Senior Director, Advanced Analytics – Supplier Excellence

Position Summary

Position Summary...

Business Partnerships Drives results and strategy around the business objectives by providing consulting expertise and acting as a subject matter expert to senior functional leadership (e.g., VPs, SVPs) to articulate the needs of current and future customers to executive leadership. Consults with executive leadership to identify opportunities to use insights about current and future customers to inform opportunities to drive innovation in the customer experience.

Develops strategies to advance customer advocacy across channels by providing direction on customer strategies.

• Leads all advanced analytics projects for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype across platforms based on broad industry and organizational knowledge.
• Ensures solution and analytical plans reflect business priorities.
• Directs the development and implementation of data models for all projects within a moderately complex business area or category.
• Leads the development of new modeling algorithms and approaches by evaluating industry trends.
• Collaborates with cross functional teams to align modeling solutions with business priorities and strategies.
• Directs the implementation of production-ready complex algorithms for all projects and presents them to cross functional partners to gain buy-in.
• Evaluates new data analysis tools and processes (e.g., natural language processing, machine learning) to determine their utility for prototype and algorithm development.

• Directs analysis of business issues considering team structures and iteration models needed to develop innovative solutions.
• Leads the development of new analytics approaches by evaluating industry trends and business area performance.
• Collaborates with leadership across all analytics functions to define data analysis strategies based on business priorities.
• Partners with functional leadership and other cross functional leaders to develop consultative solutions and ensure buy-in for recommendations and alignment on data strategies.
• Maintains existing relationships and develops new relationships with external business partners and vendors.

• Ensures associates are receiving learning and development opportunities, coaching team members, and providing feedback to enhance skills and performance.
• Mentors less-experienced associates, managers, and directors; identifies new and emerging skills needed by analytics staff.
• Provides direction by analyzing objectives, building support for business strategies, evaluating costs, forecasting, and ensuring resource requirements.
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce and fosters a culture of integrity and ethics.

• Promotes Walmart values, supports open-door policy, and fosters a culture of belonging and inclusion.
• Act with integrity; ensure teams follow the law, code of conduct, and policies; promote nonretaliation and accountability.
• Leads as an altruistic servant leader, modeling humility and self-awareness.

• Delivers expected business results with a customer/member-first approach and an omnichannel mindset.
• Adopts a holistic perspective when planning and implementing strategies across data analytics and business areas.
• Strive for Excellence by fostering learning, innovation, and resilience; supports digital disruption aligned with Walmart’s model.

Walmart offers competitive pay and performance-based bonuses along with benefits including medical, vision, dental, 401(k), stock purchase, life insurance, PTO, and other programs. Live Better U provides education benefits. Eligibility and plans may vary by role and tenure. For information about benefits, see One.

Walmart.

508 Sw 8

Th St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 6 years of experience in data analytics or related field OR 8 years of experience in data analytics or related field.
• 6 years of supervisory experience OR experience leading cross-functional teams.

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position.

• Cluster analysis techniques, simulation, inferential statistics, neural networks, or data mining techniques
• Masters degrees:
  Business Administration, Information Systems, Statistics

Equal Opportunity Employer statements apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.