
Manager, Advanced Analytics
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Sunnyvale • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $113,949 - $202,000 per year
About the role
- Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs.
- Owns workstreams and individual projects end-to-end for a business area, category or prototype.
- Manages risk associated with implementation.
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.
- Works with leadership/business partners (e.g., Directors) to discuss and understand goals/functional objectives and key business challenges to develop hypotheses around current and future business issues.
- Provides guidance to Directors and advises on next steps based on insights objectives and research.
- Presents actionable recommendations to Directors to inform strategic and tactical functional initiatives.
- Develops data models (algorithms, approaches) for workstreams and individual projects within a business area or category to drive business results and value.
- Collaborates with project team to implement modeling solutions.
- Manages the testing and validation process to monitor the solution.
- Collaborates with Advanced Analytics Experts to develop new data analysis techniques.
- Addresses complex business problems by applying advanced analytics to drive data-driven decision making.
- Makes strategic recommendations to team based on data analysis.
- Collaborates with functional leadership and cross-functional teams (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for workstreams and individual projects for a business area, category or prototype.
- Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge and work performance.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field; OR Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 2 years of experience in data analytics or related field.
- Experience using advanced MySQL queries to conduct deep dive analysis and identify business opportunities.
- Experience utilizing technical expertise in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools Tableau for reporting and seamlessly communicate data insights.
- Experience using Python for risk analysis by writing data-driven queries and to identify patterns and mitigate potential risks.
- Experience leveraging SAS queries for advanced risk analysis and uncover business insights and support data driven decision making.
- Experience using advanced Excel technical tool for risk analysis, enabling efficient data evaluation through functions including VLOOKUP, PivotTables, VBA, and Macros.
- Experience programming for robust risk analysis, leverage packages Performance Analytics to execute historical Value-at-risk and other advanced statistical models.
- Experience utilizing Power BI to perform real-time risk analysis by visualizing key risk indicators and trends across large datasets.
- Experience applying MATLAB for quantitative risk analysis by building and simulating complex financial models, including stress testing and scenario analysis.
- Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or professional experience with the required skills.
Benefits
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data analyticsMySQLBusiness Intelligence (BI)TableauPythonSASExcelPower BIMATLABstatistical modeling
Soft skills
relationship managementproject managementrisk managementcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem solvingleadership