Senior Manager, Insights Consulting - Food & Consumables (Walmart Brands)

Location: 221 River St, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Salary: $108,000–$216,000 annual salary in Hoboken; an alternative range of $90,000–$180,000 applies to Bentonville, Arkansas.

Company

hirify.global supports Walmart's retail and private-brand business through customer-focused research, analytics, and strategic insights.

What you will do

• Lead qualitative and quantitative research for the development, renovation, and growth of Food & Consumables private brands.
• Use focus groups, ethnographies, concept, shelf, name, and post-launch testing to identify customer needs, shopping behaviors, and industry trends.
• Apply syndicated and panel data, advanced analytics, visualization tools, and AI-enabled approaches to produce actionable insights.
• Advise cross-functional teams and influence customer-centric business decisions and best practices.
• Build executive and vendor partnerships, manage research priorities, and present findings to senior leadership up to the SVP level.
• Translate complex research into compelling stories that support omnichannel brand growth.

Requirements

• Strong experience with quantitative and qualitative primary research, research methodologies, databases, and data visualization tools.
• Experience applying syndicated and panel data to business strategy.
• Experience leading complex consulting projects, preferably in retail or branding.
• Excellent communication, presentation, storytelling, and organizational skills.
• Experience influencing senior leadership, working cross-functionally, managing multiple projects, and managing third-party research vendors.
• Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of analytics experience, master's degree plus 1 year, or 5 years of experience in an analytics-related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with brand building and innovation-focused insight processes.
• Data science, machine learning, optimization models, or a related master's degree.
• Python, Spark, Scala, R, or open-source frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Torch.
• Master of Business Administration.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase options, company-paid life insurance, and performance-based bonuses.
• Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Walmart-paid education benefits covering eligible tuition, books, and fees.