Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics - Inventory Capabilities

Position Summary...

Walmart is a people‑led, tech‑powered omnichannel retailer. Our goal is to serve customers and members wherever they are, with the things they want, when they want them. A key contributor to overall customer satisfaction is the order fulfillment and in‑store shopping experience. Accurately forecasting customer demand and placing the right amount of inventory in the right location will enhance the customer experience with Walmart and is critical to enabling the supply chain of the future.

The Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics – Inventory Capabilities is a critical thought‑leadership role on the Merchandising Excellence team. In this role, you sit at the intersection of customer expectations, business process, supply chain constraints, and product development. You will be responsible for working cross‑functionally to deliver advanced analytics solutions that will shape the development of our inventory systems & products for years to come.

You will interact heavily with business stakeholders and leverage your analytical prowess to drive product capability requirements and deliver business objectives. Your work in these areas will re‑shape the way in which we deploy resources to enable an end‑to‑end supply chain capable of supporting availability, however customers choose to interact with Walmart.

• You’re a visionary… anticipating where customer expectations are heading to help shape a strategy for Walmart to leapfrog competition while balancing the needs of today.
• You’re curious… taking ownership and diving deep into root cause analysis to solve forecasting and inventory optimization problems at scale.
• You’re inspiring… leading broad organizational changes isn’t easy, but you educate and motivate others to move forward through effective storytelling.
• You build trust quickly & lead by influence… creating sustainable business impact through partnership, as well as end‑to‑end ownership.
• You know big data…and, most importantly, how to translate complex information into user‑friendly insights, tools, product requirements, and stories to influence business strategy.
• You're an enabler of AI… understanding data science concepts to enable automation of processes and augment decision‑making.
• You’re an effective communicator… flexing your skills by using data and metrics to tell stories verbally, through written word documents, and in presentations.
• You have academic and/or professional experience in the fields of Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Setting strategic direction on corporate initiatives related to forecasting and inventory capabilities and evolving business processes to leverage automation.
• Being obsessed with positive customer outcomes and demonstrating the ability to define business problems, metric outcomes and how they will be measured and monitored for broad utilization across stakeholders.
• Providing data‑driven insights and analysis to influence the development and deployment of tech capabilities.
• Becoming an invaluable strategic partner by collaborating to unify business processes, identify opportunities for automation, and scale best practice & governance across the organization.
• Communicating effectively to build stakeholder engagement, prepare the organization for change management, and influence large groups of cross‑functional partners.
• Performing business &/or statistical analysis to understand drivers of performance, predict outcomes, and influence business strategy.
• Preparing documentation (e.g., Word, Power Point) to communicate recommendations based on research and data analysis. Supports the implementation of process, systems, and tool solutions.
• Successfully navigating in ambiguous environments, with multiple cross‑functional stakeholders, in pursuit of end‑to‑end business process improvement.
• Promoting and supporting company mission, values, & standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance; and utilizing and supporting the Open‑Door Policy.