Strategic Category Manager, P&L & Growth

Walgreens; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking a Category Manager to drive revenue, profitability, and ROIC across assigned categories. You will lead assortment decisions, vendor negotiations, and promotional planning while applying analytics to optimize pricing and performance.

In this role, you will partner with marketing, supply chain, and store operations to implement winning category strategies, maintain strong supplier relationships, and mentor team members to achieve targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in retail, procurement, merchandising, vendor relations, or marketing.
• Demonstrated knowledge of P&L concepts and financial impact on category performance.
• Experience developing strategic merchandising programs and negotiating with vendors.

Responsibilities

• Plans and drives sales, gross-profit, inventory control and turnover for assigned departments.
• Develops merchandising, display, advertising, and distribution plans for items.
• Negotiates contracts and manages vendor relationships.
• Uses market and customer analytics to set pricing and optimize ROIC.
• Builds financial models and category plans to defend strategies.
• Translates consumer insights into assortment and promotions.
• Leads weekly category meetings and supports promotional productivity analyses.
• Forecasts sales and gross-profit levels with DMM and cross-functional teams.

Skills

P&L analysis

Vendor relations

Merchandising

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Customer-centric retailing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Walgreens is seeking a Category Manager to drive revenue, profitability, and ROIC across assigned categories. You will lead assortment decisions, vendor negotiations, and promotional planning while applying analytics to optimize pricing and performance.

In this role, you will partner with marketing, supply chain, and store operations to implement winning category strategies, maintain strong supplier relationships, and mentor team members to achieve targets.