(USA) Senior Manager II, Data Science
Walmart

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Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Senior Manager II Data Science is a high impact role that supports our Sam's Club Supply Chain business with a variety of critical responsibilities.

Applied Business Acumen:

• Develop business cases and solutions for long-term supply chain strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to coordinate deliverables, dependencies, and timelines on the capital request process
• Provide thought leadership to Sam's omnichannel supply chain strategy, including defining business requirements and scope and breaking down data science tasks for the team to implement

Data Source Identification:

• Guide junior associates on approach to extracting and postprocessing data for model consumption and visualization, including best practices and code optimizations
• Experience with multiple data platforms, and pros/cons of each (e.g., Teradata, Informix (GLS), Azure Databricks, Google BigQuery)

Data Strategy:

• Work with the Product team on data migration strategy to ensure data availability needs are met for all modeling work
• Experience with data engineering to be able to extract, transform and load data for ad-hoc analyses

Problem Formulation:

• Translate business problems within an analytical framework and communicate requirements to junior data scientists, and support algorithm formulation and pseudocode development
• Proactively seeks opportunities for continuous improvement

Modeling Assessment, Validation, Deployment & Scaling:

• Review and deploy simulation and machine learning models and code to implement decision support tools for omnichannel supply chain
• Guide model selection to junior data scientists, including the selection of training vs. validation data sets, selection of appropriate machine learning models, feature engineering

Data Visualization:

• Support development of supply chain dashboards and user interfaces for internal support tools where interactivity is needed
• Create presentations for executive consumption, including using appropriate graphs to formulate the proper storyline

Code Development & Testing:

• Strong Python and SQL skills to be able to query data and develop prototype tools independently
• Manage code repository with documentation to streamline modular coding and new hire onboarding in GitHub

Others:

• Strong communication skills, develop relationships across all relevant teams, including merchandising, product, inventory, other supply chain teams, and continuously seek opportunities to provide deep analytical support
• Supervise and develop junior data scientists, including mentoring outside of the direct team

About the Team: The Sam's Club Supply Chain Team is focused on creating an incredible omnichannel shopping experience, bringing members great products at the best prices. Team members work cross-functionally with finance, operations, ecommerce, product, merchandising, membership and marketing. We are an agile group that comes from diverse backgrounds, yet are guided by the same north star: ensure supply chain is a competitive advantage for Sam's Club and deliver on our member promise to always expect something special.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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)

Primary Location...
950 ELM AVE, SAN BRUNO, CA 94066-3047, United States of America

About Sam's Club

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners.

Sam's Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.

Sam's Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity - unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

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• Parental Leave
• Pay during military service
• Paid time off - to include vacation, sick leave and parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability for when you can't work because of injury, illness, or childbirth

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