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Manager, Business Analysis And Insights

Walmart Canada Corp

Mississauga

On-site

CAD 91,000 - 127,000

Full time

20 days ago

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Job summary

A major retail corporation in Mississauga seeks a Manager for Business Analysis and Insights. The role involves driving strategic decision-making through data analysis, optimizing business operations, and developing KPIs and dashboards. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in advanced analytics tools such as SQL and Tableau. This role contributes directly to enhancing business performance and driving efficiency across the organization.

Qualifications

Requires ability to gather data, identify root causes, and design solutions.
Experience in KPI development and dashboard creation is necessary.
Strong planning skills to define steps, milestones, and deliver results.

Responsibilities

Lead development and execution of strategic business operations.
Monitor operational processes using dashboards and KPIs.
Collaborate with Technology and Product teams.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Change leadership

Project management and planning expertise

Innovation and automation mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related discipline

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Position Summary

The Manager Business Analysis and Insights plays a pivotal role in leveraging data analysis to drive strategic decision-making, optimize processes, and improve overall business performance through data-driven insights.

What you’ll do

The Manager Business Analysis and Insights leads the development and execution of strategic approaches to manage and optimize business operations. This role reports directly to the Senior Director, Pricing and is part of the Pricing Leadership Team, playing an active role in guiding decisions and actions that impact the Pricing Team and overall Price Strategy for the organization. This role requires an ambitious individual who is not afraid to challenge the status quo and drive meaningful change. The Manager utilizes advanced analytical tools and techniques to collect, organize, and interpret data, identifying trends and anomalies to uncover opportunities for improvement. Responsibilities include conducting ad-hoc analysis and deep dives into specific areas to address immediate concerns or support strategic initiatives.

In addition to data analysis, the role establishes key performance indicators (KPIs), develops dashboards to monitor operational processes, and creates data visualizations that effectively communicate findings. The Manager provides actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders to drive operational efficiencies, optimize workflows, and enhance business outcomes. Strong planning and project management skills are essential, including the ability to define steps, milestones, timelines, and deliver results on schedule. The Manager will direct work for themselves and potentially other organizational and third party support, ensuring alignment and accountability across initiatives.

This position requires collaboration at all levels of the organization—from VPs to analysts—and close partnership with Technology and Product teams. The Manager must demonstrate strong analytical skills to gather the right data, identify root causes, and design solutions through to completion. Additional responsibilities include managing competitive intelligence relationships, leveraging competitive data to inform strategies, and leading all marketplace and eCommerce pricing initiatives in partnership with Technology. The role may also involve forecasting and predictive analytics to anticipate challenges or opportunities, assess capacity requirements, and analyze resource allocation. Building strong internal and external relationships, driving automation and innovation, and staying abreast of industry trends remain critical components of success.

Leadership Expectations

Respect the Individual

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

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.
Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers

Delivers results while putting the customer first and 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 broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Strive for Excellence

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related discipline or 5+ years of relevant retail or pricing analytics experience
Change leadership: Comfortable leading teams, facilitating meetings, challenging the status quo and driving continuous improvement
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: Ability to gather the right data, identify root causes, and design solutions through to completion
Proficiency with advanced analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Power BI); Python preferred
Experience in KPI development and dashboard creation
Project management and planning expertise: Skilled at defining steps, milestones, timelines, and delivering on deadlines
Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Able to work effectively across all levels of the organization and partner with Technology and Product teams
Experience with competitive intelligence and pricing strategies, including managing vendor relationships
Knowledge of forecasting and predictive analytics
Innovation and automation mindset: Comfortable identifying opportunities to streamline processes and leverage technology
Up-to-date on retail and eCommerce industry trends