Senior Analyst, Merchandising Replenishment

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role   

About the Team: 

We are an Omni-Channel, Inbound Problem Freight Team that works to resolve receiving issues at Walmart Distribution Centers. We Identify and troubleshoot problems, such as incorrect items or quantities received. We partner with suppliers, internal stakeholders and inventory health teams to root cause and prevent future occurrences. 

What you’ll do: 

• Implements complex inventory strategies within categories by building forecasts to align with merchandising needs, validating and implementing new item forecasts, monitoring and calibrating store forecasts, and operating and manipulating office productivity software, statistical packages, inventory management systems, and ad hoc query tools. 

• Helps achieve financial results for merchandise categories by analyzing data and using bottom-up inventory planning to develop recommendations, analyzing seasonal inventory flow plans to ensure they meet customer demand and return-on-investment goals, participating in and managing cross-functional projects to meet strategic financial plans, leveraging analytics to influence decisions, modeling future inventory plans based on supplier capability, delivering key performance metrics and communicating objectives and results of financial and operational performance to internal and external management. 

• Ensures high quality customer service is being provided to stores by tracking and responding to store correspondence, remedy tickets, and calls, determining root cause, executing change forecasts, conducting research, identifying patterns in remedy tickets, identifying opportunities to improve existing processes, making recommendations for improving processes, and providing support to the stores for area of focus. 

• Assists with the execution of item-level replenishment for medium-complexity categories with limited scope by tracking modular set dates to ensure product alignment, understanding the buying strategy for each modular, understanding and accounting for specific item attributes and how those items arrive at the store, executing inventory strategies, partnering with suppliers on item specific information (for example, item deletes, item adds), and coordinating solutions for exceptions that fall within the business. 

• Manages process standardization by developing and managing best practices to create consistency and standardization of processes and deliverables, creating standardized operating procedures, developing training material, following up with stores to ensure consistency, developing a standardized way to track modular, and developing automated alerts. 

What you’ll bring: 

• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies it to developing, executing, and improving action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others, supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs, and building commitm