Team Leader Walgreens

GSK • Deerfield, IL

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Walgreens Team Leader is Haleon’s senior commercial leader responsible for its relationship and business performance with Walgreens. Based in Deerfield, Illinois, the role leads the cross-functional team managing the Walgreens business and translates Haleon and customer strategies into an integrated growth agenda that delivers sustainable sales, profit, share, and organizational capability. The role is Haleon’s primary senior point of contact for Walgreens, building trusted relationships across the customer organization and mobilizing Sales, Category Management, Shopper Marketing, Revenue Growth Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights, Digital Commerce, and Brand teams around shared priorities. The Team Leader develops talent, ensures disciplined execution, and represents the Walgreens business in Haleon leadership forums.

The position owns the total customer strategy, annual joint business plan, financial delivery, forecast, trade investment, and portfolio performance. It converts Walgreens priorities, shopper needs, category dynamics, and Haleon brand strategies into differentiated omnichannel plans; drives commercial results; leads negotiations; and coordinates store, digital, media, and shopper activation. The role also uses customer, consumer, category, financial, and competitive insights to guide planning and decisions, develops team capability, and ensures customer plans and commercial practices comply with Haleon policies and standards.

The role is based in Deerfield, Illinois, with a hybrid schedule of three onsite days per week and travel as required to support customer and business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Significant progressive experience in customer leadership, sales, commercial strategy, or a related discipline within consumer health, consumer packaged goods, retail, or an adjacent industry.
• Demonstrated success leading a large, complex strategic customer and delivering sustained profitable growth.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. drug retail, category management, revenue growth management, joint business planning, and omnichannel commerce.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams and influencing cross-functional partners at senior levels.
• Strong financial acumen, negotiation capability, analytical thinking, communication skills, and executive presence.
• Ability to work from Deerfield, Illinois, and travel as required to support customer and business needs.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Own the total Walgreens customer strategy, annual joint business plan, financial delivery, forecast, trade investment, and performance management across Haleon’s portfolio.
• Translate Walgreens priorities, shopper needs, category dynamics, and Haleon brand strategies into differentiated omnichannel plans that create value for both organizations.
• Build trusted partnerships with senior Walgreens leaders and decision-makers across merchandising, pharmacy, marketing, digital, operations, and supply chain.
• Drive net sales, market share, gross profit, trade return, distribution, assortment, pricing, promotion, in-stock performance, and digital execution.
• Set negotiation strategy and guardrails, align internal stakeholders, and secure sustainable agreements that balance customer objectives with Haleon’s financial and strategic priorities.
• Lead a high-performing cross-functional customer team with clear priorities, decision rights, accountability, and operating rhythms.
• Integrate store, digital, media, and shopper activation plans to improve conversion, visibility, availability, and the consumer experience.
• Use customer, consumer, category, financial, and competitive insights to identify risks and opportunities, create scenarios, and recommend actions.
• Coach, inspire, and develop team members; build succession plans; and foster an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative culture.
• Ensure customer plans and commercial practices meet Haleon policies, controls, and standards while proactively addressing service, inventory, financial, and reputational risks.
• Represent the Walgreens business within Haleon’s leadership forums.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Comprehensive benefits program.
• Generous 401(k) plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Time-off programs, including six months of paid parental leave.
• Benefits eligibility from day one, including healthcare programs for which the company pays the majority of medical coverage for employees and their families.
• Opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on achievement of key business performance objectives.
• Other incentive and recognition programs.

What This Job Offers

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