Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

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The Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics leads the development and execution of sophisticated data models and analytical solutions to address complex business challenges. This role provides strong thought leadership across the organization and upward to senior leaders — translating ambiguous questions into trusted insights, recommended actions, and measurable business impact, then capturing what we learn to sharpen the next decision. Responsible for managing end-to-end projects from rapid prototyping to validated, actionable analytics, the role ensures recommendations are credible enough to act on directly — emphasizing continuous improvement and innovation at every cycle.

Insights & Reporting is Walmart U.S. Merchandising’s advanced analytics team, delivering a trusted view of performance and what’s likely to happen next. The team combines Reporting — a consistent, trusted source of performance data — with Insights, applying diagnostic and predictive analytics to explain results and anticipate what’s next. Using data analysis, statistical methods, predictive modeling, SQL, and Python, we partner with merchants to validate findings and prioritize impactful opportunities.

Our vision: making Walmart America’s Favorite Place to Shop — through assortment, price, experience, and trust — requires decisions that move faster and get smarter every cycle.

• Deliver advanced analytics to merchants and leadership: turn ambiguous questions into credible, forward-looking answers.
• Own driver analysis, forecasting, predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and opportunity identification for Merchandising.
• Earn leadership trust: numbers and recommendations get acted on without re-litigation.
• Use AI-assisted development to shorten the path from question to analysis, validating at every step.
• Match analytical depth to business stakes: deep statistical/ML rigor when warranted, a lighter pass when not.
• Know when a finding should become a standing report, and when a report needs deeper analysis.
• Build and manage centralized reporting dashboards aligned to leadership and merchandising needs.

• Proven experience in advanced/predictive analytics that directly influenced business decisions, not just analysis.
• Fluency translating ambiguous business questions into analytical approaches, and findings into a recommendation.
• Command of statistical analysis and predictive modeling, with enough ML to know what’s appropriate versus overkill.
• Strong SQL, Python, and hands‑on vibe coding — comfort in AI-assisted IDEs and CLI coding agents, with judgment to validate the output.
• A track record of leadership trusting and acting on your numbers directly — no management layer between.
• Executive-level storytelling — presenting complex analysis as a simple, defensible narrative with a recommendation, for merchants and leadership alike.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws,…