Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Description

This is a senior manager role in advanced analytics. You will lead a team and complex projects for a business area, category or prototype.

You will work with senior leaders, business partners, cross-functional teams and outside vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own complex projects from start to finish for a business area, category or prototype, and manage the risks of putting them into practice.
• Meet senior leaders and business partners, including senior and regular directors, to grasp broader goals, pin down the main business challenges, plan ways to anticipate and reduce them, and set success measures.
• Focus your time on the work with the greatest effect on the business.
• Feed research and analysis into business area strategy, giving senior leaders input and practical recommendations.
• Build data models, such as algorithms and methods, for complex work in a business area or category, aimed at business results and value. Work with the project team to put them into practice.
• Lead the building and rollout of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms. Run testing and validation to monitor how the solution performs.
• Test new data analysis techniques that could support prototype work.
• Work with software engineering, category management and other partners on prototypes and algorithms.
• Lead advanced analytics that tackle unusual business and technical problems and support data-driven decisions. Turn results into strategic recommendations for cross-functional leaders.
• Work across all analytics functions to shape data analysis strategy and anticipate future trends and analysis needs.
• Partner with functional leaders and teams such as Categories, Customer Experience and Merchandising to design consultative solutions for complex projects. Work with outside partners and vendors as well.
• Build and lead a team that delivers on business area or category objectives. Coach members, give feedback to build skills and performance, hold performance and career development talks where relevant, keep the team motivated, and mentor less experienced associates and managers.

Requirements

• Hold a master's degree, or equivalent, in business, finance, accounting or a related field, plus 2 years of data analytics or related experience. Alternatively, hold a bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in one of those fields, plus 4 years of data analytics or related experience.
• Have experience in strategic positioning, strategic marketing, value-based pricing, product marketing and new product or innovation strategy.
• Have project management experience.
• Communicate complex business issues clearly, concisely and with impact.
• Build storyboards, advanced PowerPoint slides and Excel models.
• Have experience with growth strategy development and market assessment frameworks.
• Write well and present to leadership, pulling together qualitative and quantitative findings.
• Use Excel to structure and analyze large volumes of data, including advanced features such as pivot tables and VBA, along with SQL for data analysis and modeling.
• Carry out structured, time-bound competitive and market research using major research sources and databases.
• Create and deliver strategic presentations for senior executives, turning complex analyses into clear, actionable insights.
• Manage business initiatives such as acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships, including technology acquisitions.
• Turn business insight into findings using research methods such as subject matter interviews, interview transcript analysis and surveys.
• There is no minimum amount of experience for these skills.

Conditions

Based in Bentonville, AR 72716.

Base pay is $156,915.00 - 180,000.00 per year.

The company is an equal opportunity employer with a drug-free workplace and a zero tolerance policy for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Competitive pay plus performance-based incentive awards, paid annually or quarterly.
• Health coverage for medical, vision and dental.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement and more.
• Eligibility depends on job classification and length of employment. Benefits can change and may follow specific plan or program terms.