Specialist Marketing

Walgreens • Deerfield, IL

16d

About The Position

We’re looking for a strategic and solutions-oriented Marketing Specialist to support brand and category marketing for Walgreens. The Marketing Specialist leverages customer insights, market trends, and business objectives to help deliver impactful marketing strategies and exceptional customer and patient experiences. You will act as the connective tissue between our internal teams including gathering product priorities from merchandising, ensuring compliance with legal, providing communications with proper messaging, and working with measurement to understand/optimize impact. Additionally, you will liaise with our external agency partners to ensure flawless execution across TV, paid digital, paid social, influencer and brand activations. You should be tapped into the latest cultural trends and marketing innovation, applying that knowledge to enhance customer-facing content and/or improve internal systems and process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of marketing or advertising experience.
• Knowledge of the methods, principles, and practices of marketing, advertising, and/or publishing.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as marketing, communications, or business administration.
• Master’s Degree or MBA.
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• 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).

Responsibilities

• Assists in developing and implementing marketing programs to support Walgreens products and services.
• Works individually or with a team in recommending action, scheduling and planning projects, estimating cost and managing projects to completion.
• May identify and recommend marketing opportunities consistent with business objectives; provides marketing support to throughout the organization.
• May work to identify and implement marketing strategies and programs in collaboration business teams.
• Communicates new ideas to manager.
• Develops presentations and reports for the business to provide marketing information which may include marketing trends, competition, new products, and pricing.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED