Manager, Advanced Analytics

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Contributing to a high-performance culture delivering multiple projects, priorities in a fast-paced and growing segment of Walmart ecommerce business
• Contributing to the development of strategy for reporting, testing, analyzing, and forecasting business and risk performance for Marketplace (3rd Party Sellers) segment
• Identify and provide both tactical ad hoc insights and a strategic ongoing roadmap of deep analytics to inform seller risk management performance and policies
• Delivering key data-driven business insights, working with cross-functional partners to translate risk insights into business / product strategy
• Working with the Product Management team to find gaps in current products, potential risk controls, gathering requirements, creating data moratoriums, and designing data products for business users
• Collaborate on roadmaps with the Product, Data Science, and other Analytics teams to understand growth and risk factors of new and future product releases
• Defining how teams measure success by developing user/business metrics
• Working effectively with Business, Product, Technology, and Data teams to understand strategy and translate that into analytic approaches, data requirements, and data models
• Designing and conducting A/B and multi-variate tests by developing test plans, defining success metrics, analyzing, and transforming data into actionable insights
• Automating data and analytic solutions at scale
• Gaining support from the broader Walmart enterprise by engaging with cross-functional teams, leadership, and key stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience with commerce platforms, acquiring and seller risk management
• Storytelling using data
• Experience solving new problems and finding answers
• Customer centricity at the forefront
• Experience working in multiple business areas, functions, or segments
• Strong understanding of statistics with applied experience analyzing large data sets
• Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Knowledge of managing data for experiments (sampling, labeling, EDA, etc.)
• Strong skills in Python, R, SQL, and Hive queries
• Experience transforming/automating data within cloud architectures (e.g., Google Cloud Platform)
• Hands-on experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau, R Shiny, and/or Looker
• Ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders, including data scientists and data engineers
• Curiosity, proactivity, and comfort working in unstructured environments
• Experience driving understanding of customers and their interaction with products through in-depth analyses of user behavior and engagement
• Passion for working in a fast-paced agile environment

Nice to Have

• BA or Master's Degree in Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field
• Background in Marketplace Analytics, Retail and/or eCommerce Analytics
• Retail and/or eCommerce industry experience in a heavily data-driven environment
• Risk management and application of analytics
• Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis
• Masters in Business Administration, Information Systems, or Statistics

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Business, Marketing, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years of experience in data analysis or an analytical capacity in risk management
• Strong organizational skills, ownership, accountability, project leadership, effective communication, and self-starting ability

Benefits & Perks

• Performance-based incentive awards
• 401k with company match
• Stock purchase plan
• Paid parental leave
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off including PTO, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program