Understanding Business Context: Requires knowledge of Industry and environmental factors; Understanding of business processes and practices across two or more domains such as retail, omni channel commerce, marketing, sales, retail media, technology or product.
Tech. Problem Formulation: Requires knowledge of Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods
- Business understanding and Identification and recommendation of technical approaches to resolve business problems effectively using analytics.
- Thought Leadership: Accountable for developing and delivering business insights. Provide thought leadership and counsel to stakeholders in defining the problem statement, exploring viable solutions to address business questions. Translate business requirements into analytical strategies, initiatives, and projects, and align them to key business objectives.
- Establish Data Strategy: Requires knowledge of understanding of business value and relevance of data and data enabled insights / decisions; Appropriate application and understanding of data ecosystem including Data Management, Data Quality Standards and Data Governance, Accessibility, Storage and Scalability, etc.;
- Delivering solutions that scale
- Drive and operationalize horizontal capabilities that drive scale and speed, including ensuring effective governance of data, effective use of the roadmap to drive visibility and prioritization and focus on self-service, automation, and AI.
- Developing high-performance team: Focus on development of a high performing team, ensuring training on technical skills, role modelling Walmart s Leadership Expectations to inspire trust, and driving accountability, execution of prioritized work in the roadmap, and cross functional collaboration.
- Mentors team members on product roadmap and development.
What youll bring
You ll sweep us off our feet if you are:
A team player with the courage to drive change through disruption while maintaining respect for the team and working across silos.
Inquisitive, focused, organized, and an abstract thinker.
Curious: You stay up to date with the latest technology developments in the data science community, and are excited to enable high-impact outcomes in the face of complex problems and large datasets
Bold with a bias for action: You are a doer, thriving on the challenges of delivering hardened and optimized models as part of production systems
Technically strong and high-performing individual with excellent communication skills, a proven analytical mindset, and customer focus.
Industry knowledge of the retail space, with a keen interest in keeping up to date on the latest happenings in this space.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in business, finance, analytics, data science, or related field required. Master s degree preferred.
10+ years of professional experience in roles focused on adding value through building analytical solutions and products for complex, cross functional business problems.
6+ years of experience in leading High performing analytical teams. Leading teams in on/offshore model is a huge plus
Knowledge of high-end analytical tools for forecasting, attribution, and marketing mix models
Passion for understanding business challenges and delivering solid solutions.
Experienced in taking complex data and information from reporting teams and synthesizing into meaningful insights and clear story for leadership in PowerPoint.
Excellent planning and project management skills.
A highly motivated leader with the ability to devise solutions in unstructured situations.
Succeeds in fast-moving environment, effectively balancing a variety of fast-turn deliverables, working with various constituents.
Retail industry or Subscription Business Model experience will be a plus