What you'll do...
Sr Manager, Food Insights – Walmart
Walmart is dedicated to exceeding customer expectations and being the first choice for all shopping needs. As Sr Manager of Food Insights, you will leverage customer understanding and advanced analytics to inform Walmart’s food, grocery, and consumables strategies and campaigns. You’ll drive both long-term vision and short-term initiatives, ensuring actionable insights at critical moments for our customers and business.
Core Responsibilities:
· Food Insights Leadership: Oversee qualitative and quantitative research on food shopping behaviors, grocery trends, and customer needs using a variety of data sources.
· Consultative Partnership: Serve as a subject matter expert and advisor to Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Product teams, providing research-backed recommendations to influence food strategy.
· Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead and participate in cross-functional projects, building strong relationships across the organization and with external partners to ensure alignment on food insights and recommendations.
· Storytelling & Communication: Present complex research findings clearly and persuasively, using storytelling to convey food and grocery customer insights to senior leadership and non-technical audiences.
· Data Analytics & Project Management: Apply advanced analytics, visualization tools, and project management skills to deliver high-quality work, manage vendors, and ensure timely delivery of food and grocery insights.
· Strategic Perspective: Make omni-channel recommendations with a customer-centric and holistic business approach to food and consumables.
· Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of curiosity, learning, and innovation to enhance the quality and impact of food insights.
· Talent & Team Development: Mentor associates, build a collaborative team, and uphold Walmart’s values of belonging.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
· Strong background in primary research or retail analytics, with experience in research methods, databases, and data visualization tools, ideally within food, grocery, or consumables.
· Proven ability to lead complex consulting projects, preferably in food retail or grocery contexts.
· Excellent communication, storytelling, and organizational skills.
· Experience working cross-functionally, influencing senior leadership, and managing multiple projects.
· Passion for translating data into actionable, customer-focused food insights.
· Experience managing third-party research vendors.
Physical Activities & Travel:
· Observe customer and associate behavior in food and grocery departments or during food-related events.
· Enter and analyze information using computer systems.
· Some travel will be required to execute research, visit other Walmart offices/facilities and attend relevant conferences (