Job Summary - Looking for Staff Data Scientist to Manage and Lead Analytics projects for the integrated Supply Chain Strategy. This is the team that is responsible for providing an end-to-end supply chain strategy for Walmart US for the next 10 years. After gaming multiple supply chain scenarios and assessing their impact, we are also in-charge of creating a blue-print to get to the optimal supply chain design for business goals to be achieved.

About the Team –

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations.Being human-led is our true disruption.

What You'll do -

• Manage and execute entire projects from start to finish including cross-functional project management, data gathering and manipulation, analysis and modeling, and communication of insights and recommendations.

• Demonstrate a high degree of originality and creativity when developing solutions to improve existing business processes within supply chain utilizing methods such as statistical modeling and optimization.

• Work independently to manage projects while ensuring deadlines are met and data output is accurate and appropriate for the business. Must also be able to deal with ambiguity and make independent decisions about what data and approach is best for the task at hand.

• Build scalable and complex supply chain models and processes to optimize supply chain strategies with goals to deliver excellent customer experience while balancing operating cost and asset efficiency.

• Identify areas of opportunity and drive results partnering with cross functional partners

• Develop relationships with Wal-Mart functional areas to identify best practices, solicit input/data, coordinate inter-disciplinary initiatives and to gather support for recommendations.

• Obtain alignment from relevant business partners and management support for projects and lead discussions to drive change

• Effectively organize, assemble, and use all available resources when given a project to ensure success.

• Communicates clearly and persuasively via email, verbally, and presentations. Tailor communications to the appropriate level audience and modify approach as needed for maximum impact. Excels in communicating with individuals and groups and to all levels in the organization.

• Through this role you will work with multiple supply chain business teams to proactively identify, assess cost saving/service level improvement opportunities

• You will come up with inferences through your models that will enable appropriate policy design across various areas of the supply chain. · You will layout multiple scenarios and perform sensitivity analysis across them 

• You will work with other Data Scientists and Engineers to productionize and scale your models where necessary.

• You will guide and create compelling stories/documents/visuals to influence key stakeholders in their decision-making.

• You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members in the area of supply chain once you gain enough domain expertise.

What You'll bring -

• Strong analytical acumen with technical expertise in data mining, machine learning, statistical analysis and deep learning

• Expert in SQL, R and Python. Experience using machine learning and deep learning libraries .

• Experience in using data visualization tools like Tableau and Looker and be able to drive powerful insights.

• Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, and/or Spark)

• Good knowledge on deploying models into production.

• Experience in operating from a cloud environment such as Google Could Platform or Microsoft Azure.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, plus ability to work with cross functional teams of technical and non-technical members.

• Strong ability to understand the business and have good stakeholder management capabilities.

• Experience of working in cross-functional environment and leading or mentoring teams.

About Walmart Global Tech -

From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth, and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmart's scale enables us to have an. No other company has the reach of Walmart, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.

Flexible, Hybrid Work -

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits -

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.