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- 54%of reviewers say women and men are treated equally at Walmart.
All eligible associates have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%.
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Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Walmart Media Group (WMG) is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst to support our efforts at enterprise transformation connecting teams from omni-merchandising, marketing and media to act as One Walmart. We need a rockstar that have a solid understanding of merchandising, retail analytics, and how to gather the right info to drive business outcomes. This critical role will foster integration and high-fidelity understanding between WMG and the emerging Omni-Merchant organization. The ideal candidate are intellectually curious, analytical, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented self-starters. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics and data analytics with a deep understanding of retail industry. Deep knowledge and experience of Walmart is a big plus.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct retail sales analysis to support WMG's business decisions
- Gather data using internal and external tools and synthesize it to tell a cohesive story
- Juggle a list of urgent and important requests, investigations, and analyses and prioritize by business impact
- Provide guidance to WMG Sales team by analyzing and mining retail data to identify areas of opportunities and gaps to support their work with omni merchants
- Partner with WMG Sales and Sales Operations to establish reporting processes and tools to ensure alignment and consistency
- Pull appropriate data and prepare reporting in support of external advertiser key meetings and negotiations
- Pull appropriate data and prepare reporting for internal planning sessions and to support cross-functional business cases
- Be the data master and WMG's source of truth across all of Walmart's business units within Merchandising
- Partner with Data Governance to ensure proper use and sourcing of information; partner with WMG Analytics to stay abreast of current methods and tools
- Attend weekly Merchandising department meetings and partner with Merchandising Operations
- Teach and mentor others on how to use Walmart's retail data systems to help grow their business acumen
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years' experience working with retail data, preferably Walmart data
- Deep experience pulling data from multiple sources, creating reports and dashboards in Excel, Tableau and/or Looker, and delivering it to cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes
- Strong written communication, presentation and EQ skills
- Problem solver and ability to roll up sleeves to get things done
- Ability to perform and adjust to a constantly changing, ambiguous environment
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working within Walmart's Merchandising org
- Experience working with Walmart internal data systems
About Walmart Media Group
At Walmart, we enable the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. As stewards of our company's brand promise, Save Money. Live Better, we work alongside some of the most talented people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us each week. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth digital business within the largest company in the world. We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable and we have Walmart's sales data to prove it. Walmart Media Group wins when suppliers invest in digital media to drive growth; Walmart and our suppliers win when your digital expertise helps sell more goods online and offline. Growth in our digital advertising business is key to Walmart's overall omni-channel success.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Need convincing? Let's review Walmart's best features:
- 54%of reviewers say women and men are treated equally at Walmart.
All eligible associates have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%.
The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work.
Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service.