Senior Manager, Product Development - Salty Snacks

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

7d • $110,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Manager, Merchandising Product Development Salty Snacks – Walmart Brands This role is based onsite in Bentonville, AR: relocation required At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission guides every decision we make—and challenges us to continuously shape the future of retail. As a Senior Manager, Product Development, you will play a critical role in building and scaling Walmart’s Private Brand businesses across Salty Snacks. Your product expertise, customer-first mindset, and industry vision will enable you to create innovative, high-quality products that customers trust and love. In this role, you will translate deep customer insights and technical expertise into best-in-class product strategies and specifications. You will partner closely with merchants and cross-functional teams to bring new products to life, influence category direction, and help shape the future of Salty Snacks at Walmart. You’ll thrive in this role if: You are passionate about building successful businesses and grounded in the fundamentals of product development, including customer insights, trends, brand development, formulation, and manufacturing. You are comfortable influencing across the industry—from ingredient and finished-goods manufacturers to national brands, regulatory bodies, special interest groups, and academic partners—and translating those perspectives into strong business opportunities. You build trusted relationships at all levels, both internally and externally, and know how to collaborate effectively across diverse teams. You are data- and AI-savvy, using analytics, customer behavior, and emerging AI tools to anticipate market shifts and accelerate learning and strategic planning. You confidently work across business leaders (merchants, executives) and technical experts (R&D, sourcing, quality, manufacturing) to drive priorities forward with clarity and influence. You are tenacious, self-directed, and energized by ownership, autonomy, and healthy competition in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment at Fortune 1 scale. You’ll make an impact by: Being self-motivated: Proactively identifying opportunities, solving problems, and developing customer propositions without waiting for direction. Staying customer-centered: Championing innovation, quality, and value—always fighting for the customer to deliver the right product at the right price. Remaining adaptable: Leading effectively through ambiguity and change, demonstrating resilience, creativity, and resourcefulness. Influencing others: Communicating clearly and confidently with audiences of all sizes, from cross-functional partners to senior leadership. Operating with excellence: Setting a high standard for execution by managing KPIs, staying organized, delivering results, and continuously developing yourself and others.

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

• Being self-motivated: Proactively identifying opportunities, solving problems, and developing customer propositions without waiting for direction.
• Staying customer-centered: Championing innovation, quality, and value—always fighting for the customer to deliver the right product at the right price.
• Remaining adaptable: Leading effectively through ambiguity and change, demonstrating resilience, creativity, and resourcefulness.
• Influencing others: Communicating clearly and confidently with audiences of all sizes, from cross-functional partners to senior leadership.
• Operating with excellence: Setting a high standard for execution by managing KPIs, staying organized, delivering results, and continuously developing yourself and others.

Benefits

• Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
• Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
• 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 (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees