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Walmart Canada · 2 days ago

Senior Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives

San Bruno, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$141K/yr - $234K/yr

2+ years exp

Walmart Canada is a leading retailer, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Marketplace Strategic Initiatives. The role involves influencing stakeholders, developing business strategies, and leveraging data analytics to support business decisions and financial management.

DeliveryRetailShopping

Responsibilities

Present to and influence team members, customers, and clients, conveying complex information clearly and accurately and addressing ambiguity in a constructive manner

Assemble and prepare reports, materials, and storylines that have a structure and logical flow and are based on relevant, fact-based information

Seek and provide constructive feedback, anticipate needs/questions, and respond appropriately

Build, maintain, and enhance internal and external partnerships

Identify and address additional partner needs and educate them on value creation

Communicate with other individuals or teams to solve shared problems

Identify how changes in business strategy impact talent and recruiting strategies

Consult regularly with leaders of business unit(s) to advise on strategic decisions

Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve business issues

Develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings

Demonstrate functional knowledge of the business unit/organization being supported

Translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and align to the overall business strategy

Recommend new processes and ways of working

Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify and assess strategy choices

Provide advice and support to improve business and financial understanding and awareness within the business

Monitor, analyze, and translate data to provide information and evidence to support business strategies and requirements

Explain financial management reports

Analyze the varying approaches to expense and budget management

Leverage data analysis tools

Develop and test hypotheses

Use data to influence work

Build and present insights

Identify, implement, and drive technology change within scope of work

Use visualization tools to represent data and construct stories to influence decisions

Use customer analytics for forecasting purposes

Maintain and organize all customer analytics portfolio-related data

Interpret customer analytics results and present findings to management

Participate in the deployment of web-based surveys used to collect customer data

Create business analysis reports from customer analytics data extracts

Maintain and organize all business portfolio-related data

Document performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities

Research business-related data and generate and interpret basic analytics

Assist in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to reflect business performance

Prepare annual baseline plan budgets, broken down by time period, task, and cost account

Use schedules to prepare cash flow forecasts for projects based on completion status of different project milestones

Create reports on the progress of project schedules, costs, and scopes

Compare present status to baselines and forecast future trends using earned value analyses

Use statistical methods to develop project cost and time estimate ranges quantified by risk probabilities and confidence levels

Track risks and change risk items over the course of projects according to the risk management plans

Understand financials and how product pricing can impact financials

Research company history and experience with retail markets and channels

Document retail activities and issues related to major trends and directions

Discuss existing and planned retail approaches for assigned area of specialization

Cite sources of information

Explain rationales for major initiatives

Identify revenue generation opportunities and plans, make recommendations, and execute for less-complex categories

Ensure delivery against business goals by identifying potential risks to the business

Supports recommendations around category strategic approaches

Make recommendations on best practices and process improvements

Qualification

Data analysisStatistical analysisProject managementBusiness analysisVisualization toolsCustomer analyticsCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Master's degree or the equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering Management, or a related field and 2 years of experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering Management, or a related field and 4 years of experience in Business Management, Marketing, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area

Experience documenting project requirements in PRDs and BRDs using JIRA tickets

Experience preparing visual stories and data documentations using Tableau, R, and PowerBI

Experience compiling project plans to highlight budgets, timelines, and scopes of projects through MS Project

Experience executing statistical analysis of data to identify key trends using Regression Analysis in R and Excel

Experience with value stream mapping of end-to-end processes using Visio

Experience charting visual presentations to present new projects using MS PowerPoint

Benefits

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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.