Walmart Insights and Analytics Manager 
Position Summary
The Walmart Insights and Analytics Manager is a strategic member of the Walmart Sales Team, serving as an embedded business partner who identifies growth opportunities, shapes sales strategy, and transforms data into a competitive advantage. The individual is expected to operate with an entrepreneurial mindset, proactively seeking opportunities, uncovering business risks, and influencing decisions that drive category growth.
Working side-by-side with the Walmart Sales Team, this position will continuously evaluate business performance, consumer trends, competitive activity, and Walmart data to identify actionable opportunities before they become apparent to others. The successful candidate will help shape sales initiatives—not simply support them—by bringing forward data-driven recommendations that influence customer strategy, assortment, pricing, merchandising, and category development.
The role owns the overall Walmart insights and analytics functions for the organization, expanding beyond today’s reporting responsibilities to build a best-in-class business intelligence capability. This includes leadership of Walmart Scintilla Charter analytics, enhancement of existing reporting and dashboard capabilities, AI-enabled insights, executive data storytelling, and continuous improvement of how analytics are leveraged throughout the organization.
Success in this role requires intellectual curiosity, business acumen, strategic thinking, and a passion for uncovering insights that create competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partner to the Walmart Sales Team
- Serve as an embedded member of the Walmart Sales organization, participating in business planning and customer strategy discussions.
- Develop a deep understanding of the Walmart business, category dynamics, competitive landscape, and evolving customer priorities.
- Operate as a proactive business partner by continuously monitoring business performance and identifying emerging opportunities and risks.
- Bring forward new ideas, analyses, and recommendations without waiting for requests from the sales team.
- Identify opportunities that lead directly to new sales initiatives, category expansion, merchandising opportunities, assortment optimization, pricing strategies, and customer growth.
- Influence business decisions through fact-based recommendations supported by meaningful analysis.
- Help establish priorities for the sales team by identifying where the greatest opportunities exist.
Walmart Analytics Leadership
- Own and lead the Walmart insights and analytics function.
- Enhance and expand the company’s existing Walmart reporting and analytical capabilities beyond current standard reporting.
- Improve existing analytics while developing new capabilities that provide deeper business insights.
- Standardize reporting processes while increasing automation, scalability, and analytical sophistication.
- Serve as the primary internal expert on Walmart business intelligence and analytical best practices.
Scintilla Charter Data Strategy & Integration
- Lead the implementation and utilization of Walmart Scintilla Charter data.
- Develop reporting standards, dashboards, and analytical frameworks utilizing Scintilla Charter.
- Partner directly with internal and external technology resources to build scalable reporting platforms and advanced analytical capabilities.
- Evaluate current analytics platforms and identify opportunities to improve functionality, efficiency, and usability.
- Recommend enhancements that increase automation and accelerate insight generation.
Business Intelligence & Data Storytelling
- Elevate the quality and effectiveness of customer-facing business reviews.
- Translate complex analyses into clear, compelling business stories that influence customer decisions.
- Develop intuitive visualizations that simplify complex information and highlight key business opportunities.
- Standardize presentation formats that improve consistency while increasing executive-level impact.
- Explore partnerships, technologies, and visualization tools that elevate the organization’s analytical capabilities.
- Ensure insights are communicated clearly, quickly, and in ways that drive action.
AI Integration & Advanced Analytics
- Evaluate and implement AI capabilities within existing analytics platforms.
- Identify opportunities for AI-assisted trend identification, opportunity sizing, anomaly detection, and automated insight generation.
- Continuously evaluate emerging analytical technologies that improve decision making and productivity.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business analytics, customer insights, category management, sales strategy, or commercial analytics.
- Experience working with Walmart data platforms, including Scintilla Charter and Retail Link, preferred.
- Strong analytical skills combined with demonstrated business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Engine, or similar business intelligence platforms.
- Strong understanding of AI-enabled analytics and emerging analytical technologies.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and relationship-building abilities.
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing business environment.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Increased utilization and business value of Walmart insights & analytics across the organization.
- Successful implementation and expansion of Walmart Scintilla Charter capabilities.
- Generation of actionable business opportunities that contribute to Walmart sales growth.
- Improved speed, quality, and impact of customer-facing insights and presentations.
- Increased adoption of AI-enabled analytics.
- Strong partnership with the Walmart Sales Team, resulting in proactive, insight-led decision making.
- Continuous improvement of the organization’s overall Walmart business intelligence capabilities.
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Walmart Insights and Analytics Manager
