Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join our team as a pivotal leader where you'll drive strategic decision-making through advanced analytics in our assortment transformation efforts. You'll lead project scopes, develop data models and tools, and implement production-ready algorithms while fostering collaboration across teams and developing talent. Your expertise will help shape Walmart's assortment strategies, ensuring we meet customer needs and achieve business objectives.

The Director of Assortment Optimization Analytics, you’ll develop and own algorithms, tools, and processes that guide assortment strategy & decisions for Walmart store and eCommerce businesses. You’ll leverage your business acumen and technical skillset to provide thought leadership to your team and business stakeholders ensuring we build scalable solutions to optimize our assortment across all categories and channels.  You’ll also work closely with merchant, product, engineering and data science teams partners to identify gaps, set vision, build & launch scalable solutions rapidly. Prior experience in retail analytics roles with a focus on space optimization, clustering, regression analysis, segmentation required.

What You'll Do...

• Business Partnerships: You'll provide consulting expertise and act as a subject matter expert to senior functional leadership, articulating the needs of current and future customers to drive business decisions.
• Project Scope: You'll lead all advanced analytics projects for all business areas, category, or prototype across platforms, ensuring solution and analytical plans reflect business priorities.
• Model Development: You'll lead the development and implementation of data models for all projects, aligning modeling solutions with business priorities and strategies.
• Proof of Concept and Prototype: You'll direct the implementation of production-ready complex algorithms, develop testing and validation methodologies, and present production-ready algorithms to gain cross-functional buy-in.
• Data Collection and Analysis: You'll direct the analysis of business issues, define data analysis strategies based on business priorities, and partner with leadership across all analytics functions.
• Collaboration: You'll partner with functional leadership and other cross-functional leaders to develop consultative solutions, ensure buy-in for recommendations, and maintain and develop relationships with external business partners and vendors.
• People Development: You'll ensure associates receive learning and development opportunities, coach team members to enhance skills and work performance, and identify new and emerging skills needed by Advanced Analytics associates.

You'll Sweep Us off Our Feet If You...

• Have extensive experience in a senior role in advanced analytics, preferably in a merchandising or retail environment.
• Possess strong analytical skills and can lead advanced analytics projects and develop data models.
• Have excellent communication skills and have a proven ability to influence and persuade others.
• Can expertly develop and implement proof of concept and prototypes, and direct data collection and analysis.
• Are committed to promoting and supporting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data analysis, data documentation, data quality monitoring and improvement.
• Strong understanding of organization’s needs and ability to drive change

• Strong leadership and communication skills as well as the ability to influence executive stakeholders and understand their points of view 

• Strong customer focus and obsession with quality
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment

Benefits & Perks: 

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. 

   

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. 

Who We Are 

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com 

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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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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.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 5 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 7 years'
experience in data analytics or related field.
4 years' supervisory experience OR experience leading cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Cluster analysis techniques, simulation, inferential statistics, neural networks, or data mining techniques

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America