Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join Walmart as a Manager, Data Analytics & Data Governance – Global Sourcing and your work could help over 295 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. 

Are you looking to help drive impact through quality business insights and analytics for a fast growing, high-impact area of the business?  The Global Sourcing Data team is just the place.  Our team performs a critical role in partnering with Sourcing teams across strategic business areas including Food, Consumables, Health & Wellness.  This Manager position will manage and oversee a broad range of critical financial activities including financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and business analytics.  In this role, you will partner to identify key sourcing opportunities and investment decisions to help deliver annual and long-range plans, while influencing and leading new ways of working both within finance and with our business partner teams. 

This role will specifically support our efforts to ensure a solid data foundation for the businesses we support, building tools / reporting to enable the finance team to manage business performance more effectively as well as partner with the product team to ensure future tools being built support the long term ambition.   This role will need to be comfortable with data, influencing and understand business partner needs, and building of tools / reports in current software eg PowerBI, Alteryx, etc..

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You love digging into the numbers to find new opportunities or patterns to explain “what and why” behind performance.

• You’re stimulated by challenges and tough problems and can navigate through ambiguous environments.

• You’re a great communicator, have a great eye for detail, and can articulate points in a simplistic approach.

• You thrive in constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environments

• You believe in and prioritize the collective success of the team and are quick to jump in, help, mentor, and coach your fellow team members.

• You’re organized, disciplined, and can manage competing priorities simultaneously.

• You have high standards and believe in accountability.

• You’re curious and creative and have a track record of coming up with inventive and sustainable solutions for big problems and opportunities.

• You have demonstrated experience utilizing & improving tools that enable data visualization and analytics.

You’ll make an impact by:

Driving Strategic Analytics – Understanding key sourcing processes, financial/operational metrics, and business goals and objectives to analyze, interpret, and communicate business performance, identify opportunities, and enable strategic investment decisions.

Being a Trusted Advisor – Quickly developing strong and trusting relationships with internal teams.  Partner and participate in business strategy discussions and influence key business decisions with informed recommendations leveraging facts and data

Delivering Data Driven Analysis – Sourcing and compiling relevant data; organizing and validating data prior to data analysis; consolidating and identifying exceptions and patterns in data; synthesizing data in the creation of actionable customer insights; and translating information into action plans.

Practicing Continuous Process Improvement – Working across the organization to identify and solve issues with a customer-oriented mindset, bringing new ideas forward and influencing positive change

Gaining An Understanding of Sourcing – Demonstrating ability to learn and keep up to date an understanding of Global Sourcing and new and creative solutions to help the business make the best choices.

Driving a New Way of Working – Advancing our journey to become a more digital and data driven team by utilizing and championing data visualization tools to drive the business and educating our stakeholders to promote adoption

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or related field and 2 years’ experience conducting mathematical or statistical research, analysis and modeling intelligence, corporate security, or related area OR 4 years’ experience conducting mathematical or statistical research, analysis and modeling intelligence, corporate security, or related area

• Experience with Tableau, PowerBI or similar data visualization tools, Dataproc | Spark | Hive or similar data processing tools, Dataplex | Collibra or similar data governance tools, Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with large dataset mining tools and open-source programming tools (e.g., R, Python, HiveQL, Spark)

• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines

• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills

• Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or related field and 2 years’ experience conducting mathematical or statistical research, analysis and modeling intelligence, corporate security, or related area OR 4 years’ experience conducting mathematical or statistical research, analysis and modeling intelligence, corporate security, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Business analysis and reporting, Microsoft Office, Statistical modeling software

Primary Location...

701 S. WALTON BLVD., BENTONVILLE, AR 72716-6209, United States of America