Walmart

(USA) Senior Manager, Data Analytics

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
RetailIndustries

Job Description

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

This role focuses on leveraging data to solve business problems, improve decision-making, and drive value. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data sources, analytics techniques, data visualization, data strategy, and data quality management.

Key Responsibilities and Skills

Data Source Identification

  • Knowledge Required:
    • Functional business domain and scenarios
    • Categories of data and their locations
    • Business data requirements
    • Database technologies and distributed datastores (e.g., SQL, NoSQL)
    • Data Quality principles
    • Existing business systems and processes, including key drivers and measures of success
  • What you'll do:
    • Support the understanding of priority order of requirements and service level agreements.
    • Identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose.
    • Perform initial data quality checks on extracted data.

Tech Problem Formulation

  • Knowledge Required:
    • Analytics, big data analytics, automation techniques and methods
    • Business understanding, precedence, and use cases
    • Business requirements and insights
  • What you'll do:
    • Translate co-owned business problems within one's discipline into data-related or mathematical solutions.
    • Identify appropriate methods and tools to provide a solution for the problem.
    • Share use cases and provide examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem.

Data Visualization

  • Knowledge Required:
    • Visualization guidelines and best practices for complex data types
    • Multiple data visualization tools (e.g., Python R libraries, GGplot, Matplotlib, Plotly, Tableau, PowerBI)
    • Advanced visualization techniques and tools
    • Multiple story plots and structures
    • OABCDE Communication influencing technique, Emotional intelligence
  • What you'll do:
    • Identify and recommend the most suitable visualization tools based on context.
    • Generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes.
    • Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for complex data sets.
    • Drive User Experience designers and User Interface engineers to build front-end applications.
    • Define application design based on customer requirements.
    • Build compelling stories based on context to integrate multiple pieces of information into cohesive insights.
    • Present to and influence audiences using appropriate data visualization frameworks and convey clear messages through deep business and stakeholder understanding.
    • Customize communication style based on stakeholders and leverage relationships to drive behavioral change.
    • Guide and mentor junior associates on story types, structures, and techniques based on context.

Data Strategy

  • Knowledge Required:
    • Understanding of business value and relevance of data and data-enabled insights/decisions.
    • Appropriate application and understanding of the data ecosystem, including Data Management, Data Quality Standards, and Data Governance, Accessibility, Storage, and Scalability.
    • Understanding of the methods and applications that unlock the monetary value of data assets.
  • What you'll do:
    • Understand, articulate, interpret, and apply the principles of the defined strategy to unique, moderately complex business problems that may span one or main functions or domains.

Data Quality Management

  • Knowledge Required:
    • Data quality management techniques and standards
    • Business metadata definitions and content, data definitions
    • Data profiling tools, data cleansing tools, data integration tools, and issues and event management tools
    • Understanding of users' data consumption, data needs, and business implications
    • Data modeling, storage, integration, and warehousing
    • Data quality framework and metrics
    • User access best practices
    • Enterprise data architecture, modeling and design, storage, integration, and warehousing
    • Enterprise data quality framework and metrics
    • Enterprise data strategy, Enterprise data quality strategy
    • Enterprise strategy to address regulatory and ethical requirements and policies around data privacy, security, storage, retention, and documentation
  • What you'll do:
    • Promote and educate others on data quality awareness.
    • Profile, analyze, and assess data quality.
    • Test and validate data quality requirements.
    • Continuously measure and monitor data quality.
    • Deliver against data quality service level agreements.
    • Manage operational Data Quality Management procedures.

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Company Information

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Skills

Data Analytics
Big Data Analytics
SQL
NoSQL
Data Quality
Data Visualization
Tableau
PowerBI
Python
R
Matplotlib
Plotly
Communication
Influencing

Walmart

Global retail chain offering affordable products

About Walmart

Walmart operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, providing a wide variety of products at low prices to everyday consumers, families, and communities. The company combines physical retail locations with an e-commerce platform, allowing customers to shop for groceries, apparel, electronics, and household items both in-store and online. Walmart's efficient supply chain management and large-scale purchasing enable it to maintain affordability, setting it apart from competitors. The company also offers financial services and health and wellness services, including pharmacies and vision centers. Walmart's goal is to save people money and support communities, as demonstrated by its efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and its commitment to social responsibility, including programs for veterans and military families.

Bentonville, ArkansasHeadquarters
1962Year Founded
$5,515MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Financial Services, Consumer GoodsIndustries
10,001+Employees

Benefits

PTO: Paid vacation, sick time, personal time and holiday time
10% discount on regularly priced general merchandise and fresh fruits and vegetables
6% 401(k) match to all employees, including hourly workers, after one year
Roth IRA available
Associate Stock Purchase Plan
maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%
Health reimbursement plans

Risks

Rising U.S. labor costs could pressure profit margins.
Amazon's grocery delivery expansion threatens Walmart's market share.
Fintech investments expose Walmart to financial regulatory risks.

Differentiation

Walmart's omnichannel strategy integrates physical and online retail seamlessly.
The company offers a wide range of products at consistently low prices.
Walmart's commitment to community support enhances its brand reputation.

Upsides

Walmart's investment in fintech expands its financial services offerings.
Robotics integration in distribution centers boosts operational efficiency.
Culturally themed product lines attract diverse customer segments.

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