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Director - Global Cost Analytics
Walmart
San Bruno, CA, United States
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Position Description
The Director – Cost Analytics, is a member of the Global Cost Analytics Team, and will lead multiple Cost Analytics projects across different geographies, and be responsible for the development of vendor negotiation strategies and tactics. She / he will conduct complex analyses and work with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to negotiate lower net cost with vendors across WMT’s portfolio of categories and build action plans and tactics to capture identified opportunities. The Director – Global Cost Analytics will partner with the merchants throughout the negotiation process.
Responsibilities:
• Leads Cost Analytics initiatives across multiple categories for WMT International & WMT eCommerce
• Identifies opportunities to negotiate lower net cost across a wide range of assortment and with complex vendor implications, builds vendor negotiation strategies to capture identified opportunity
• Partners with merchants from WMT International & WMT.com US to enable lower cost negotiation
• Drives alignment across multiple cross-functional teams to ensure the achievement of business objectives, presents business strategies to WMT merchandising leadership to obtain alignment
• Manages multiple or complex product assortment and delivery channel strategies by analyzing business results, information related to product performance, trends, forecasts, competitors, and industry data and identifying actions to drive incremental vendor value opportunities
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity and ensures business needs are being met
Minimum Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience, of which 3+ years of experience in a top tier management consulting firms
• Graduate degree in Statistics, Math, Economics or MBA in Top schools preferred
• Experience working on growth strategies, pricing analyses, vendor funding programs design, marketing effectiveness programs, FMCG trade funding management & optimization
• Strong analytical skills – creative problem solver that can deliver comprehensive, balanced & actionable analysis; ability to run analyses on large data sets and build complex analytical models
• Strong oral and written communication skills – including the ability to develop and deliver presentations in a professional and direct manner
• Proven ability to effectively build and manage relationships, interact at all levels within the organization and across multiple functions
• Excellent team leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to persuade, communicate vision and motivate people at every level, cooperative working style
• Expert in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Company Summary
The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, we are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, talent and more, we are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.