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Walgreens
Senior Analyst, Category Strategy & Assortment -Hybrid (Deerfield, IL)
DEERFIELD, IL
May 26, 2025
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Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, strategic, and collaborative Senior Analyst to join our Merchandising team. In this role, you will play a critical part in driving category strategy, optimizing assortment planning, and ensuring that product offerings align with customer needs, market trends, and business goals. You will leverage an assortment planning tool with data-driven insights, market research, and performance metrics to shape product selection and assortment strategies across key categories.
 
Job Responsibilities:
  • Develops and executes merchandising strategies that are aligned with Company goals and are focused on delivering value to the customer.
  • May develop communication and guides to support the field in the effective execution of merchandising strategies at the store level. Provides clarification and technical support for more complex merchandising issues and questions.
  • Leads day-to-day activities to meet departmental objectives. Masters and innovates within one area of specialization and provides input to streamline and improves processes within a broader functional area.
  • Partners with various areas within the Company, vendors, suppliers, contractors and cross-functional project teams to drive results through enhanced merchandising programs and policies.
  • Completes and provides complex analytical analysis to provide insights for program design and management decision-making.
  • Ensures that merchandising programs are developed to align with the customer value proposition.
  • Utilizes an advanced knowledge of internal merchandising processes and external best practices and trends to provide recommendations for continuous improvements and advancement efforts for Walgreens merchandising programs.
  • Utilizes an advanced knowledge of KPIs and targeted merchandising strategies that will drive store results.
  • Engages and develops analysis for interpretation of results and analyzing trends.
  • Develops and executes assigned high profile plans/programs to enhance/maximize consumer awareness, market share and support specified initiatives.
  • Participates in development of programs that establish and enhance standards.
  • Reviews alignment of functional area strategies with assumed outcomes.About Walgreens
    Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) 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 www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.



     

    External Basic Qualifications

    • Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
    • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Suite - MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
    • Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience in an analytical role in finance, insights, planning, merchandising or related experience

     We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Senior Analyst, Category Strategy & Assortment -Hybrid (Deerfield, IL)
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