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Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart, Bellevue, WA, United States


Manager Of Advanced Analytics, Seller Risk

Make your mark on the legacy of Walmart and come build the next great retail disruptor of global online marketplaces. With Walmart eCommerce, you will redefine the future of shopping and create innovative solutions alongside supportive teammates while influencing millions of shoppers daily. Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service. Marketplace is an integral part of Walmart's growth strategy and fast-paced innovation is embedded into every aspect of what we are building.
The Marketplace team is looking for a Manager of Advanced Analytics, Seller Risk to drive data-driven decision-making and help shape risk strategy across our seller ecosystem. This role will partner closely with Product, Business, and Risk teams to define success metrics, identify risk exposure, and design scalable controls that balance seller growth with marketplace integrity. You will be responsible for building a holistic view of seller risk performance across the lifecycle, including onboarding, vetting, and post-onboarding monitoring. You will leverage large-scale data and analytics to identify gaps, quantify risk and business impact, and influence policy and product decisions. This is a highly visible role, working closely with senior leaders (Directors/Sr. Directors) across business and product teams to drive meaningful impact on Marketplace performance.
You will make an impact by:
Contributing to a high-performance culture, delivering multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced and growing segment of Walmart eCommerce
Contributing to the development of strategy for reporting, testing, analyzing, and forecasting business and risk performance for Marketplace (3rd Party Sellers) segment
Identify and provide both tactical ad hoc insights and a strategic ongoing roadmap of deep analytics to inform seller risk management performance and polices
Delivering key data-driven business insights, working with cross-functional partners to translate risk insights into business / product strategy
Working with the Product Management team to find gaps in current products, potential risk controls, gathering requirements, creating data moratoriums, and designing state-of-the-art data products for helping business users.
Collaborate on roadmaps with the Product, Data Science, and other Analytics teams to understand growth and risk factors of new and future product releases.
Defining how teams measure success by developing user/business metrics
Working effectively with our Business, Product, Technology, and Data teams to understand our strategy and operating model and translate that into the right analytic approaches, data requirements and data models
Designing and conducting A/B and multi-variate tests by developing test plans, defining success metrics, analyzing, and transforming data into actionable insights
Operating with agility while effectively leveraging corporate structure to achieve goals
Gaining support from the broader Walmart enterprise by engaging with cross-functional teams, leadership, and key stakeholders
Automating data and analytic solutions at scale
You'll sweep us off our feet if
You have experience with commerce platforms, acquiring and seller risk management
You are a storyteller using data
You have experience solving new problems

digging in and finding answers
You operate with customer centricity at the forefront
You have experience working in multiple business areas / functions / segments
You have a strong understanding of statistics with applied experience on analyzing large data sets
You can collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
You have sound knowledge of managing data for experiments (sampling, labelling, EDA, etc.)
You have strong skills in Python, R, SQL, and Hive queries
You have experience transforming/automating data within cloud architectures (ie. Google Cloud Platform)
You have hands on experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau, R Shiny, and/or Looker
You can work effectively with internal stakeholders, including data scientists and data engineers
You are curious, proactive, and comfortable working in unstructured environments
You have experience driving understanding of customers and their interaction with products, through in-depth analyses of user behavior and engagement
You have a passion for working in a fast-paced agile environment
Qualifications
BA/BS in Business, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
4+ years of experience in data analysis or an analytical role, preferably in risk management
Strong organizational skills, a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the ability to lead projects, communicate effectively, and be a self-starter
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field
Background in Marketplace Analytics, Retail and/or eCommerce Analytics
Retail and/or eCommerce industry experience in a heavily data-driven environment
Risk management and application of analytics
How you'll thrive at Walmart:
Performance-based incentive awards
401k with company match
Stock purchase plan
Paid parental leave
Working alongside collaborative, innovative team members
Ability to grow and develop across several areas of the Fortune 1 organization
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
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