Senior Fabric R&D & Materials Platform Lead

Walmart; New York (NY); On-site; USD 132,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off and education benefits

Job summary

Walmart seeks a Senior Manager for Product Development Fabric R&D to lead cross-functional teams through concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with business strategies and quality standards. You will guide product specs, benchmark trends, and support sourcing, while driving program performance and team development.

The role focuses on fabric platforms, material qualification, and lifecycle management, collaborating with internal and external partners to achieve operational excellence and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in apparel materials development.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the materials strategy for your assigned category, aligned with merchandising, design, and quality priorities.
• Build and curate a platform of pre-qualified fabrics drives consistency, speed, and cost efficiency across the assortment.
• Ability to translate design and aesthetic requirements into tangible fabric specs for development.
• Identify and develop innovative new materials, sustainable fibers, novel constructions that differentiate Walmart product.
• Lead material adoption decisions including fabric platform expansion, mill nomination.
• Own the fabric calendar for your category, ensuring on-time delivery of qualified materials to support seasonal milestones.
• Drive cost engineering of materials.yarn count optimization, construction efficiency.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Communication

Sourcing collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Apparel, Fashion Design, Textile Engineering/ Science, Materials Science

Masters: Arts

Masters: Business

Masters: Science

Tools

PLM systems

Materials libraries

Digital materials platforms

Job description

Walmart seeks a Senior Manager for Product Development Fabric R&D to lead cross-functional teams through concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with business strategies and quality standards. You will guide product specs, benchmark trends, and support sourcing, while driving program performance and team development.

The role focuses on fabric platforms, material qualification, and lifecycle management, collaborating with internal and external partners to achieve operational excellence and