Senior Manager, Product Development - Furniture - Sam's Club

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

4h • $110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Join the Sam’s Club Product Development team and help shape the future of Member’s Mark products enjoyed by millions of members every day. In this role, you’ll turn insights, innovation, and industry trends into high-quality, high-impact items that elevate the member experience. If you’re passionate about creating products that blend science, creativity, and customer-driven thinking, this is the place to make your mark. What you’ll do… Lead product development communication across internal teams and external partners, ensuring alignment, timely updates, and clear issue resolution. Manage the full product lifecycle—from validating supplier data to reviewing new items, confirming specs, and coordinating approvals across cross-functional teams. Partner closely with omni merchants across multiple categories to bring high-quality Member’s Mark products to market. Support sourcing activities by validating documentation, ensuring audit-ready accuracy, and assisting sourcing managers with projects. Build, monitor, and refine product specifications through benchmarking, sample review, in-store evaluations, and continuous collaboration with partners. Conduct research and analyze data to anticipate customer needs, streamline development processes, and identify opportunities to improve product performance. Guide product strategy and creative direction, ensuring products meet financial goals, align with merchandising strategies, and deliver a best-in-class customer experience. Drive execution on multiple projects by setting priorities, removing barriers, tracking progress, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll sweep us off our feet if… You have a design-forward background in Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Engineering, or a related discipline. You’ve led furniture products from early concepts and storytelling through materials, form, function, and final production. You have a deep understanding of materials, construction, ergonomics, and finish—and know how to balance aesthetics with durability, cost, and scale. You partner seamlessly with suppliers and manufacturers to protect design intent while solving real-world production challenges. You thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment and can inspire cross-functional partners to deliver furniture that looks great, performs beautifully, and earns Member’s Mark credibility.

Requirements

• 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

• 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 communication across internal teams and external partners, ensuring alignment, timely updates, and clear issue resolution.
• Manage the full product lifecycle—from validating supplier data to reviewing new items, confirming specs, and coordinating approvals across cross-functional teams.
• Partner closely with omni merchants across multiple categories to bring high-quality Member’s Mark products to market.
• Support sourcing activities by validating documentation, ensuring audit-ready accuracy, and assisting sourcing managers with projects.
• Build, monitor, and refine product specifications through benchmarking, sample review, in-store evaluations, and continuous collaboration with partners.
• Conduct research and analyze data to anticipate customer needs, streamline development processes, and identify opportunities to improve product performance.
• Guide product strategy and creative direction, ensuring products meet financial goals, align with merchandising strategies, and deliver a best-in-class customer experience.
• Drive execution on multiple projects by setting priorities, removing barriers, tracking progress, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

Benefits

• 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 .
• - 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 .
• The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
• Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees