Why you should apply for a job with Walmart:
- 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.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the Role
We're growing our Pricing team, where we combine an understanding of technology, economics, and customer behavior to build dynamic pricing algorithms, develop pricing strategies to grow our business, and create structures and incentives to manage e-commerce pricing at scale. The new Pricing Operations team will manage day-to-day item pricing by monitoring our algorithms and partnering with our Merchants to make changes where needed. In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage your strategic, analytical and people skills to stand up a new team that creates impact on our business by effectively managing pricing at scale, and leads a wide breath of initiatives to improve our pricing capabilities. This role will be focused on Walmart.com.
Essential Functions
An individual must be able to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without a reasonable accommodation.
- Identify, scope, and lead high impact projects that directly affect business performance
- Evaluate business and operational problems, manage and conduct data-driven analysis to assess potential solutions, and develop strategic recommendations that address the root cause of problems
- Leverage data to understand trends and identify opportunities to improve pricing systems and algorithms
- Monitor key performance indicators and metrics for special and recurring project, and proactively identify opportunities to improve performance
- Build and maintain reports than enable our business and operations partners to effectively manage price performance
- Manage a team to effectively deliver on multiple time-sensitive projects by establishing timelines, training, ensuring access to systems and tools, etc.
- Lead discussions with business and operations partners to ensure utilization of analytical and pricing systems
- Provide supervision and development opportunities for associates hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.
- Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.
Travel
Occasional domestic travel is necessary to perform one or more essential functions of this position.
Entry Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or related field and 1 year's experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 3 years' experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Business, Analytics, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in an analytical and strategic role, including consulting, corporate strategy, technology; retail or e-commerce experience preferred
- Excellent business and communication skills with proven ability to influence in cross-functional environment.
- Expertise in quantitative and analytical problem-solving, with demonstrated ability in developing actionable insights from large datasets
- Ability manage multiple, time-sensitive deliverables and competing priorities
- Consulting experience or other client-facing professional services a plus
- Knowledge of SQL preferred, Python or R a plus
- Knowledge of Tableau or similar data visualization software preferred
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Business, Marketing, or related field and 2 years' experience in merchandising, retail pricing, sourcing, operations management, finance, marketing, or related area OR 4 years' experience in merchandising, retail pricing, sourcing, operations management, finance, marketing, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Microsoft OfficeMasters: Accounting, Masters: Economics, Masters: Marketing
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.