Senior Director, Advanced Analytics

Walmart

. Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeSan Bruno • California, New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $169,000 - $338,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes.
Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies, articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design, innovation, and advocacy across channels.
Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype, ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities.
Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects, guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies.
Oversee production-ready analytics solutions, including complex algorithms and proofs of concept, and present them to cross-functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Merchandising, Category Management) to drive adoption and buy-in.
Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing) to advance prototype development and scalable solutions.
Guide data collection and analysis strategies, ensuring analytical rigor, appropriate team structures, and iteration models to solve complex business challenges.
Collaborate across analytics and business leadership, aligning data and insight strategies to business priorities and category performance.
Build and sustain strong cross-functional partnerships across the organization (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising), ensuring alignment, shared ownership, and implementation of recommendations.
Develop and coach analytics leaders and associates, providing mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities while identifying and building emerging capabilities needed for future success.
Set strategic direction for the function by analyzing business objectives, customer needs, costs, forecasts, and operational performance, while driving continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 8 years' experience in data analytics or related field.
6 years' supervisory experience OR experience leading cross-functional teams.
Strong experience leading large-scale analytics programs, including model development, algorithm implementation, and production deployment.
Deep knowledge of modern analytics techniques and tools, including machine learning and emerging data science methodologies.
Proven people leadership capability, with experience developing senior leaders, managers, and high-performing analytics teams.
Exceptional cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to drive alignment and buy-in across diverse business stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analyticsadvanced analyticsdata modelingalgorithm developmentmachine learningnatural language processingdata collection strategiesanalytical rigorprototype developmentscalable solutions

Soft Skills

strategic partnershipconsulting expertisecross-functional collaborationpeople leadershipmentoringfeedbackgrowth opportunitiesalignmentinnovationcontinuous improvement

Certifications

Bachelor's degreesupervisory experience