Senior Associate, Market Planning and Research

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

Job summary

Walgreens, a leading retailer and pharmacy, seeks a Senior Associate for Market Planning and Research in Deerfield, IL. The role focuses on researching business opportunities, competition, and growth strategies, with emphasis on healthcare-related markets.

You will build quantitative and qualitative analyses, model scenarios, and support strategic initiatives across divisions. The position requires collaboration with executives, presenting findings, and traveling up to 30% as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and internships in business, strategy or healthcare, or a high school diploma with 3+ years of experience using statistical methods.
• GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (SUM, charts, sorting, headers/footers, etc.).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (themes, slides, charts, fonts).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (headers, page breaks, tables).
• Experience delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business unit leadership and executives from various healthcare-related areas.
• Contributes to growth strategy development and prioritization of goals.
• Provides research, quantitative analysis, and modeling for opportunities and competition.
• Supports planning and deployment of Walgreens strategies (mergers, new store growth, healthcare initiatives).
• Develops strategic recommendations to create value for clients, markets, and business units.
• Applies analytical methods to quantify competitive threats and growth opportunities.
• Creates and presents impactful presentations to company leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in business/strategy/healthcare

MBA or Master’s Degree (Preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Senior Associate, Market Planning and Research

Address: 104 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05121-01104-2

Job Summary

As an Analyst, Market Planning and Research, you will be responsible for providing research and quantitative/qualitative analysis and modeling for the assessment of business opportunities, competition, business optimization, and business expansion.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborates and meets with business unit leadership, executives, and the management team from areas which may include healthcare related business units or leadership from market planning related areas.
• Contributes to the creation, development, and prioritization of growth strategies, plans, and goals.
• Provides research, quantitative analysis, and modeling to analyze opportunities, business plan development, the competition, and performance and/or evaluation of business opportunities – current or potential.
• Supports planning and deployment of Walgreens key strategies in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, new store growth, ancillary services, store concept optimization, and/or growth in the healthcare arena.
• Researches and develops strategic recommendations to create critical value to clients, markets, business units and the company.
• Applies analytical methods to quantify competitive threat and to identify opportunities to increase market share and/or identify organic growth opportunities.
• Creates and presents impactful, concise presentations delivered to company leadership.
• Designs and or maximizes processes to generate high-quality, consistent deliverables for multiple clients.
• Develops relationships in the industry to stay abreast of industry nuances and cultivates a well-known and respected presence in market planning, healthcare and/or geographic research.
• Works in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, self-managing multiple tasks and ad hoc requests.

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 previous internships in business, strategy or healthcare, or High School Diploma/ GED and at least 3 years of experience using statistical methods and analytical tools.
• GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
• 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).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s Degree.
• Experience in statistics, modeling, business intelligence or spatial analytics.
• Experience in creating retail content and format recommendations.

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