Senior Manager, Data Science, PepsiCo Customer Team- Walmart

Overview

Location - TX-Plano-5600-Office-TX240

 

Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, PepsiCo Customer Team- Walmart (L11)

 

PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with a product portfolio including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales along with a billion smiles.Our main businesses – Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Quaker and Gatorade – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world.

At PepsiCo, you get the best of both worlds: an entrepreneur’s mindset plus reach and resources. Our collaborative culture and worldwide presence generate a stream of new opportunities to define the future and propel your life’s work.

 

Bring your unique perspective. Bring curiosity. Bring ingenuity, and drive. We’ll give you a platform to be daring on a global scale.

 

About the Job:

 

If you are passionate about problem solving and want to fuel growth, come join the PepsiCo

Customer Team for Walmart Inc., which includes Walmart US and Sam’s Club.

 

The Senior Manager Advanced Analytics for PepsiCo’s Walmart Customer Team will be crucial in leading data science and analytics practice, leveraging internal data as well as Walmart’s new Luminate data platform to accelerate growth.

 

In this role, you will lead data science and visualization initiatives for omnichannel performance across the entire beverages and foods portfolio for a significant portion of PepsiCo’s business in North America, reporting into the Director of Advanced Analytics.

 

The Senior manager of Data Science would be someone who thrives at the intersection of data science, technology and business understanding to drive source to shelf supply chain analytics and bring an understanding of economics to inform pricing and net revenue management analytics to drive omnichannel revenue growth and improve share of market.

 

You are someone who loves to look for the best solution instead of being satisfied with the status quo.

 

As a leader, you would be communicating the results to key commercial team members in sales, supply chain, marketing, eCommerce and Insights teams. 

 

It will be critical to derive meaningful insights and translate sophisticated results or algorithms into actionable and clearly expressed conclusions that will empower the business to take meaningful actions.

 

What our team does:

 

• Build machine learning systems to understand the cross-channel Walmart performance
• Perform statistical analysis across diverse datasets to drive and measure performance
• Work with PepsiCo’s strategic partners to expand their technical capabilities, thereby creating a more robust data environment
• Partner with global teams to develop scalable tools to drive automation and optimize business operations
• Solve commercial problems from headquarters all the way down to the field

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team of data scientists and business intelligence experts to inform supply chain and commercial teams with insights
• Hands on mining of large data sets and development of supervised and unsupervised models/algorithms to uncover trends, patterns, and insights
• Establish standards for writing clean, organized machine learning code to streamline machine learning workflow within the team
• Provide critical thought leadership to enhance organizational capabilities by utilizing a variety of data sets; work with business stakeholders to identify and execute on opportunities for enhancement
• Leads building and codification of analytical insights in several business domains including sales, marketing, supply chain and omnichannel to develop granular analytics and drive effectiveness for assortment & merchandising optimization, store clustering, new product introductions, seasonal programs, shopper marketing, and pricing & promotional planning
• Brings in a combination of analytical expertise, data and system knowledge and business insight, to answer and anticipate critical business questions and opportunities and deliver insights to the business in ways that make significant impact
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams including account teams (sales, strategy, e-comm sales, commercial insights, advanced analytics team, shopper marketing), brand, supply chain, and commercialization teams.
• Partner with other analytics leaders within PepsiCo to foster enhanced analytical capabilities globally
• Have a curious mindset and explore and learn new technologies that might be relevant to the role

 

Compensation and Benefits:

 

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