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Position Summary... What you'll do...Role summary: 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
About the team: 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.

• 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.

What you'll bring:

• 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
• Preferred: Master’s Degree in Food Science/Brewery Science/ Viticulture and Enology and 3-5 Years experience in Adult Beverage Industry

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). 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).

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications
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. Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

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 - CertificationPrimary Location... 2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.