(USA) Senior Director, Data Science

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Location: Bentonville, AR

Senior Director, Data Science, Walmart Business

About Walmart Business

Walmart Business is a new omnichannel experience to save businesses, nonprofits and government agencies time, money, and hassle so they can focus on their missions.  We leverage existing Walmart assets and build new capabilities to better serve organizational buyers.  We’re bringing together the Every Day Low Prices, assortment, delivery speed and capabilities of Walmart with new experiences and functionality tailored to the unique needs of organizations.

We are seeking an experienced and business-oriented Senior Director, Data Science to lead analytics and data science across our entire business.

This is an unprecedented opportunity to impact the B2B eCommerce industry, and an exciting time to join Walmart Business as we accelerate and scale.  You’ll have the chance to scale a new business while being backed by the strength of Walmart and having access to the assets of the world's largest omnichannel retailer.

Your scope will be broad and cross multiple areas of work:

The role will lead the full gamut of analytics and data science capabilities across the entirety of Walmart Business.  Broadly categorized, you will be responsible for:

• Business insights:  Conduct regular and ad hoc analyses to support business cases and business decision making.  Identify trends, risks and opportunities for the business.  Engage in key initiatives and embed in critical 4ITB teams.
• Experimentation and modeling:  Drive rapid experiment and A/B testing including with digital twins and synthetic data.  Develop and test models that, if successful, can be scaled and productionized.  Bring AI / ML into our business in an aggressive way.  Collaborate with eComm Data Science / Analytics and with Walmart Business Data Engineering to deliver business value.
• Enablement:  Ensure the right data is available in the right reports and dashboards to understand, evaluate and manage the business day-to-day.  This includes financial, customer, member, marketing, assortment, price, fulfillment, sales and other operational data as well as site and product analytics.  Ensure these tools are self-serve for the business and incorporate intelligence, on top of the data.  Leverage broader eComm reporting / incorporate B2B data there to the greatest degree possible.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Being curious and proactive:  Ask questions to understand what’s happening in the business, spot and deep dive into discontinuities and emerging trends, design and run experiments to gather rapid insights.
• Acting like a general manager:  You will be both the Data Science / Analytics expert and a member of the overall Leadership Team, expected to wear a “general manager” hat and help to steward the overall business. 
• Nailing enablement:   Get the day-to-day reporting right so that you and your team can focus on higher value analytics and data science.
• Advancing AI / ML:  Propel Walmart Business to cutting edge use of AI / ML to improve our business and our customer experiences—notably personalization and dynamic site experiences.

We’re looking for a dynamic leader who is:

• A relentless advocate for the organizations we serve
• A strong communicator who leads with why
• A tenacious operator who can develop and execute an ambitious plan, and raises the bar for performance

• A mature leader who can work effectively with peers and in a matrixed organization, builds trust qu