Associate Manager Owned Brand Commercialization - Personal Care

Walgreens Boots Alliance • Riverwoods, IL

275d

About The Position

Provides support to manager for end-to-end customer-led strategic owned brand new product development process inclusive of product knowledge, financial business case viability and category collaboration. Tracks and identifies product optimization based on consumer response and performance. This associate manager is expected to demonstrate strategic creative thinking, be able to thrive in the ambiguity of innovation while inspiring teams to deliver results through commercialization with an overall optimistic and “can do” attitude.

Requirements

• 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.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Willing to travel up to/at least 15% of the time for business purposes.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Health and Personal Care Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree