Senior Manager, Data Analytics - New Propositions

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team

Innovation, curiosity, and learning are at the core of everything we do at Walmart, driving our commitment to serving our customers. By joining the New Propositions team within E-Commerce, you’ll play a key role in validating and scaling new initiatives in Augmented Reality, Generative AI, and home delivery. Our goal is to fuel Walmart’s core business, create new value propositions for our customers, and unlock differentiated experiences for Walmart customers that will enhance and redefine their relationship with retail. 

We are building a hard-working team that is passionate about delighting customers, changing the retail landscape, and driving technical innovation. We are looking for entrepreneurial, collaborative, and forward-thinking teammates to join us in our mission.

About the Role  

We are looking for a Senior Manager of Data Analytics. This data leadership position will report into the Director of Data. We are looking for a data leader who has experience in early-stage startups (a must). You will be an expert on our data and data platforms, partnering with Product and Business to uncover new opportunities as an authority on product analytics that will help generate key insights to scale our product suite. As leader within the data team, you will work cross functionally on a day-to-day basis, manage a diverse team of analysts, and possess strong problem solving and communication skills.

What You’ll Do  

• Hire, retain and lead a team of analysts focused on empowering analytics and delivering insights across the New Propositions product suite.
• Manage the roadmap for how data will be effectively leveraged across our core data platforms and internal tooling that meets the evolving needs of the business.
• Engage with Business and Product team leadership to help define KPIs by having domain expertise in our data and capabilities of our tooling including how data will be captured, shared, and leveraged across our teams.
• Responsible for business performance reporting and KPI visualizations.
• Responsible for our data platforms and analytics tooling, working cross-functionally with our Global Technology team and data platform partners.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in an analytical insights, data, or consulting role
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of data analysts or data scientists.
• Experience leading a team of data engineers or platform engineers, a plus.
• Strong communication skills - 
  • Ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps, transform complex data sets into simple visuals and dashboards for analytical and non-analytical teammates, and keep the big picture in view
  • Superb communication of concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels including C-level executives
  • Excellent storytelling ability leveraging data to drive insights and action
• Work experience in ecommerce and/or conversational commerce
• Experience leveraging data visualization tools (Looker), SQL and/or Python or a statistical package, such as R, SPSS or Stata, and can advise on statistical significance
• Ability to work in an ambiguous entrepreneurial environment being able to manage and execute across multiple priorities while operating independently with minimal supervision

• Know how to inspire, motivate, and support a team to get things done
• Willingness to roll up your sle