Senior Manager, Product Development - Beauty & Personal Care

Overview

Senior Manager, Merchandising Product Development - Beauty & Personal Care Products – 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 Beauty & Personal Care.

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 beauty and personal care 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.

• 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.

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while welcoming all people. Walmart Inc. participates in E-Verify. Learn more about applicant rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores.

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