Position Summary... What you'll do... **What You'll Do...** + **Manage Communications** : Drive product development initiatives by providing updates to cross-functional teams to ensure alignment. Identify potential issues during the product lifecycle, investigate causes, perform root cause analysis, recommend and implement solutions, and communicate updates to stakeholders. + **Manage Sourcing Activities** : Ensure necessary sourcing documents are completed according to timelines. Validate data and documentation for accuracy, work with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate audit reporting, and assist sourcing managers in completing special projects. + **Develop and Manage Product Specifications** : Collaborate with internal and external partners to determine product needs, drive initiatives, resolve issues, and ensure alignment. Conduct industry benchmarking, review and manage sample assortments, create product specifications, submit approvals, provide reports through the development process, and perform visual in-store reviews to evaluate products against specifications. + **Direct Implementation of Product Strategies** : Conduct research to gain insight into customer needs, analyze data to determine business impact, streamline processes for product development and delivery, aggregate research information for business intelligence, and benchmark within the industry to identify trends and opportunities. Communicate protocols to teams and make recommendations to senior leaders on new or enhanced product offerings. + **Ensure Alignment with Merchandising Strategies** : Guide the creative direction for new products, collaborate with merchants, provide advice related to product strategies, track performance metrics, evaluate the product life cycle, work cross-functionally to develop options to address issues, resolve issues to minimize business disruption, and ensure communication to drive product development initiatives. + **Drive Execution of Business Plans and Projects** : Identify customer and operational needs, develop and communicate business plans and priorities, remove barriers and obstacles that impact performance, provide resources, identify performance standards, measure progress, adjust performance, develop contingency plans, and demonstrate adaptability and support continuous learning. + **Provide Supervision and Development Opportunities** : Select and train associates, mentor, assign duties, build a team-based work environment, establish performance expectations, conduct regular performance evaluations, provide recognition and rewards, coach for success and improvement, and ensure diversity awareness. + **Promote and Support Company Policies** : Train and provide direction on company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity. Ensure compliance and support the Open Door Policy. + **Evaluate Business Needs** : Evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives. Consult with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders, solicit, evaluate, and apply suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and participate in and support community outreach events. **You'll Sweep Us Off Our Feet if You...** + **Culture Champion** : Model Walmart values to foster our culture; hold oneself and others accountable; support Walmart's commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance. + **Servant Leadership** : Act as an altruistic servant leader; consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent. + **Curiosity & Courage** : Demonstrate curiosity and a growth mindset; foster an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; exhibit resilience in the face of setbacks. + **Digital Transformation & Change** : Seek and implement continuous improvements; encourage the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working. + **Customer Focus** : Deliver expected business results while prioritizing the customer; apply an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans. + **Strategic Thinking** : Adopt a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy. + **Diversity, Equity & Inclusion** : Identify, attract, and retain diverse and inclusive team members; build high-performing teams; embrace diversity in all its forms; actively support diversity goal programs. + **Collaboration & Influence** : Build strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; work collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; communicate with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action. + **Talent Management** : Create a discipline and focus around developing talent; promote an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empower associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company; regularly recognize others' contributions and accomplishments. Join us to make a significant impact with your product development expertise and leadership! **Apply Now** to become a crucial part of our product development team. At Walmart, 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 (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. 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 . ‎ ‎ 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. ‎ 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: ‎ ‎ - Stock ‎ ‎ **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 - Certification **Primary Location...** 702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.