Position Summary...

Reporting to the Director, Pricing Strategy and Analytics, Senior Manager, Data Analytics Pricing Strategy is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and communication of Walmart’s pricing strategies across all business units in partnership with the Price Activation and Execution team. Specifically, this role will coach a team of price strategy managers who conduct category revenue growth management initiatives across pricing, promotions, trade investment, and channel strategy for strategic businesses across Walmart. The Senior Manager drives profitable growth through the EDLP Category Conversion program for Walmart Canada and is accountable to ensuring the delivery and tracking of all projects occurs on time. Further, the Senior Manager will be responsible for managing engagements with DMM and merchants, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

What you'll do...

Strategic Planning: Senior Manager, Data Analytics- Pricing Strategy develops and implements comprehensive pricing and promotional strategies that align with organizational goals and customer expectations.
The role requires leading and mentoring a team of analysts, data scientists, and technology experts to deliver on data analytics initiatives. Responsibilities include guiding the team in building proof of concepts, performing data analysis, developing analytical models, and recommending strategies. Additionally, the Senior Manager manages user acceptance testing for tools, improves testing documentation, and troubleshoots issues to ensure business continuity and user adoption.

Leadership: Manage program process, timelines, and status reporting to executives. Coach and mentor a team of strategy and analytic managers to develop and deliver strategies, recommendations, thought leadership through analytic support and content based on prioritized projects across the operating year.

Corporate Pricing Intelligence: Support stakeholders like DMMs, merchants, and vendors with portfolio insights and forecasts. Own regular communication channels by defining scope, requirements, and key success metrics. This includes performing analysis, translating data into implications, and answering business questions (hypothesis testing, story building, and communication to stakeholders)

Price Optimization: Drive price leadership by continuously ensuring analytic frameworks, models, and processes are best-in-class across the competitive landscape. Continuously calibrate standards and guardrails to ensure our pricing standards drive merchandising strategic objectives. This includes but is not limited to analytic models used to define and calibrate item segmentations and pricing and promotional guardrails
Leadership Expectations:

Performance Reporting: Control and publish pricing and promotional metrics, scorecards, and competitive insights to the organization that monitor and measure pricing strategies to targets. Prepare detailed reports on pricing strategies and their impact, and present these to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Inform Product Strategy and Data Science team on business requirements product roadmap and backlog feature enhancement requirements for ongoing business needs. Participate in UAT testing for pricing tools and feature enhancements before deploying to broader business stakeholders

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Leverage and partner with US as well as internationally to share best practices. Be the subject matter expert in Walmart Canada, build expert knowledge among cross-functional business areas to support the implementation of projects. Manage multiple high priority projects at the same time, drive meetings to reach an agreement and decide next steps, align on tasks and ownership, deliver tasks owed on time or follow up with owners to deliver project on time.

Coaching: Hire and nurture talent to build a high performance team; manage analytic providers (internal and  external), their budgets, including the negotiation of deliverables, day-to-day service agreements, and the management of issues and additional ad hoc needs. Ensure team members are enabled to deliver and have resources to support both internal strategies as well as merchandising requirements.

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications:

• Minimum education required: Post-Secondary Education In Arts / Business / Science / Engineering or related field

• Minimum 7 years of increasing responsibility in CPG/Retail advanced analytics/data science and product implementation

• Strong at influencing stakeholders through data-based storytelling and succinct presentations

• Methodical and strategic thinker who deploys sound frameworks to problem solve and solution concepts for testing and development

• Loves connecting the dots through data and motived to develop technology to augment business processes and decision making

• Results oriented leadership style with a keen ability to motivate a team to operate in an agile environment and act with urgency

• Strong comfort analyzing various data sets (loyalty data, syndicated data such as NielsenIQ, webscrapped data, internal sales and finance data, shopper panel data, etc)

• Very resourceful

• Attitude to learn new and challenging work

• Strong working knowledge of AC Nielsen, etc

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Minimum Qualifications...

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

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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