Senior Director, Advanced Analytics

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

• Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs, SVPs), providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy, innovation, and customer outcomes.
• Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies, articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design, innovation, and advocacy across channels.
• Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area, category, or prototype, ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities.
• Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects, guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies.
• Oversee production‑ready analytics solutions, including complex algorithms and proofs of concept, and present them to cross‑functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Merchandising, Category Management) to drive adoption and buy‑in.
• Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing) to advance prototype development and scalable solutions.
• Guide data collection and analysis strategies, ensuring analytical rigor, appropriate team structures, and iteration models to solve complex business challenges.
• Collaborate across analytics and business leadership, aligning data and insight strategies to business priorities and category performance.
• Build and sustain strong cross‑functional partnerships across the organization (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising), ensuring alignment, shared ownership, and implementation of recommendations.
• Develop and coach analytics leaders and associates, providing mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities while identifying and building emerging capabilities needed for future success.
• Set strategic direction for the function by analyzing business objectives, customer needs, costs, forecasts, and operational performance, while driving continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Attract, develop, and retain top analytics talent, leading workforce planning, succession strategies, and capability development to maintain a highly skilled and engaged organization.
• Model and uphold Walmart’s values, embedding integrity, ethics, and the Open Door culture into all programs, decisions, and leadership practices.
• Leverage internal and external partnerships to advance business goals, representing the organization in key stakeholder engagements and industry or community initiatives.

What you’ll bring...

• Executive‑level expertise in advanced analytics, data science, and modeling strategy within complex or matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, translating data and insights into clear, actionable business strategies.
• Strong experience leading large‑scale analytics programs, including model development, algorithm implementation, and production deployment.
• Deep knowledge of modern analytics techniques and tools, including machine learning and emerging data science methodologies.
• Proven people leadership capability, with experience developing senior leaders, managers, and high‑performing analytics teams.
• Exceptional cross‑functional partnership skills, with the ability to drive alignment and buy‑in across diverse business stakeholders.
• A strong strategic and customer‑centric mindset, balancing innovation, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
San Bruno, California US-08848: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00
Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279: The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 6 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 8 years'
experience in data analytics or related field.
6 years' supervisory experience OR experience leading cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Cluster analysis techniques, simulation, inferential statistics, neural networks, or data mining techniques

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.