Senior Manager- Supply Chain (Inventory)

About CENTROID

Walmart’s CENTROID org is transforming the future of Walmart’s omnichannel supply chain strategy. Our team of industry-leading experts, consultants, and technologists combine exceptional strategic thinking with data science and advanced analytics to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges at Walmart’s scale.

Our mission is to design a supply chain that leverages Walmart’s unique advantages to provide a wide product assortment, offer the lowest costs, and build cutting-edge capabilities through transformative initiatives. We’re looking for extraordinary supply chain talent with top-notch quantitative abilities, critical thinking skills, and business acumen to propel Walmart through the next 50 years of excellence and innovation.

Job Description

This position is primarily focused on supply chain strategy rather than model development. It necessitates a background in supply chain management and entails extensive collaboration with cross-functional teams to carry out business analyses and shape our shared objectives. The role does not involve a significant amount of time dedicated to developing predictive models.

Responsibilities

• Manage and execute entire analytical projects from start to finish, including cross-functional project management, data collection and manipulation, analysis and modeling, and the communication of insights and recommendations.
• Build scalable and complex supply chain models and processes to optimize supply chain strategies with the goal of delivering an excellent customer experience while balancing operating cost and asset efficiency.
• Demonstrate a high degree of originality and creativity when developing solutions to improve existing business processes within supply chain, utilizing methods such as statistical analysis, regression modeling, and optimization.
• Identify areas of opportunity and influence execution of results via cross-functional participation to enable quick wins and continuous improvement.
• Create and deploy robust metrics and dashboards to enable tangible transformation.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience with digital transformation of ecomm replenishment and inventory placement.
• Have strong understanding of retail ecomm as well as advanced inventory fundamentals.
• Ability to lead and drive development of complex data science models with product, data science, and data engineering.
• Have strong operations research fundamentals, with focus on supply chain optimization.
• Strategic thinker for digital capabilities with strong storytelling skills and ability to paint a vision of best in class supply chain.
• Hands on experience leveraging SQL/Tableau to drill into large data sets to extract insights and root causes.

Potential projects include:

· Create models to analyze the Supply Chain network needed to support future sales growth with scenario modeling capabilities to understand the sensitivity to multiple variables; opening,

closing, or repurposing distribution centers; conduct scenario analysis to evaluate multiple networks designs and impact to customer experience and cost to serve.

· Develop Inventory Planning and Distribution strategy to optimize cost to serve and improve customer experience and stock availability with a tiered storage network and dynamic real-time distribution network.

· Develop optimization logic and a tool to determine truckload lane strategy for outbound transportation, balancing cost and SLA requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

· MBA, MS, or PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, or Supply Chain Management

· Experience with network modeling tools (e.g., Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru), network optimization, and long-range planning

· Experience in supply chain domains and related information systems — distribution/transportation, sourcing, planning, manufacturing, and inventory management

· Retail industry experience.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.