
Position Summary...About Decision Sciences at Walmart:
Walmart moves with speed at scale. Doing that well requires more than good instincts or dashboards—it requires clear, defensible decisions embedded directly into how the business operates.
Decision Sciences is a newly formed organization within Walmart U.S. with a focused mandate: ensure decision makers know what is actually moving the business and why, and translate that insight into clear investment guidance that changes where Walmart deploys capital, engineering capacity, time, and organizational attention.
Decision Sciences partners directly with senior business leaders to move beyond descriptive analytics and into causal understanding, prioritized action, and faster execution, while maintaining or improving service levels across existing analytics and science teams.
The Group Director, Decision Sciences - Merchandising is a senior leadership role responsible for standing up and leading the new Decision Sciences team, supporting the Merchandising organization.
This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, advanced analytics, experimentation, and talent leadership. The Group Director is accountable not just for analysis quality, but for whether the work changes decisions.
This is an enterprise shaping role, operating with VP level partners and leading teams that influence some of Walmart’s highest leverage decisions.
What you'll do...Lead Decision Science at the Business Frontier
Deliver Science That Changes Decisions
Own Experimentation Quality & Rigor
Build and Lead High‑Impact Teams
Operate Within a Pod‑and‑Platform Model
Ruthlessly Prioritize for Impact
What Success Looks Like:
What You Bring: Experience & Capability
Leadership Profile
Mindset
Why This Role Matters The Group Director of Decision Science helps define how Walmart decides, not just what Walmart knows. If you are motivated by building something foundational, influencing decisions at massive scale, and pairing rigorous science with real‑world execution—this role offers a rare opportunity to do that work where it truly matters. 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. 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.
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.
For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart. The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00 - $370,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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 Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 8 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 6 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 10 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
4 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications... Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Data science, machine learning, optimization models, PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Supervisory, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch), We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
601 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.