JOB SUMMARY:

We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, strategic, and collaborative Senior Analyst 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. You will leverage an assortment planning tool with data-driven insights, market research, and performance metrics to shape product selection and assortment strategies across key categories.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops and executes merchandising strategies that are aligned with Company goals and are focused on delivering value to the customer.
• May develop communication and guides to support the field in the effective execution of merchandising strategies at the store level. Provides clarification and technical support for more complex merchandising issues and questions.
• Leads day-to-day activities to meet departmental objectives. Masters and innovates within one area of specialization and provides input to streamline and improves processes within a broader functional area.
• Partners with various areas within the Company, vendors, suppliers, contractors and cross-functional project teams to drive results through enhanced merchandising programs and policies.
• Completes and provides complex analytical analysis to provide insights for program design and management decision-making.
• Ensures that merchandising programs are developed to align with the customer value proposition.
• Utilizes an advanced knowledge of internal merchandising processes and external best practices and trends to provide recommendations for continuous improvements and advancement efforts for Walgreens merchandising programs.
• Utilizes an advanced knowledge of KPIs and targeted merchandising strategies that will drive store results.
• Engages and develops analysis for interpretation of results and analyzing trends.
• Develops and executes assigned high profile plans/programs to enhance/maximize consumer awareness, market share and support specified initiatives.
• Participates in development of programs that establish and enhance standards.
• Reviews alignment of functional area strategies with assumed outcomes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Suite - MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience in an analytical role in finance, insights, planning, merchandising or related experience
  We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

• Develops and executes merchandising strategies that are aligned with Company goals and are focused on delivering value to the customer.
• May develop communication and guides to support the field in the effective execution of merchandising strategies at the store level. Provides clarification and technical support for more complex merchandising issues and questions.
• Leads day-to-day activities to meet departmental objectives. Masters and innovates within one area of specialization and provides input to streamline and improves processes within a broader functional area.
• Partners with various areas within the Company, vendors, suppliers, contractors and cross-functional project teams to drive results through enhanced merchandising programs and policies.
• Completes and provides complex analytical analysis to provide insights for program design and management decision-making.
• Ensures that merchandising programs are developed to align with the customer value proposition.
• Utilizes an advanced knowledge of internal merchandising processes and external best practices and trends to provide recommendations for continuous improvements and advancement efforts for Walgreens merchandising programs.
• Utilizes an advanced knowledge of KPIs and targeted merchandising strategies that will drive store results.
• Engages and develops analysis for interpretation of results and analyzing trends.
• Develops and executes assigned high profile plans/programs to enhance/maximize consumer awareness, market share and support specified initiatives.
• Participates in development of programs that establish and enhance standards.
• Reviews alignment of functional area strategies with assumed outcomes