(USA) Senior, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work. Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs. Join us and you'll discover why our company is a world leader in belonging, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

What you'll do...

As a Senior Data Scientist supporting Operations Analytics, you will serve as a key strategic partner to the cross-functional team and oversee development and application of automated, action-oriented insights to drive associate engagement, experience and support. You will partner closely with the Business, Product, & Technology teams to build solutions that scale, with speed. You will lead and develop a team of analytics, forecasting and data science professionals, partnering with business stakeholders to address business questions and business needs with data and insights.  

   

You’ll make an impact through: 

Driving Client/Business Needs: Build and maintain consistent relationships with business partners and proactively identify and deliver their needs. Create a sense of urgency across cross-functional teams, create innovative strategies, drive alignment and action. 

Business Thought Partnership: Accountable for developing and delivering thought leadership in defining the problem statement, exploring viable solutions to address business questions.  Translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects, align them to business strategy and objectives. Seek and provide constructive feedback, anticipate latent needs/questions, and respond appropriately. 

Operations Analytics: Lead a team responsible for analytics around Sam's operations center. 1- Drive day-to-day business needs, and 2- work towards long-term goals such as improving Sam's reporting for associates, associate’s experience, and optimized Operations KPIs.  

Efficiency & Automation: Continuously reduce the workload by creating self-service tools, automating the existing pipelines, prioritizing and allocating resources towards business goals.  

Horizontal Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive and operationalize horizontal capabilities that drive scale and speed, including ensuring effective governance of data, effective use of the roadmap to drive visibility and prioritization and focus on self-service, automation, and AI. 

Developing high-performance team: Focus on development of a high performing team, ensuring training in technical skills, role modelling Walmart’s Leadership Expectations to inspire trust, and driving accountability, execution, and collaboration. Mentors team members on product roadmap and development.   

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you are: 

• A team player with the courage to drive change through disruption while maintaining respect for the team and working across silos. 

• Inquisitive, focused, organized, and an abstract thinker. 

• Curious: You stay up to date with the latest technological developments in the data science community, and are excited to enable high-impact outcomes in the face of complex problems and large datasets 

• Bold with a bias for action: You are a doer, thriving on the challenges of delivering hardened and optimized models as part of production systems 

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