| Company Information:
Wal-Mart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 10,130 retail units under 69 different banners in 27 countries. With fiscal year 2012 sales of $443 billion, Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates worldwide.
Position Title:
Data Scientist - Data Mining & Machine Learning
Duties & Responsibilities:
Wal-Mart Information Systems Division is seeking experienced, detail-oriented data scientists to join its newly created Analytics Center of Competency supporting Business Intelligence & Analytics programs in Wal-Mart Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas. The successful candidate will need to be a self-starter with demonstrated experience using SAS and SQL programming with strong experience developing, implementing, and maintaining statistical models using modeling techniques including but not limited to decision trees, logistic regression, survival analysis, neural networks, multivariate statistical models, time series data analysis, and structural equation models. Excellent interpersonal skills, and professionalism and self-awareness; as well as the ability to communicate comfortably with all levels of staff and management are a must. The successful candidate is expected to be a problem solver in a fast-moving and highly diverse environment who will be able to handle multiple complex data driven analysis projects across multiple clients simultaneously while ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and on-time delivery. The candidate must be capable of translating complex theory into customer ready and customer facing presentation and will be presented with business challenges and opportunities in but not limited to: Forecasting; inventory replenishment planning; performance testing, monitoring and alerting; decision support & evaluation; patterning, clustering, and classification; optimization and root causes; software reliability and availability. In this role, the candidate will be part of an independent team performing analysis, implementation and support for all Wal-Mart business units and organizations
Position Qualifications:
Education and Experience: • Master degree in statistics, mathematics, econometrics or related fields with at least 8 years of experience; or • Ph.D. in statistics, mathematics, econometrics or related fields with 6 years of experience. • Experience with retail strategy, retail analytics, and with high proficiency in SAS & SQL is a plus. • Excellent attention to detail. Ability to identify and diagnose strategic data inconsistencies and errors given that majority of client reporting and analysis pulls data from multiple sources and require intense scrutiny of accuracy and reconcilability. • Strong multi-tasking skills. Must be able to balance multiple analytical projects, partners, vendors and timelines. Ability to reprioritize, seamlessly communicating the required changes and impacts to all affected parties. • Knowledge of SAS and R or other relevant Statistical/analytical/programming packages. • Very good communication skills.
Salary Range:
Competitive salary is commensurate with education and experience
Benefits:
Annual Incentive Award, Annual Equity, 401K, H&L Insurance, etc...
Web Site:
Application Address:
I-Li Lu
Contact Email: ili.lu@wal-mart.com
Application Deadline:
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