Director of Yield Strategy at Walmart Connect, leading teams on pricing, forecasting, and packaging strategy for ad inventory. Drive analytics and cross-functional collaboration for maximum revenue and advertiser value.
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data scientists and analysts focused on ads pricing, inventory forecasting, and packaging strategy.
Set the strategic direction for ad pricing, inventory packaging, and promotional opportunities.
Oversee the development and implementation of advanced machine learning models for ad inventory forecasting.
Guide the creation of advertising packages and promotional opportunities for Sales.
Present strategic recommendations and insights to executive leadership.
Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in retail media, programmatic advertising, and data science.
Requirements
Advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Biology, or related discipline).
8+ years of quantitative or data science working experience.
6+ years of online advertising industry working experience preferred with an understanding of advertising KPIs.
Deep understanding of retail media, programmatic advertising, and digital ad inventory management.
Experience with common machine learning techniques and forecasting models especially time series forecasting.
Experience in data science programming languages (Python or R), and experience with SQL and relational databases.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data visualization skills.
Proven track record of building and leading high-performing analytics and data science teams.
Benefits
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.
Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.
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