Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives - Food

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What you'll do...

The Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service.

The Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Food is responsible for leading Measurement, Analytics, Synthesis, and Storytelling for critical initiatives contributing to the growth of the Food division within Walmart Marketplace. This role will partner closely with a range of internal stakeholders to analyze the business across multiple data sources, identify opportunities, create reports and dashboards, and communicate findings that will shape our overall category strategy. You will partner with Seller Planning to support budgeting and forecasting; you will work with strategy teams to diagnose the business and develop actionable insights; and you will support partner teams as they bring new capabilities and experiences to our customers and seller community. If you are intellectually curious, passionate about diving deep into the data, and are a pro at translating raw information into a compelling business narrative, this opportunity is for you!

• You have strong analytical skills and are able to find the signal in the noise to identify business problems and opportunities.
• You are able to conceptualize, visualize, and present quantitative analyses, translating data into business recommendations
• You have experience working for a retail marketplace and understand the uniqueness and the importance of creating a best-in-class experience for both sellers and consumers
• You have experience analyzing retail categories (Food is a strong plus) and understand how to articulate both category-specific and cross-category opportunities that can unlock future growth
• You’re highly analytical and have experience both refining existing reporting and developing new reports and dashboards
• You can anticipate the types of questions partners, leaders, and stakeholders will ask, then leverage data to tell both the “what” and the “why.”
• You know how to build and strengthen cross-functional partnerships
• You’re organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple projects simultaneously
• You are curious and act with a sense of urgency
• You have high standards and can hold project contributors accountable
• You have experience driving organizational change, and understand what it takes to get traction
• You’re stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale

• Reporting: Monitoring business KPIs and communicating category and seller performance drivers with scalable tools and systems
• Supporting category teams: Collecting data requirements; designing and developing queries; maintaining automated, user-friendly visualizations (reports, dashboards, etc.)
• Empowering cross-functional stakeholders and decision makers with timely and accurate marketplace data and insights
• Partnering with Seller Planning to analyze past performance, build category and seller budgets, and develop forecasts
• Providing deep-dive analysis for follow up questions from weekly and monthly business reviews
• Ensuring strong data governance, documentation, and communication of analyses and methodologies
• Developing business cases and strategies for new initiatives: digging into data and applying logic to understand adoption and growth trends.
• Drive Go-to-Market Approach for New Launches: Collaborate with seller marketing, communications, account managers, business development, and others to identify ways to make change ‘sticky’ and maximize the benefits of our new initiatives for marketplace sellers.
• Operating with Excellence: Set an example in managing to KPIs, developing high quality presentations, and developing yourself and others. Champion change and evolution, persuade through use of data and facts, demonstrate sufficient gravitas, and inspire and motivate others.

• 6 years’ experience in data science, management consulting, finance, or similar data-driven field.
• Advanced user of Excel
• Experience creating dashboards using data visualization tools (Looker, ThoughtSpot, Tableau)
• Experience leveraging SQL to pull raw data when existing reporting is not sufficient
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to synthesize simple and impactful stories from complex analyses.
• E-Commerce and/or E-Commerce Marketplace experience strongly preferred.
• Category analysis or strategy experience strongly preferred (Food is a bonus but not required).
• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to pay attention to detail while handling multiple simultaneous projects
• Experience with project management and cross-functional stakeholder management
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional team to drive business positive outcomes.
• Assertive, adaptable, and demonstrates initiative in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field (economics, statistics, mathematics, finance, etc.) OR
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration PLUS 3 years’ experience in data & analytics, management consulting, investment banking, or similar data-driven field
• Experience pulling and analyzing data using business intelligence tools (SQL, Looker, Tableau preferred)
• Experience developing analytical models using spreadsheet software, retrieving inputs from relevant sources (pivot tables, complex formulas, macros, etc.)
• Experience visualizing data and insights (dashboards; presentations; charts; data models)