Position Summary...
What you'll do...
As a Principal Data Analyst supporting the Sam's Club merchandising organization and specifically our private brand Member's Mark within the Fresh, Freezer, and Cooler business, you'll sit at the center of one of Sam's Club's highest-impact merchandising areas. This is not a "back-office analytics" role - it's a chance to directly influence what millions of Members experience every day. You'll speak directly with Members, transform their feedback into actionable insights, and partner with merchants and product developers to shape the future of Member's Mark innovation. From survey creation to data storytelling to AI integration, you'll drive the full journey of how Member insights become product decisions. If you love solving business problems, leading discussions with data, and shaping strategy through compelling narratives, this role puts you in the seat to make real change.
What You'll Do In Your First 90 Days
30 Days: Build relationships with merchants, product developers and cross-functional teams; learn the landscape of Fresh/Freezer/Cooler.
60 Days: Execute against the strategic research vision, owning survey programs, insights deliverables, and Member engagement.
90 Days: Operate independently as the business's insights leader - driving decisions, communicating across stakeholders, and independently delivering high-impact analyses.
Ongoing Responsibilities Turn Member feedback into strategy
Design, program, and field Member surveys and other methodologies for Fresh/Freezer/Cooler business with the Member's Mark Community.
Directly engage with Members to capture needs, frustrations, and opportunities.
Analyze qualitative + quantitative data to identify product and experience improvements in Fresh/Freezer/Cooler.
Tell stories that influence decisions
Build compelling insight narratives that drive product developer and merchant action.
Present recommendations to leadership with confidence, clarity, and strategic framing.
Translate complex analytics into stories that shift decisions and spark innovation.
Elevate how the business uses data
Integrate AI tools to find efficiencies, automate processes, and increase speed-to-insight.
Identify and recommend the right questions to ask and data sources and perform quality checks.
Build statistical analyses, experiments, and research models that uncover meaningful patterns.
Lead as a senior member of the team
Have a collaborative, servant leader mindset
Act as a mentor and thought partner to other associates.
Champion continuous improvement and change management across the team and larger organization.
Serve as an internal consultant for large-scale or ambiguous business questions.
Drive business impact
Align insights work to strategic objectives.
Quantify business value and show how your work drives better decisions.
Remove barriers, create clarity, and help stakeholders take action.
What You'll Bring Core Skills & Must-Haves
A self starter who is member centric and obsessed - passion for understanding member needs and behaviors.
Creative problem solving - can turn raw data into actionable insights. Brings fresh ideas and challenges the status quo. Looks for new ways to visualize data and tell stories that resonate.
Data literacy & analytical thinking - Ability to interpret and analyze data
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint expertise for analysis + storytelling.
Demonstrated experience with AI tools and comfort experimenting with new capabilities.
Strong communication and data storytelling - able to influence without authority.
Client management - experience serving internal or external clients
Ability to execute and lead multiple projects simultaneously from end to end
Ability to collaborate across merchants, product managers, and leadership.
Servant-leadership mindset and willingness to guide others.
Interpersonal skills that build trust with stakeholders and Members.
Nice-to-Haves
Research execution skills: survey creation, data collection, analysis, and narrative development.
Statistics or research methodology background.
Experience programming surveys or using survey tool platforms.
How Your Success Will Be Measured
Decisions influenced (Did insights drive real action?)
Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-moving merchandising environment.
Stakeholder satisfaction - merchants and partners rely on your work.
Member satisfaction - your insights should make their experience better.
Why This Role Matters Your role and the insights you share directly shape what Members see on shelves, what innovations come next, and how Member's Mark grows. You are the voice of the Member - the person who turns raw feedback into product evolution. In this role, you're not running reports... you're changing the merchandise, the experience, and the Member's Mark brand. At Sam's Club, 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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. 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 .
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Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a company 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 (https://one.walmart.com/) .
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location).
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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 Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 3: 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce), Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)
Primary Location...
2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, 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.
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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
