(USA) Senior Manager, Data Science- Supply Chain Strategy
Walmart · Bentonville, AR · 3 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$110k–$220k/yrFull-time
Position Summary
As a Senior Manager, Data Science – Supply Chain Strategy, you will help shape Walmart’s long-term eCommerce fulfillment strategy through high-impact supply chain initiatives focused on improving customer speed and reducing fulfillment cost. You will be expected to leverage AI as a practical enabler to improve speed, quality, and decision-making across analysis, synthesis, and communication.
What You'll Do
- Shape strategy for improving eCommerce speed across assortments and fulfillment flows.
- Evaluate economics, business cases, and strategic tradeoffs for new and evolving supply chain initiatives.
- Partner with business owners and cross-functional teams to understand flows, scale, adoption inputs, and operational considerations that inform strategy.
- Translate analytical findings and modeling outputs into clear strategic recommendations and business decisions.
- Help structure less-defined strategic questions into actionable paths forward grounded in data, economics, and business priorities.
- Leverage AI to improve speed, quality, and decision-making across analysis, synthesis, and communication.
- Influence decisions across Transportation, Supply Chain Operations, Marketplace/eCommerce, Technology, and Finance.
- Influence senior leaders on emerging strategic direction through clear, structured recommendations and sound judgment.
- Support capital planning, investment decisions, and business case development tied to strategic supply chain opportunities.
- Stay hands-on enough with data to pull and interpret your own data when needed.
What You’ll Bring
- Strong supply chain experience required.
- Experience building and driving strategic supply chain initiatives at scale.
- Experience developing business cases, evaluating economics, and assessing tradeoffs tied to strategic decisions.
- Experience in eCommerce fulfillment, transportation, parcel, aviation, fulfillment strategy, or marketplace-related environments at scale is a strong plus.
- Air transportation experience is a strong plus.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to understand modeling, analytics, and data science work deeply enough to translate outputs into strategy.
- Comfortable pulling your own data when needed and using data to support strategic recommendations.
- Track record of building and driving strategic initiatives end to end.
- Ability to drive alignment and execution across teams through influence rather than direct authority.
- AI fluency and curiosity, with a practical mindset toward leveraging AI to improve speed, quality, and decision-making.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum Qualifications:
- Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field.
- Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field.
- Option 3: 7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Data science, machine learning, optimization models.
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics.
- Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R.
- Supervisory experience.
- Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch).
Benefits
- 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.
- The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.