Manager, Data Science

Walgreens • Deerfield, IL

2d

About The Position

Designs, develops, and implements methods, processes and systems to consolidate and analyze diverse data sets including structured and unstructured. Manages the daily operational activities that develop and implement tactical plans for specified area. Oversees team(s) assigned to projects and may manage implementations. Ensures resources are accurately allocated in line with tactical plans and appropriately accounted for.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Math, Business, Actuarial Science, or Computer Science OR High School Diploma / GED and at least 5 years of experience in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Math, Business, Actuarial Science, or Computer Science.
• Experience with Pharmacy Industry related business practices, data and pricing methodologies.
• Experience establishing and maintaining key relationships with internal (peers, business partners and leadership) and external (business community, clients and vendors) within a matrix organization to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and timelines.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with no supervision, depending upon oneself and proper delegation to resolve issues to ensure completed objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex business issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience overseeing the performance of direct or indirect reports and being held accountable for their deliverables.
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: changing picture styles, customizing animation and/or setting automatic slide timings).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: adding developer tab, creating a macro, formatting table style, inserting comments and/or creating a mail merge).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Access
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and or cross functional team leadership

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in a quantitative, computational or technical discipline
• Experience interacting at the executive level
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Acts as subject matter expert and advisor on topic of the largest most complex analytical tools, enterprise data systems and/or analytical methodologies for the company.
• Develops and ensures proper execution by other team members of the most complex innovative data visual presentation strategies to ensure data is conveyed in meaningful and interpretive formats for all audience levels.
• Develops and ensures proper execution by other team members of the most complex large scale innovative analytical and/or statistical methodologies and supporting tools for evaluating Company processes, business problems, and/or ROI of products and services.
• Answers largest most complex questions from the field.
• Manages the distribution of field support work among the pricing analysts to ensure all issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Serves as industry leader and subject matter expert in one or more areas for most complex methodologies/models.
• Creates and oversees the training schedule of new employees as well as participate in a significant amount of training for new and existing employees.
• Provides analytical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to the team and peers.
• Develops and maintains an automated process to identify data and process integrity issues.
• Provides leadership with detailed recommendation for issue resolution.
• Identifies both up and down stream impact of identified issues and fully communicates with any impacted parties.
• Develops timely, innovative, objective analysis which leads to fact-based solutions for strategic business issues.
• Identifies, formulates, and drives problem definition and hypothesis formulation as it relates to the specific business environment.
• Synthesizes externally syndicated data with internal experience.
• Prepares standard and ad hoc management reports and presentations for more complex projects.
• Utilizes query based tools to create and run queries used for data mining and analytics to support other job responsibilities and ad hoc projects.
• Leads the technical development; ensures proper execution of most complex models and tools used to compare executed contract terms and conditions to parameters included in internal and external data sources.
• Identifies data source deficiencies among company data and suggests path to resolve.
• Reviews and approves methodologies identified in the compliance monitoring program to include evaluation of definitions, price increase maintenance and network identification.
• Reviews and approves improvements to standard model assumptions and multifaceted business problems within the organization.
• Updates processes, using findings from performance monitoring (For example, adding order logic steps to improve on data matching).
• Works closely with the business users and IT resources, consulting and understanding their needs, establishing realistic expectations, developing analytical work plans around problems, owning the development and delivery of work plans and then delivering back to the client.
• Provides consulting services related to data analysis, analytic tools, and enterprise analytic architecture.
• Works cross functionally across divisions with key stakeholders
• Responsible for meeting all company directives, contractual or otherwise, as it relates to assigned client portfolio and delegating supporting functions to direct reports as appropriate.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

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