data analytics or a related field.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Storytelling with data visualizations using Tableau/PowerBI; Leveraging SQL to create meaningful insights for business innovation; Advanced analysis and data modelling using MS Excel; Demand/supply planning systems to manage and control flow process; Supply chain theory and concepts to conduct supply chain analytics; Product management techniques to improve systems/products; Project Management expertise with end-to-end ownership of projects; Data Mining techniques to conduct exploratory data analysis; Building, executing, and supporting initiatives improving Replenishment, Supply Chain and Stores Operations; Analyzing and drawing insights from large data sets using Python; Statistical Analysis of datasets using Minitab; Capacity planning insights to manage inbound flow. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.