Data Scientist - Core Intelligence

Position Summary.

What you'll do.

About the Team:

At Walmart, we pride ourselves for knowing our customers and connecting with them better than any other company. We interact with our customers across more categories than any company in the world.

The Core Intelligence team which is a part of the Metrics and Measurement team in the Customer Org at Walmart analyzes every store trip, web/ app visit, service interaction, search, click, purchase, survey responses etc. to help deliver the easiest shopping experience both digitally and physically. We are a team comprised of decision science practitioners that work together to uncover the why behind the customer behavior while measuring the outcomes from a customer and competitive lens.

As a Data Scientist in the team, you will have the unique opportunity to leverage the power of technology, big data and analytics to improve the lives of the 100M+ households that shop at Walmart every year. This role will specifically support executive reporting and insights.

Our ideal candidate is a sharp, thoughtful, and collaborative problem solver, who enjoys identifying key business levers and challenges, and then building data products and analytics frameworks to enable strategic decision making. You will have direct visibility with exec leadership team and will drive initiatives to support the rapid growth of our online and omni-channel customer base. You will work closely with your peers and cross functional partners to help drive Weekly, Monthly Business Reviews, provide business relevant actionable insights, dashboards and KPIs with a robust foundation.

You also have a strong combination of business acumen and data science background, as well as an intense hunger to make a significant business impact by owning and driving business outcomes.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

• Well balanced skills – People have trouble pinning you down. Both business and technical/ data teams claim you as their own. You are equal parts technical and functional. You are equally comfortable and effective in persuading both technical and business audience
• Great communicator – You’re capable of telling the story behind the data and resulting insights to exec audience and you are a pro at building slide decks that can simplify any complex story. You can customize your communication style based on stakeholders. You can guide and coach junior associates on story types, structures, and techniques based on context.
• Business acumen – You are able to anticipate the needs of business stakeholders in the relevant business context
• Analytics expertise – You excel at designing and building new and impactful KPIs and metrics to measure customer and competitive dynamics. You are equally strong at getting into the weeds and making sure that the data needed to support these metrics is consistent and available. You are very comfortable rolling up your sleeves when needed and writing complex SQL queries for quick prototyping and helping junior associates debug their work and raise the bar.
• Data Visualization – You are a pro at leveraging visualization to build compelling stories based on context to integrate multiple pieces of information into cohesive insights.

You’ll make an impact by.

• Partner with C-suite, corporate strategy, marketing, merchandising, research, product, finance and engineering organizations to drive outcomes
• Analyze and maintain customer KPIs and metrics to identify cause-effect relationships between business actions and behavioral & attitudinal customer outcomes
• Drive the development of quantitative analysis, designing new KPIs, ad hoc reports, and predictive models to support decision making
• Design and execute experiments to achieve business objectives and drive optimization
• Partner with Data and tech Engineers to define data and tracking requirements
• Translate data insights into actions and recommendations and self-serve products
• Produce visuals (charts, infographics) and presentations to clearly and effectively communicate findings to stakeholders and leadership
• Work closely with the Research, Data and Business Intelligence teams

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL – You are an expert at writing complex SQL queries to surface insights from vast amounts of customer and transaction data
• R/Python – Expertise in at least 1 scripting language
• Storytelling – You are able to translate insights into business relevant recommendations and get stakeholder buy-in

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 2
years' experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 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, Master’s degree 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, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)

Primary Location.702 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America