Analytics Manager Walmart Inc

Job description

A mutually rewarding experience.

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About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

This is a sales support, analytical & functional leadership role. The position of Analytics Manager Walmart Inc. is a very important forecasting, analytical and reporting role with strategic responsibility. This position faces a wide range of challenges and responsibilities providing deliverables internally to the Sales teams, Sales Directors, Analytics & Ops Director, and Sales VP to drive knowledge, efficiency, and actionable insights. The Analytics Manager’s main responsibilities are to ensure forecasting, operational & reporting excellence to drive the Walmart Inc. business, while solving a variety of ad hoc problems as they arise daily.

Reporting to Director Operations & Analytics, this is part of the Walmart Inc. Sales Channel.

As the Analytics Manager – Walmart Inc., this role is a responsible for:

• Lead period forecasting process for Sam’s Club

• Actioning to identify trends and implement change

• Collaborating closely with account team for improved forecast inputs

• Collaborate with national demand planning to signal correct production activities

• Play foundational roll in account team annual planning process

• Providing thought leadership, coordination, and integration of data and reporting for the Walmart Inc. Operations & Analytics team

• Functional expert in retail link, software vendor management, Nielsen and Power BI

• Ability to envision need for and create efficient and meaningful reporting

• Guiding the interpretation, use, and implications of analyses to improve business decisions and customer solutions

• Customizing analyses as appropriate for customer and company

• Continuously improving and expanding Walmart Inc. analytical approach and capabilities.

• Ensuring the objectivity and integrity (quantity, quality, timeliness) of analyst deliverables

• Being a critical communication link between analysis and team to provide feedback on such areas as customer performance, issues, learning/observations/analysis, and problems, and to deliver recommended solutions.

• Ongoing ad-hoc reporting and analysis from Director & Channel VP

Education & Professional Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree – Required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Business analysis experience across multiple functions

• Syndicated data analysis experience (Retail Link, IRI or AC Nielsen; Scan, Panel, Spectra, etc.)

• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office applications (Excel, Access, PPT, Power BI)

• Demonstrated forecasting expertise

• Willingness to travel (up to 5% of time)

• Ability to pull & consolidate information from multiple sources

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years customer experience

• 3 years CPG experience

• Masters Degree

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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