Health & Wellness Category Buyer (Associate)

Walgreens Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens Co. in Deerfield, IL is seeking an Associate Category Manager - Health and Wellness to collaborate with Category Managers to select and purchase merchandise across defined categories, ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with company policy.

You will analyze market data, develop merchandising plans, negotiate contracts, and help drive planograms, promotions, and product assortments. A strong focus on data-driven decisions and cross-functional collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with relevant experience in retail/merchandising.
• Experience working with P&L concepts and analyzing financials.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and recommends sales, gross profit level, inventory control, and merchandise turnover objectives for the assigned department(s) and item(s).
• Develops and recommends merchandising, display, advertising, distribution, packaging and sales plans and programs for assigned items and merchandise departments.
• Negotiates buying contracts on categories or subsets of categories as determined by the Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) or Category Manager (CM). Reviews contracts with the CM.
• Analyzes market, competitive, and customer perception data, and provides recommendations to the DMM and CM regarding price levels.
• Reviews and analyzes historical and YTD category performance data. Recommends performance goals for categories, and manages category performance as assigned by the DMM and CM.
• Works closely with Store Experience and merchandise planning to build and review category insights. Utilizes data to make recommendations to Category Managers and DMMs on planograms, ROTO spots, promotional programs, merchandising assortment, forecasts, and other key category initiatives. Takes the initiative to elicit insights from data and recommend programs to division leadership.
• Develops an understanding of Walgreens and WBA private brands, including assortment and projected sales forecasts, gross profit level, and merchandising and promotional programs. Works with the Category Manager and/or DMM to project sales forecasts and gross profit levels within the assigned categories.

Skills

Analytical skills

P&L concepts understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

High School diploma / GED

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Walgreens Co. in Deerfield, IL is seeking an Associate Category Manager - Health and Wellness to collaborate with Category Managers to select and purchase merchandise across defined categories, ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with company policy.

You will analyze market data, develop merchandising plans, negotiate contracts, and help drive planograms, promotions, and product assortments. A strong focus on data-driven decisions and cross-functional collaboration is essential.