Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Description

The role is a senior management position in advanced analytics, based at the Bentonville, AR office.

You will lead a team and own analytics projects from start to finish for a business area, category or prototype.

Responsibilities

• Check that the business's needs are being met by reviewing how well current plans, programs and initiatives work over time.
• Consult with business partners, managers, colleagues and other key stakeholders, then gather, assess and apply their ideas for better efficiency and cost control.
• Take part in and support community outreach events.
• Build and lead a team that delivers business area or category goals.
• Coach team members and give feedback to build their skills, knowledge and performance.
• Hold performance and career development conversations where they apply.
• Keep the team motivated and engaged.
• Mentor less experienced associates and managers.
• Work with senior leaders and business partners, including Sr. Directors and Directors, to understand their goals and key issues, and to propose ideas that address current and future challenges.
• Agree research objectives with the business and oversee tactical research plans.
• Prepare and present actionable recommendations to Sr. Directors and Directors that drive business results.
• Act as the business's subject matter expert on market insights.
• Own multiple projects end to end for a business area, category or prototype, and manage implementation risk.
• Build data models, such as algorithms and approaches, across multiple projects in a business area or category to deliver results and value, and work with the project team to implement them.
• Lead the development and rollout of prototypes and production-ready complex algorithms, and manage testing and validation to monitor them.
• Work with Advanced Analytics Experts to develop new data analysis techniques.
• Lead the development and use of advanced analytics for unique business and technical problems that support data-driven decisions.
• Give analytics leadership strategic recommendations based on your analysis, and help the team build data analysis strategies.
• Work with functional leadership and cross-functional teams, such as Categories, Customer Experience and Merchandising, to create consultative solutions across multiple projects.
• Work with external business partners and vendors every day.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Accounting, Statistics or a related field, plus 3 years of experience in data analytics or related experience.
• Hands-on experience using Python to build data validations.
• Advanced data analysis techniques, including clustering, correlation analysis, feature engineering and dimension reduction, to prepare data for accurate demand forecasting.
• Statistical modeling for order replenishment, optimizing store-level orders and balancing cost against waste and out-of-stock losses.
• Building SQL data pipelines to prepare data for forecasting models.
• Advanced SQL skills to draw insights from client data and improve the accuracy and reliability of analysis and validation.
• Using Power BI and Python to build clear data stories, dashboards and visualizations that show cost savings, forecast accuracy gains and inventory improvements.
• Working with retail sales datasets to find anomalies and patterns such as seasonality, cannibalization and price elasticity.
• Piloting and rolling out incremental upgrades for product enhancement delivery, setting priorities and managing backlogs.
• Setting up and running governance structures for agile projects.
• Gathering requirements, running gap analysis, collaborating with stakeholders, analyzing data, mapping process flows and writing concise reports to support decisions.
• The employer will accept any amount of experience with these skills.

Conditions

Base pay is $110,302.00 to $180,000.00 per year, plus annual or quarterly performance incentives.

The role is based in Bentonville, AR.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The company maintains a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drug and alcohol use on the job.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based incentive awards.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Some benefits depend on job classification and length of employment, and are subject to change and plan terms. Details are on the company's benefits site.