Manager Advanced Analytics – Marketplace Seller Risk - California, United States - Walmart

Description

The Marketplace team is looking for a Manager of Advanced Analytics, Seller Risk Management who can use complex data to help our leaders and cross-functional teams make informed decisions, measure success, and influence policy to protect the integrity of the marketplace. You will be responsible for building out a holistic view of seller risk performance, identifying potential risks and supporting controls by leveraging analytics insights and tools (i.e., SQL/Hive/Hadoop/Cloud, Adobe Analytics, VisualIQ, Tableau/ThoughtSpot/Looker, etc.). Some of the key focus areas are onboarding and vetting risk strategies, design and measurement of risk controls that support seller growth while protecting buyers from bad actors. This is a highly visible role as you will be partnering with senior leaders (Directors/Sr Directors) on business and product teams to define and measure the success of Marketplace business.

You will make an impact by:

• Contributing to a high-performance culture delivering multiple projects, priorities in a fast-paced and growing segment of Walmart ecommerce business
• 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, Marketing, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years of experience in data analysis or an analytical capacity 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:

• BA or 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

This position can be based out of our Hoboken office, Sunnyvale, San Bruno, or Seattle office.

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