Senior Regional Maintenance Manager, Supply Chain - North

Walgreens; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking a senior leader to drive maintenance and automation reliability across the Northern Region's distribution centers. You will lead site maintenance management teams and be accountable for safety, asset reliability, operations, and staffing.

You will partner with Supply Chain Operations to align maintenance with business priorities, optimize asset availability, and manage budgets. The role emphasizes developing leaders, driving continuous improvement, and adherence to policies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or High School/GED with 7+ years in supply chain or business roles.
• At least 2 years contributing to financial decisions.
• At least 2 years direct or cross-functional leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Executes and/or oversees processes translating strategic goals into actionable tactics.
• Ensures development of innovative approaches supporting department strategies.
• Interacts with senior management on matters spanning several functional areas.
• Creates and fosters a high-performance culture focused on engagement and improvement.
• Owns relationships with third-party providers including contract negotiation and performance management.
• Transfers knowledge across teams to promote teamwork and objective achievement.
• Champions company initiatives aligning with vision and purpose to drive engagement.
• Monitors industry trends and regulatory issues and shares learnings with reports and peers.
• Plans, develops and manages departmental expenses and capital budgets.

Skills

Leadership

Financial decisions

Cross-functional leadership

Travel up to 10%

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

High School/GED

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for leading maintenance and automation reliability performance across assigned distribution centers within the Northern Region. Provides direct leadership to site maintenance management teams and maintains full accountability for safety, asset reliability, operational performance, financial results, staffing, and leadership development.

Partners closely with Supply Chain Operations to align maintenance execution with business priorities, maximize asset availability and throughput, and optimize total cost of ownership. Establishes operational objectives, manages budgets and resources, drives consistent execution of maintenance programs, and ensures adherence to company policies and performance standards.

Leads the implementation and sustained execution of network-wide reliability strategies and transformation initiatives while developing high-performing leaders, strengthening operational discipline, and driving continuous improvement across the region.

Location

This role will office out of any one of our 15 Regional Distribution Centers across the U.S. and Puerto Rico:

• Hartford, CT
• Easton, PA
• Linden, NJ
• Perrysburg, OH
• Anderson, SC
• Pendergrass, GA
• Jupiter, FL
• Valparaiso, IN
• Bolingbrook, IL
• Mount Vernon, IL
• Windsor, WI
• Waxahachie, TX
• Woodland, CA
• Moreno Valley, CA
• Carolina, Puerto Rico

Job Responsibilities

Executes and/or oversees processes and approaches, working with long-term perspective; translates strategic goals into actionable tactics and objectives. Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

Ensures the development of innovative approaches, processes, and solutions that support department and division strategies. Implements strategic policies when selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Erroneous decisions will result in critical delays in schedules and/or unit operations and may jeopardize overall business activities.

Interacts regularly with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning several functional areas and or stakeholders. Requires the ability to change the things of, or gain acceptance from others in sensitive situations, without damage to the relationship.

Creates and fosters high performance culture, focused on engagement, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Owns and manages relationships with third party service providers, including partner selection, contract negotiation, and performance management.

Transfers knowledge across functional lines, promoting teamwork, and empowerment to achieve established objectives.

Champions company initiatives, connecting efforts to company vision and purpose and driving increased engagement.

Monitors industry trends, best practices, and regulatory issues as they relate to specific area(s) of responsibility and shares learnings, as appropriate, with direct reports and peers.

Plans, develops and manages departmental expense and capital budgets. Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans and performance requirements.

Develops and mentors staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; builds and maintains employee morale and motivation; ensures the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies; fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 4 years of experience in a supply chain or business role OR a High School/GED plus 7 years of experience in a supply chain or business role.
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience in large-scale supply chain operations.
• Significant leadership experience in large-scale, highly automated distribution, fulfillment, or supply chain environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance and reliability operations across multiple facilities or geographically dispersed locations.
• Strong working knowledge of material handling automation, automated distribution systems, and industrial maintenance practices.
• Proven success managing operational performance, financial budgets, asset reliability, and technical leadership teams.
• Experience managing third-party service providers, equipment manufacturers, and strategic vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships with Operations and align technical execution with broader business objectives.
• Proven ability to develop leaders, challenge established practices, and implement sustainable organizational change.

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, see jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.

Salary Range: $125000 - $218750 / Salaried

Job Type: Full-time

Address: 106 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05123-01106-2

About Walgreens

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