Merchandise Operations Coordinator

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

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking a Merchandise Operations Coordinator to coordinate merchandising, planning, strategy, and operations within Digital Commerce. You will support pricing/promo execution, site asset creation, and timely setup of new items and suppliers.

You will collaborate with store merchants, supply chain, and store operations to ensure a digitally-enabled customer experience across product assortment, pricing, checkout, and fulfillment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED and retail, sales, or marketing experience.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data to identify issues, trends, or exceptions.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little supervision.
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment between in-store experience and digital vehicles, including onsite promotion, pricing, assortment, and assets.
• Analyzes reports to determine Digital Commerce sales performance and opportunities.
• Presents findings to management as needed.
• Coordinates supplier funded digital campaigns onsite, reports on effectiveness, and communicates to stakeholders; handles invoicing and billing for suppliers.
• Serves as a point of contact for programs crossing digital and in-store such as Ship to Store and Same Day Delivery; communicates solutions to stakeholders.
• Executes digital pricing, promotions, and site assets with QA and process maintenance for execution.
• Provides management with insights into pricing/promo opportunities and recommends solutions.
• Collaborates with suppliers and merchants to maintain the assortment catalog.
• Works to improve accuracy and timely execution of new item/supplier setup and site assets.
• Outreaches to suppliers to ensure compliance with standards and maintains related documents.

Skills

Data analysis

Self-starter

Communication

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor’s degree (economics, supply chain, finance, marketing, or business)

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Merchandise Operations Coordinator

Address: 200 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-04620-00001-2

Job ID 1889223BR

Job Summary:

Provides coordination in the areas of merchandising, planning, strategy, and operations within the Digital Commerce teams. Responsible for supporting key activities in the areas of pricing / promotion execution, site asset creation, and ensuring timely setup of new items and suppliers. Collaborates with cross-functional partners, such as store merchants, supply chain, and store operations, to help coordinate the delivery of consistent digitally-enabled end-to-end customer experience with product assortment, pricing/promo, checkout and fulfillment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensures alignment between instore experience and digital vehicles, including onsite promotion, pricing, assortment, and assets.
• Assists with analyzing reports to determine Digital Commerce sales performance and identify opportunities.
• Presents findings to management as needed.
• Coordinates supplier funded digital campaigns onsite, reports on effectiveness, and communicates to key stakeholders internally and externally; Also coordinates invoicing and billing for suppliers and works with internal teams to ensure funds are recognized in P&L.
• Serves as a point of contact for inquiries and requests related to programs that cross both digital and in store such as Ship to Store and Same Day Delivery. Responsible for communicating solutions to assigned impacted stakeholders.
• Executes digital pricing, promotions, and site assets; ensures accurate setup, QAs offers, and maintains processes to ensure efficient execution.
• Provides management with insights into pricing / promo opportunities and makes recommendations on solutions.
• Collaborates with suppliers and merchants to ensure assortment catalog is properly maintained.
• Works to improve accuracy and timely execution of new item / supplier setup and site assets.
• Conducts outreach to suppliers to ensure full compliance with current company standards and improve item information. Maintains supplier documents related to program and product agreements/contracts cease and desist communications and supplier maintenance request communication.
• Makes recommendations to management when opportunities for improvement arise in order to maximize digital promotional effectiveness, site optimization, and merchandising programs.

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

• High school diploma/GED and at least 2 years of experience in retail, sales, or marketing
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in economics, supply chain, finance, marketing, or business
• Experience working in retail or the digital space
• 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. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
• Salary Range: $65000 - $$113,750.00 / Salaried