Senior Manager, Product Development - Produce Foods
About The Position
At Walmart, the Senior Manager, Food Product Development helps shape and grow Walmart’s Private Brand food businesses. The role combines food science, culinary expertise, customer insights, and commercial judgment to develop differentiated, high-quality retail products that customers enjoy and can afford. It covers the process from identifying innovation opportunities through product development and commercialization, influencing products sold in Walmart stores and online. Walmart Brands Product Development brings together food scientists, culinary-minded innovators, and product experts to build trusted brands. The team collaborates with Merchandising, Sourcing, Quality, Packaging, Brand, and suppliers to translate customer needs into successful products. It combines technical expertise, commercial thinking, and a focus on taste, quality, innovation, and value at Walmart scale, while exploring emerging technologies and improving product development and business growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Design, or a related field and 4 years of experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or a related area; OR 6 years of experience in design, merchandising, marketing, or a related area.
- Strong food product development expertise across ingredients, formulation, manufacturing, sensory, packaging, and commercialization.
- Culinary curiosity and a passion for flavor, texture, food trends, and consumer eating experiences.
- Customer-first thinking and ability to translate insights and competitive intelligence into product strategies.
- Commercial acumen to balance product quality, cost, margin, manufacturability, and customer value.
- Confidence using data, analytics, and emerging AI tools to improve decisions and simplify work.
- Ability to influence cross-functional partners, navigate ambiguity, and deliver results.
- Passion for building innovative products and successful food businesses.
Nice To Haves
- Application development experience, especially with VBA and SQL.
- Experience with creative design software.
- Financial modeling experience.
- Experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
- Experience in manufacturing, product development, or packaging.
- Microsoft Office experience.
- Supervisory experience.
- Master’s degree in Arts, Business, or Science.
- Project Management Professional certification.
- Six Sigma certification.
Responsibilities
- Build customer-led product strategies, innovation pipelines, and actionable product briefs.
- Lead formulation, sensory evaluation, specifications, supplier development, testing, and commercialization.
- Integrate food safety, regulatory, labeling, quality, and shelf-life requirements from concept through launch.
- Drive cost optimization, value engineering, and informed technical and commercial trade-offs.
- Partner with Merchandising, Sourcing, and suppliers to deliver differentiated products and business results.
- Use customer insights, sales performance, quality data, analytics, and AI to improve products and accelerate development.
- Manage priorities, milestones, risks, and cross-functional decisions while strengthening team capabilities.
Benefits
- Competitive pay.
- Performance-based bonus awards, including annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave.
- Family care leave.
- Bereavement leave.
- Jury duty leave.
- Voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
