(USA) Senior Manager, Data Science

Senior Manager, Data Science at Walmart Fulfillment Services

Are you passionate about data science and looking to make a significant impact as a strategic partner across the organization? Walmart Fulfillment Services is actively seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science professional to join our team. In this role, you will work across forecasting, inventory management, and allocation, helping us drive business insights and growth. You'll thrive and succeed in a dynamic startup environment, balancing ambiguity and competing priorities to influence strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, Data Science, you will:

• Design, model, develop, and implement advanced models and solutions for strategic planning and execution.
• Execute analytical capabilities to assist business leaders in understanding optimization opportunities and metrics.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to address problems, create efficiencies, and meet high organizational standards.
• Engage regularly with software engineering teams and business leadership.
• Research, develop, and deploy models that will inform inventory placement and allocation.
• Work with specialized scientists in areas such as forecasting, recommendation, transportation, meta-heuristics, market analysis, and integer programming.
• Drive modeling and technical design for complex business problems alongside engineering and operations teams.
• Develop scalable optimization, mathematical programming, and heuristic methods to solve transportation challenges.
• Lead complex modeling analyses to facilitate key business decisions and set new policies.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• A PhD in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field. (Or a Master’s Degree plus 3+ years of relevant industry or academic experience)
• 3+ years of experience building machine learning or optimization models, or developing algorithms for business applications.
• Expertise in applied optimization methods.
• Experience in deploying optimization models into production systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++, or Java.
• Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and resilience in an evolving work environment.
• A personal interest in developing and researching new technologies with significant customer impact.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a diverse team.

Live Our Values

• Culture Champion: Uphold Walmart values, fostering a culture of accountability, social responsibility, and integrity.
• Servant Leadership: Demonstrate humility and transparency, consistently supporting team members.
• Embrace Change: Foster a growth mindset, encouraging learning, innovation, and resilience.
• Digital Transformation: Implement continuous improvements and leverage new digital tools.
• Customer Focus: Deliver business results while prioritizing customer needs using EDLP and EDLC models.
• Strategic Thinking: Utilize data, analytics, and customer insights to shape strategies.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Attract and retain diverse team members, building a high-performing team.
• Collaboration & Influence: Build strong relationships and communicate effectively to inspire commitment.
• Talent Management: Develop talent, empower associates, and recognize contributions.

Compensation and Benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay alongside performance-based bonuses and comprehensive benefits for a balanced life. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), stock purchase, company-paid life insurance, paid time off, parental and family care leave, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. Additionally, you'll receive PTO that exceeds paid sick leave laws, if applicable. Learn more about benefits and eligibility on One.Walmart.

Location and Salary

The annual salary ranges for this position are as follows:

• Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279/Bellevue, Washington US-11075: $132,000.00 - $264,000.00
• San Bruno, California US-08848: $143,000.