Senior Manager II, Product Development and Sourcing - Sam's (Dietary Supplements)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Sam's Club is a division of Walmart and is a membership warehouse club, with $64 billion in net revenue in Fiscal year 2021 serving tens of millions of members online and in nearly 600 locations across the US and Puerto Rico. We offer members quality products at exceptional value that is unmatched by traditional retail.

As a Senior Manager II, Product Development, you will develop, monitor and manage product specifications through the product life-cycle to ensure quality and customer needs are met by collaborating with and updating internal and external partners to determine product needs, drive initiatives, resolve issues, and ensure alignment. You know your supplier and customer needs better than anyone else and are constantly thinking about what is next for your business. Success in this role requires tenacity, a customer mindset, influence, and a competitive spirit. You'll use your executive presence to work with suppliers and cross functional team members at all levels and navigate interesting, complex challenges.

You'll sweep us off our feet if...

• You have Product Development experience in Dietary Supplements

• You're customer-centric in spirit and in execution

• You have a competitive spirit of being in front of trend and innovation

• You like digging into data and doing some analysis

• You're excited about solving complex challenges

• You're comfortable influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly

• You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team's products

You'll make an impact by:

• Finding and partnering with suppliers/manufacturers of dietary supplements (ex. vitamins, minerals, probiotics, sports nutrition)

• Ensuring products align with merchandising strategies by guiding the creative direction for new products; collaborating with merchants and providing advice related to product strategies and providing direction regarding product needs to drive financial performance

• Identifying potential issues during the product life-cycle; performing root cause analysis and communicating findings; recommending solutions to resolve issues; performing visual in-store review of items to identify variances and evaluating products against specifications

• Benchmarking within the industry to identify trends and opportunities to grow profit and sales; and communicating protocols to teams and making recommendations to senior leaders on new or enhanced product offerings

• Working cross-functionally to develop options to address issues; resolving issues to minimize business disruption and ensure products are delivered on time; and ensuring communication with internal and external partners to drive product development initiatives

• Always looking for creative ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and customer experience

• Manages the development of Member's Mark products by collaborating and communicating with other business partners (for example, Brand Management, suppliers, global sourcing, regulatory) to develop new products and renovate current products.

• Identifies and addresses technical and consumer drivers of category success.

• Prioritizes projects and tasks to ensure timelines meet company goals.

• Member's Mark product development and sourcing responsibility and technical support in the following sub-categories

  • Letter Vitamins
  • Multivitamins
  • Minerals
  • Botanicals/Herbals
  • Omega-3
  • Probiotics
  • Sports and Adult Nutrition

• Collaborates with suppliers to maintain accurate product specifications in Sam's Club systems

• Collaborates with Quality team for member complaint investigation and resolution

• Builds and achieves strategic objectives and initiatives to optimize lower prices

• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects

• Identifies and develops business opportunities for the Private Brands portfolio

• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

• Provides recommendations for selecting suppliers and monitors suppliers participating in Members Mark programs

Benefits & Perks:

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field and 4 years experience in merchandising, replenishment, logistics or related field OR 6 years
experience in merchandising, replenishment, logistics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Merchandising, planning or sourcing

Primary Location...
2101 SE SIMPLE SAVINGS DR, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712-4304, United States of America