Manager, Category Strategy

Walgreens • Deerfield, IL

23h • $100,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, strategic, and collaborative Manager 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. This position will also support supplier negotiations and joint business planning by providing analysis, insights, and cross-functional coordination that strengthen partnerships and enable effective decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in promotions, marketing, retail, analytics, pricing, consumer packaged goods, insights, vendor collaboration, consumer research, inventory, category management and/or business analysis OR High School Diploma /GED and at least 5 years of experience in promotions, marketing, retail, analytics, pricing, consumer packaged goods, insights, vendor collaboration, consumer research, inventory, category management and/or business analysis.
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external resources to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines.
• At least 1 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.

Responsibilities

• Manages the daily strategic activities that develop and operationalize a customer-led and data-driven approach to multiple components / processes for a specified section of work within Category/Format Strategy.
• Collaborates with a team and / or cross-functional partners responsible for developing and implementing strategies that support category growth within established policies, procedures and standards of the specified discipline. Outcomes managed have an impact on category initiatives.
• May become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems highly complex in nature.
• May make recommended changes to strategy/roadmap for area of responsibility.
• Develops protocols to support established standards. Manages the development and implementation of processes and /or tools. May oversee team(s) assigned to projects and manages the execution processes.
• Collaborates and works cross-functionally to develop strategies to mitigate loss and/or optimize profitability.
• Shares information cross-functionally to improve workflow processes. Interacts with direct reports and peers in management / customers / vendors to share information and improve cross-departmental processes and relationships.
• Continuously evaluates best practices, methodology and tools and seeks to improve deliverables in order to maintain alignment with business needs.
• Reviews reports and metrics and identifies opportunities to grow and optimize specified area of responsibility.
• Analyzes the competitive marketplace for patterns and trends and makes recommendations for application of findings. Provides recommendations in creation and development of templates, methodologies, and presentations relating to strategies for area of responsibility.
• May create and execute divisional projects based on strategic need. Utilizes project management skills to create client-focused deliverables, delegate work, execute project analysis, and deliver strategic results.
• Provides guidance, direction, coaching, and counseling to a team of analysts and/or cross-functional partners.
• Allocates available resources to meet strategic objectives. Fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager