Senior, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Data Scientist to join our Marketing Decision Science team. As part of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of marketing strategy by building, analyzing, and interpreting Marketing Mix Models (MMM) to enable data-driven decisions. You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams to quantify the impact of marketing investments, identify optimization opportunities across channels and campaigns, and help drive scalable, measurable business growth.

Our ideal candidate is a sharp, thoughtful, and collaborative problem solver, who enjoys uncovering key business drivers and challenges, and then building data science and analytics solutions to enable strategic decision making. You will have direct visibility with executives and drive our strategic initiatives to support the rapid growth of our omni-channel businesses.

About Walmart Marketing

Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company.

You'll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

We orchestrate marketing campaigns and experiences that reach millions of daily shoppers. Our work spans the digital and physical spaces and combines the work of numerous internal teams and external advertising and media agencies. Our teams work together to show our customers how they can save money and live better. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Marketing role at Walmart could be what youve been looking for.

You will make an impact by :

• Data science ; analytics expertise You excel at designing and implementing impactful analytical approaches to help Walmart quantify and improve the effectiveness of our marketing investments. You will lead the adoption of Marketing Mix Models (MMM) to measure campaign performance and optimize marketing spend across a broad range of short- and long-term business objectives. Leveraging your deep understanding of data structures, you will scope and define data requirements to support model accuracy and scalability.
  
  You are also hands-oncomfortable writing complex Python and SQL queries, proactively troubleshooting issues, and mentoring associates to elevate analytical rigor and quality across the team.

• Well balanced skills People have trouble pinning you down. Both business and technical/ data teams claim you as their own. You are equal parts technical and functional. You are equally comfortable and effective in persuading both technical and business audiences.

• Project ownership You operate with a high agency mindset and can independently lead, execute and oversee end-to-end projects with a high degree of ambiguity. You set ambitious timelines for yourself/team and commit to them while adapting to changing priorities. You have strong organizational skills that enable you to manage multiple priorities, set expectations and collaborate across stakeholders, managers, and peers.

• Business acumen You can translate insights into relevant business recommendations, anticipate the needs of business stakeholders and connect the dots across various teams, research, and insights in order to build convincing and synthesized business recommendations.

You'll sweep us off our feet if:

• Well balanced skills People have trouble pinning you down. Both business and technical/ data teams claim you as their own. You are equal parts technical and functional. You are equally comfortable and effective in persuading both technical and business audience

• Great communicator Youre capable of telling the story behind the data and resulting insights to exec audience and you are a pro at building slide decks that can simplify any complex story. You can customize your communication style based on stakeholders.…