Job Description
Job Summary:
Responsible for conducting complex analysis and provide recommendations to support the Merchandising organization. Provide support, guidance and training on tools and processes. Develops metrics to measure expected performance against actual indexing stores or categories of varying volume. Acts as a technical/methodological advisor of measurement and reporting completed by others to ensure validity and reliability of departmental research. Provides cross-functional direction to other members of the team associated with day to day and special projects.
Job Responsibility:
- Leads the development of assortment recommendations based on consumer behavior, distribution capabilities, and local legal requirements that directly contribute to improved category performance including sales, gross profit, inventory, basket implications, space performance, and locational performance.
- Develops frameworks, templates, and analytics to effectively communicate insights and trends tostakeholders. Acts as an advisor for analytics, reporting, tools, and processes. Provides guidance,training, and supports knowledge-sharing efforts within the Merchandising organization
- Contributes to the strategy development process of high profile and/or complex businesses, while helping the Merchandising team drive the program segmentation planning process resulting in improved sales and profit performance.
- Leverages analytics to assist various teams in determining product strategy.
- Evaluates best practices, methodology, and tools and seeks to improve deliverables in order to maintain alignment with the business needs.
- Develops and refines presentation structure and templates in order to more effectively communicate results and trends.
- Performs research and analyses of Merchandising initiatives to demonstrate the value of product and merchandising strategies. Team with Merchandising, Finance, and Operations to determine ROI on new initiatives. Support Joint Business Planning through analysis and recommendations to assist the Merchandising and Category teams in reaching their fiscal goals and budgets.
- Performs as subject matter advisor to specified area of responsibility and constructively challenges current methods to identify areas of improvement, support established standards and deliver improved results. May design specifications of assigned initiatives and may lead in implementation. Become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems.
About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens () has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at .
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor degree and at least 1 years of experience in Retail, Sales, and/or Category Management and/or analyzing related data such as sales trends, assortment selections, or financial planning OR High School/ GED and at least 4 years of experience in Retail, Sales, and/or Category Management and/or analyzing related data such as sales trends, assortment selections, or financial planning
- Experience with project management (planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives)
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- Experience presenting to senior management, including preparation of agendas, sending out documents to attendees.
- Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
- Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in reviewing and analyzing retail data (such as Nielsen, IRI, etc.)
- Experience with leading analytical software, such as Databricks and Power BI.
- Experience working with purchasing, merchandising, supply chain at Walgreen
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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