Senior Director, Advanced Analytics Supplier Excellence

Senior Director, Advanced Analytics Supplier ExcellenceBusiness Partnerships: Drives results and strategy around the business objectives by providing consulting expertise and acting as a subject matter expert to senior functional leadership (e.g., VPs, SVPs). Articulates the needs of current and future customers to executive leadership. Consults with executive leadership to identify opportunities to use insights about current and future customers to inform opportunities to drive innovation in the customer experience. Develops strategies to advance customer advocacy across channels by providing direction on customer strategies.Project Scope: Leads all advanced analytics projects for a moderately complex business area/category or prototype across platforms based on broad industry and organizational knowledge. Ensures solution and analytical plans reflect business priorities.Model Development: Directs the development and implementation of data models for all projects within a moderately complex business area or category. Leads the development of new modeling algorithms and approaches by evaluating industry trends. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to align modeling solutions with business priorities and strategies.Proof of Concept and Prototype: Directs the implementation of production-ready complex algorithms for all projects. Presents production-ready algorithms to cross-functional partners (e.g., software engineering, category management) to gain buy-in. Evaluates new data analysis tools and processes (e.g., natural language processing, machine learning) to determine their utility for prototype and algorithm development.Data Collection and Analysis: Directs analysis of business issues considering team structures and iteration models needed to develop innovative solutions. Leads the development of new analytics approaches by evaluating industry trends and business area or category performance. Collaborates with leadership across all analytics functions to define the data analysis strategies based on business priorities.Collaboration: Partners with functional leadership and other cross-functional leaders across the organization (e.g., Categories, Customer Experience, Merchandising) to develop consultative solutions for all projects for a moderately complex business area/category or prototype. Ensure buy-in for recommendations as necessary and ensure alignment on data analysis strategies. Proactively maintains existing relationships and develops new relationships with external business partners and vendors.People Development: Ensures associates are receiving learning and development opportunities (e.g., training, mentoring) for the good of the associate and Walmart. Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge, and work performance. Mentors less experienced associates, managers, and directors. Identifies new and emerging skills needed by analytics associates. Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices. Analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements. Evaluating operational processes, measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas.Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer member experience for all. Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments, supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent. Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives, and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts). Act with Integrity: Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct, and company policies, promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, and models our culture of nonretaliation, listens to concerns raised by associates, and takes action and enables others to do the same, holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values. Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware.Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members. Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies. Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmarts business model.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 Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors 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.The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:StockMinimum Qualifications: Bachelors 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: Cluster analysis techniques, simulation, inferential statistics, neural networks, or data mining techniques. Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics.Primary Location: 508 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and have 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.