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 commercialization within Seasonal categories. You will apply product expertise, review financial goals, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while monitoring product performance and consumer responses for strategic opportunities.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate strategic thinking, collaboration, and results orientation, with experience in retail/CPG product development and forecasting.

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, including penny profit, markup percentages, turns and ROI.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time (domestically and/or internationally).

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 including 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.
• Tracks productivity targets and recommends product assortment optimization.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining detailed product specifications.
• Provides inputs for cross functional product briefing.
• Provides inputs for integrated activity plan.
• Maintains category trend information to assist with new product development.
• Forecasts demand for short and long term sales; understands logistics effects on fill rates, inventory, and shelf life.
• Collaborates with regulatory/legal to ensure product claim substantiation.
• Follows brand guardrails in identifying appropriate product specifications.

Skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Forecasting

Retail analytics

Financial analysis

Travel up to 15%

Education

Bachelor’s Degree + 2+ years in buying/product development/purchasing

High School diploma/GED + 4 years in Merchandising/Product Development/Marketing

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Summary:

The Associate Manager, Owned Brand Commercialization supports the Manager in leading the end-to-end commercialization process within the Seasonal categories. Key responsibilities in this position include applying product expertise, understanding and reviewing financial goals and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role also monitors product performance and consumer responses to identify strategic opportunities. Success in this position requires strategic and creative thinking, along with the ability to navigate ambiguity, collaboration and results oriented.

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 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.

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Salary Range: $65000 - $113750 / Salaried