(Ind) Director, Data Analytics

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team:

Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work. Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs. Join us and you'll discover why our company is 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.

What you'll do:

As a Director of Data Analytics supporting Sam’s Club US business, you will be responsible for providing overall direction for different teams 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 and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce; recruiting, selecting, and nurturing talent; promoting Inclusiveness, building a great team culture, supporting mentorship and succession planning. Cultivates an environment where associates respect each other and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices.

You’ll make an impact through:

Understanding Business Context: Requires knowledge of Industry and environmental factors; Understanding of business processes and practices across two or more domains such as retail, omni channel commerce, marketing, sales, retail media, technology or product.

Tech. Problem Formulation: Requires knowledge of Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods

• Business understanding and Identification and recommendation of technical approaches to resolve business problems effectively using analytics.

• Thought Leadership: Accountable for developing and delivering business insights. Provide thought leadership and counsel to stakeholders in defining the problem statement, exploring viable solutions to address business questions. Translate business requirements into analytical strategies, initiatives, and projects, and align them to key business objectives.

• Establish Data Strategy: Requires knowledge of understanding of business value and relevance of data and data enabled insights / decisions; Appropriate application and understanding of data ecosystem including Data Management, Data Quality Standards and Data Governance, Accessibility, Storage and Scalability, etc.;

• Delivering solutions that scale

•  Drive and operationalize horizontal capabilities that drive scale and speed, including ensuring effective governance of data, effective use of the roadmap to drive visibility and prioritization and focus on self-service, automation, and AI.

• Developing high-performance team: Focus on development of a high performing team, ensuring training on technical skills, role modelling Walmart’s Leadership Expectations to inspire trust, and driving accountability, execution of prioritized work in the roadmap, and cross functional collaboration.

• Mentors team members on product roadmap and development.

What you'll bring

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you are:

• A team player with the courage to drive change through disruption while maintaining respect for the team and working across silos.

• Inquisitive, focused, organized, and an abstract thinker.

• Curious: You stay up to date with the latest technology developments in the data science community, and are excited to enable high-impact outcomes in the face of complex problems and large datasets

• Bold with a bias for action: You are a doer, thriving on the challenges of delivering hardened and optimized models as part of production systems

• Technically strong and high-performing individual with excellent communication skills, a proven analytical mindset, and customer focus.

• Industry knowledge of the retail space, with a keen interest in keeping up to date on the latest happenings in this space.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, analytics, data science, or related field required. Master’s degree preferred.

• 10+ years of professional experience in roles focused on adding value through building analytical solutions and products for complex, cross functional business problems.

• 6+ years of experience in leading High performing analytical teams. Leading teams in on/offshore model is a huge plus

• Knowledge of high-end analytical tools for forecasting, attribution, and marketing mix models

• Passion for understanding business challenges and delivering solid solutions.

• Experienced in taking complex data and information from reporting teams and synthesizing into meaningful insights and clear story for leadership in PowerPoint.

• Excellent planning and project management skills.

• A highly motivated leader with the ability to devise solutions in unstructured situations.

• Succeeds in fast-moving environment, effectively balancing a variety of fast-turn deliverables, working with various constituents.

• Retail industry or Subscription Business Model experience will be a plus

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 5 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 3: 7 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. 2 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India