Senior Manager, Product Development - Private Brands Food - Private Brands

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make and drives us to create the future of retail.

As a Senior Manager, Product Development, your product expertise, customer insight, & vision for the industry will allow you to create businesses in Snack food products at Walmart.  You will have the opportunity to create first of a kind innovative products and to determine future product strategies across a wide range of categories. You will combine deep customer insights with technical understanding to bring to life best-in class products through the development of product specifications which are tailored to meet the customer’s needs. You will directly work with merchants to influence the Snack Foods industry as a top expert at Walmart.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You have a passion for developing successful businesses and have an attention to detail in the product development fundamentals of customer insights, trend development, brand development, formulation, & manufacturing.

• You are comfortable at influencing the industry at all levels, ingredient manufacturers, finished product manufacturers, national brands, special interest groups, regulatory agencies, & academia and can integrate those perspectives into successful business opportunities.

• You build strong relationships with those around you at all levels whether internal or external to Walmart.

• You are data savvy. You can analyze customer behavior, business fundamentals, anticipate market changes, and can use that information to make facts-based decisions.

• You are not timid to concurrently manage multiple workstreams while you identify and communicate business priorities of each to a diverse set of stakeholders.

• You are tenacious, dedicated and thrive working with ownership, autonomy, and a healthy dose of competition in an ever-changing environment at the Fortune 1 scale.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Being Self-Motivated: You preemptively solve problems, develop business opportunities, and customer propositions without being directed to do so. 

• Staying Customer Centered: You are always considering creative ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and customer experience.  You are also fanatical about quality.  You fight for the customer so they may have the best product at the best price.

• Remaining adaptable: Change is certain in retail.  You are comfortable leading in ambiguity and demonstrate resourcefulness in the face of change, obstacles, and adversity.

• Influencing Others:  You are an effective communicator and are comfortable sharing with a wide range of audience regardless of size or type whether they be customers, stakeholders, or CEO’s.

• Operating with excellence – You set an example when it comes to personal excellence. More than most you excel at managing KPI’s, delivering with excellence, remaining organized, and continually learning all while developing yourself and others.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
 

Benefits & Perks:

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid mat