Senior Director, Advanced Analytics

Position Summary...

What youll do...

• Serve as a strategic analytics partner to senior functional and executive leaders (VPs SVPs) providing consulting expertise to shape business strategy innovation and customer outcomes.
• Translate customer and business needs into advanced analytics strategies articulating insights about current and future customers to inform experience design innovation and advocacy across channels.
• Lead advanced analytics initiatives for a moderately complex business area category or prototype ensuring analytical approaches and solutions align to enterprise priorities.
• Direct the development and deployment of data models across all analytics projects guiding the creation of new modeling algorithms by evaluating industry trends and emerging methodologies.
• Oversee productionready analytics solutions including complex algorithms and proofs of concept and present them to crossfunctional partners (e.g. Engineering Merchandising Category Management) to drive adoption and buyin.
• Evaluate and apply emerging analytics tools and techniques (e.g. machine learning natural language processing) to advance prototype development and scalable solutions.
• Guide data collection and analysis strategies ensuring analytical rigor appropriate team structures and iteration models to solve complex business challenges.
• Collaborate across analytics and business leadership aligning data and insight strategies to business priorities and category performance.
• Build and sustain strong crossfunctional partnerships across the organization (e.g. Categories Customer Experience Merchandising) ensuring alignment shared ownership and implementation of recommendations.
• Develop and coach analytics leaders and associates providing mentoring feedback and growth opportunities while identifying and building emerging capabilities needed for future success.
• Set strategic direction for the function by analyzing business objectives customer needs costs forecasts and operational performance while driving continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Attract develop and retain top analytics talent leading workforce planning succession strategies and capability development to maintain a highly skilled and engaged organization.
• Model and uphold Walmarts values embedding integrity ethics and the Open Door culture into all programs decisions and leadership practices.
• Leverage internal and external partnerships to advance business goals representing the organization in key stakeholder engagements and industry or community initiatives.

What youll bring...

• Executivelevel expertise in advanced analytics data science and modeling strategy within complex or matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders translating data and insights into clear actionable business strategies.
• Strong experience leading largescale analytics programs including model development algorithm implementation and production deployment.
• Deep knowledge of modern analytics techniques and tools including machine learning and emerging data science methodologies.
• Proven people leadership capability with experience developing senior leaders managers and highperforming analytics teams.
• Exceptional crossfunctional partnership skills with the ability to drive alignment and buyin across diverse business stakeholders.
• A strong strategic and customercentric mindset balancing innovation operational excellence and measurable outcomes.