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Job Summary:
Walgreens is a leading healthcare, pharmacy and retail company serving nearly 9 million customers daily. They are seeking an Associate Manager for Owned Brand Commercialization to support the end-to-end customer-led strategic new product development process, track product optimization, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality excellence.
Responsibilities:
• Supports the Owned Brand Commercialization Manager in administering an assigned set of Owned Brands within a broad range of categories. Provides support to manager for end-to-end customer led strategic new product development process inclusive of innovation identification, product business viability and product specification creation.
• Works with cross functional team to help achieve product quality excellence, which meets or exceeds customer expectations, validating through testing and communication with key stakeholders.
• Tracks productivity targets and recommends product assortment optimization.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining detailed product specifications. Create detailed inputs for cross functional product briefing.
• Provides thorough inputs for integrated activity plan.
• Maintains category trend information to assist with new product development process.
• Familiarity with how to forecast demand for both short term and long term sales; basic understanding of logistics and the effect on store and warehouse fill rates, inventory, and shelf life, and the results these areas have on Company profitability.
• Collaborates with regulatory/legal department to ensure all products have appropriate claim substantiation.
• Follows brand guardrails in identifying appropriate product specifications.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 2 years of experience in buying, product development or purchasing in a retail/CPG environment OR High School diploma/GED and 4 years of experience in Merchandising, Product Development or Marketing.
• Experience in financial planning & analysis.
• Knowledge of logistics.
• Experience analyzing retail data such as Nielsen or IRI.
• Experience in forecasting long-term opportunities, including product development.
• Knowledge of retail business financial concepts, to include: penny profit market, mark-up percent's, turns and ROI.
• 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).
• Willing to travel up to/at least 15% of the time for business purposes (domestically and/or internationally).
Preferred:
• MBA or Master’s Degree
• Knowledge and experience in private brands, CPG, or retail.
• At least 1 year experience of cross functional team leadership.
Company:
Walgreens is a pharmacy, health, and wellness service center that offers trained infusion nurses and pharmacists to treat patients. It is a sub-organization of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Founded in 1901, the company is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Walgreens has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
