Associate Manager, Owned Brand Commercialization

Walgreens; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking an Associate Manager, Owned Brand Commercialization to support end-to-end customer-led development from ideation to launch. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality, profitability, and compliance across owned brands.

The role requires 2+ years in buying or product development, strong financial analysis and forecasting skills, and the ability to travel up to 15%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 2+ years in buying, product development or purchasing in retail/CPG.
• Experience in financial planning & analysis.
• Knowledge of logistics and forecasting long-term opportunities.
• Experience analyzing Nielsen/IRI retail data.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Willing to travel up to 15% for business.

Responsibilities

• Support the Owned Brand Commercialization Manager in end-to-end NPD and product development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and viability.
• Track productivity targets and optimize product assortment.
• Create and maintain detailed product specifications and briefs.
• Provide inputs for integrated activity plans and category trends.
• Forecast short- and long-term demand and assess supply impact.
• Coordinate with regulatory for claim substantiation and brand guardrails.

Skills

Financial analysis

Logistics knowledge

Data analysis

Forecasting

Nielsen/IRI data

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

MBA or Master’s Degree

High School diploma/GED with 4 years experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job Summary:

As a Associate Manager, Owned Brand Commercialization, you will provide support to the manager for end-to-end customer-led strategic owned brand new product development process inclusive of product knowledge, financial business case viability and category collaboration. You will track and identify product optimization based on consumer response and performance. You will be expected to demonstrate strategic creative thinking, be able to thrive in the ambiguity of innovation while inspiring teams to deliver results through commercialization with an overall optimistic and “can do” attitude.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supports the Owned Brand Commercialization Manager in administering an assigned set of Owned Brands within a broad range of categories. Provides support to manager for end-to-end customer led strategic new product development process inclusive of innovation identification, product business viability and product specification creation.
• Works with cross functional team to help achieve product quality excellence, which meets or exceeds customer expectations, validating through testing and communication with key stakeholders.
• Tracks productivity targets and recommends product assortment optimization.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining detailed product specifications. Create detailed inputs for cross functional product briefing.
• Provides thorough inputs for integrated activity plan.
• Maintains category trend information to assist with new product development process.
• Familiarity with how to forecast demand for both short term and long term sales; basic understanding of logistics and the effect on store and warehouse fill rates, inventory, and shelf life, and the results these areas have on Company profitability.
• Collaborates with regulatory/legal department to ensure all products have appropriate claim substantiation.
• Follows brand guardrails in identifying appropriate product specifications.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 2 years of experience in buying, product development or purchasing in a retail/CPG environment OR High School diploma/GED and 4 years of experience in Merchandising, Product Development or Marketing.
• Experience in financial planning & analysis.
• Knowledge of logistics.
• Experience analyzing retail data such as Nielsen or IRI.
• Experience in forecasting long-term opportunities, including product development.
• Knowledge of retail business financial concepts, to include: penny profit market, mark-up percent's, turns and ROI.
• 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).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Willing to travel up to/at least 15% of the time for business purposes (domestically and/or internationally).

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s Degree
• Knowledge and experience in private brands, CPG, or retail.
• At least 1 year experience of cross functional team leadership.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled.

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Salary Range: $65000 - $$113,750.00 / Salaried