Senior Manager, Product Development - Adult Beverage

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Product Development – Adult Beverage leads cross-functional teams to deliver innovative Member’s Mark products across wine, spirits, beer, and ready-to-drink categories. This role drives end-to-end product development, from concept through commercialization, ensuring quality, compliance, and alignment with member needs and business goals. Leveraging a food science background and industry expertise, the manager partners with internal teams and suppliers to create distinctive, high-performing products. Responsibilities include lifecycle management, problem-solving, and using market insights to inform strategy. This role also leads projects and fosters collaboration to deliver impactful innovation. The Fresh Food and Adult Beverage Product Development team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, innovative Member’s Mark products that enhance the member experience. The team specializes in creating unique offerings across fresh foods, wine, spirits, beer, and ready-to-drink categories by combining culinary and beverage expertise with consumer insights. Collaborating cross-functionally with sourcing, quality, and suppliers, the team brings trend-forward ideas to market efficiently. Their commitment to craftsmanship and quality drives growth and strengthens Sam’s Club’s fresh and beverage assortment through distinctive private brand products.

Requirements

• Extensive subject matter experience in product development and lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with business strategies and customer needs.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects from concept through delivery.
• Strong expertise in product strategy, research, and development, including benchmarking and trend analysis.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with internal and external partners.
• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring, coaching, and building high-performing teams.
• Analytical skills to perform root cause analysis and implement solutions that drive continuous improvement.
• Commitment to ethical standards, integrity, and supporting organizational values.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Design, or related field and 4 years’ experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Food Science/Brewery Science/ Viticulture and Enology and 3-5 Years experience in Adult Beverage Industry
• Application development experience with emphasis on VBA and SQL programming languages
• Creative design software
• Financial modeling
• Leading and completing cross-functional projects
• Manufacturing, product development, or packaging
• Microsoft Office
• Supervisory
• Masters: Arts
• Masters: Business
• Masters: Science
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
• Six Sigma - Certification

Responsibilities

• Lead product development initiatives by coordinating cross-functional teams and managing communications to ensure alignment and timely delivery.
• Work directly with our supplier partners to develop propriety private brand items for our members.
• Develop and manage product specifications throughout the lifecycle, conducting benchmarking and quality reviews to meet customer needs.
• Analyze market trends and data to inform product strategies and recommend enhancements to senior leadership.
• Drive execution of business plans by identifying operational needs, removing obstacles, and monitoring performance metrics.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.

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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees