Principal

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Walmart Global People:

Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global People teams to influence strategy, optimize working models, and enable the business to achieve results while preserving the fabric that sets us apart and keeps our 2.5M Associates coming to work every day. From building communities to preparing Walmart for the future, to be a member of this team is to operate as a vital component to our sustainable success. Together, we think beyond the status-quo and inspire others to evoke positive change. When you join us in Global People, you immerse yourself in our culture, becoming a trailblazer and a true agent of influence.

The Principal Data Analyst (Enterprise Associate Listening) will lead the scientific development of Associate Experience survey instruments and survey sampling methodology for Walmart Inc. globally. You will work directly with our Listening Operations researchers to validate our measures and survey models. You will also lead and execute quantitative analytics work needed to design and deliver both internal and external associate experience benchmarking. You’ll play a lead role in evaluating, creating requirements, and implementing new analytics features within our listening platform (Qualtrics) and internal insights application, including the use of natural language processing, large language models, and other analytics features that would enable greater speed to insight and action.

What you’ll do:

• Global survey instrument design, validation, and modeling.
• Query and process large amounts of data for statistical modeling and analysis.
• Develop internal and external benchmarks for associate sentiment.
• Lead the evaluation of analytics capabilities and provide business requirements for analytics solutions.
• Design and execute the methodology for scientific survey sampling globally.
• Associate experience and engagement reporting and analysis as assigned.
• Provide support to data validation efforts.
• Make complex and difficult matters simple and easily understood, both in writing and verbally.
• Advise on analysis and modeling techniques, selecting the best fit for structured & unstructured associate sentiment data.
• Conduct exploratory analysis including hypothesis testing, statistical inference, and statistical analysis (predictive and/or prescriptive). 
• Partner with Business, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to translate analytics models into compelling digital insights experiences.
• Develop and execute recurring processes to monitor, analyze and continuously improve model performance and data accuracy.

What you’ll bring:

• A strong understanding of psychological science and measurement, such as Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Consumer and Marketing Science, or a related field. 
• Consistently high standards, your passion for quality is inherent in everything that you do.  
• A proven ability as a full stack data analyst to develop, validate, and optimize statistical survey models.
• Ability to connect the how and why, using your knowledge of data science theories and methodologies to derive the best approach that is fit-for-purpose. 
• A proven ability with statistical methods and advanced modelling techniques (e.g., Structural Equation Modeling, Random Forest, Bayesian inference, LLMs, NLP, neural networks, etc.). 
• Experience with languages used to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets (e.g. Python, R, SQL, etc.). 
• Proficient ability to use database technologies and distributed datastores (e.g. SQL, NoSQL).
• Experience developing models involving tuning, calibration, segmentation and optimization.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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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.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 3: 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce), Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America