Senior Manager, Merchant Analytics

Walmart Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for Merchant Analytics to lead cost analytics and vendor management initiatives. This pivotal role involves strategy development, execution, and team leadership to optimize costing and profitability. You will oversee vendor negotiations and implement new processes, ensuring alignment with business goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to foster collaboration across various departments. Join a dynamic team that values continuous improvement and innovation in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years in merchandising or cost analytics with leadership experience.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost analytics and vendor management programs to enhance performance.
• Oversee category strategy and vendor negotiations for cost reductions.
• Collaborate across teams to achieve project goals and business objectives.

Skills

Cost Analytics

Vendor Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Thinking

Leadership

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

Education

Post-Secondary Education in Business / Science / Engineering

Tools

NielsenIQ

Job description

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Position Summary: The Senior Manager, Merchant Analytics leads cost analytics and vendor management programs, delivering insights and solutions to enhance business performance. This role involves strategy development, execution, and leadership of a team to achieve optimal costing, profitability, and category growth.

What You'll Do: The Senior Manager, Merchant Analytics leads strategy and planning for cost analytics, aligning with senior leadership on approach, prioritization, and execution. This role may oversee the implementation of new processes or improvements, supporting an annual cost analytics program. The position also leads vendor investment programs and complex vendor negotiations to deliver significant investments and cost reductions.

Overseeing category strategy and annual negotiation processes, the Senior Manager ensures alignment with business goals, monitors post-implementation performance, and implements corrective actions. This role may involve leading working sessions for new processes and complex categories, developing negotiation approaches, and ensuring the achievement of targets. Additionally, standard supplier communications consistent with legal and compliance rules are developed and overseen.

The role sets team strategy for selection and prioritization of categories, delivering training and leading category manager working sessions. The position may also manage supplier engagement processes, including content development for communications and managing ad hoc engagements. If applicable, the Senior Manager develops and implements strategy for multiple teams, leading the alignment to defined business strategies and managing subordinate managers.

Collaboration across various groups, including merchandising, technology, and supply chain, is essential to achieve project goals. The Senior Manager acts as a subject matter expert on insights and analytics, driving the adoption of solutions and ensuring overall business and financial objectives are met. Leading and developing a team, this role fosters a mindset of continuous improvement and adaptability.

Leadership Expectations:

• 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 Business / Science / Engineering or related field
• Minimum 6-8 years of increasing responsibility in merchandising and/or cost analytics
• Exceptional storytelling skills with a proven ability to successfully influence and manage stakeholder engagement
• 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 motivated 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, web scrapped data, internal sales and finance data, shopper panel data, etc)
• Sense of urgency and resourcefulness
• Attitude to learn new and challenging work

Minimum Qualifications: Age - 16 or older

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