Strategic 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

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.