[Hiring] Manager, Rx Generic Purchasing @Walgreens

Role Description

Supports day to day execution of generic pharmaceutical purchasing to ensure product availability, operational excellence and financial performance. This role will work directly with pharmaceutical suppliers, wholesale partners and internal teams to ensure efficient and flawless execution of product processes and strategies across the network.

Schedule: This position offers remote work.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides analytic support on forecasting, ordering and metric tracking systems to others within the Supply Chain group.
• Works cross-functionally across the Pharmacy Purchasing and Supply Chain organization, using data and analytics to provide insight and recommendations that aid in decisions that have significant impact on the business.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of multiple specific business groups in order to create analytic insights for their business and develop appropriate business strategies.
• Responsible to help define and translate business goals into an analytic strategy that will drive action and support business unit leader(s) objectives.
• Designs periodic and ad hoc reporting and analyses to evaluate, maintain and improve Walgreens purchasing power and/or processes relating to inventory management.
• Identifies root causes driving undesirable performance and provides quality assurance guidance.
• Identifies projects, articulates value proposition, identifies systems and processes to be addressed and how, formulates the benefit case, involves the appropriate departments, manages the execution and completion and measures the impact upon implementation.
• Creates, updates and reviews with management, team work plans and progress.
• Direct, plan, and maintain the development of internal tools used to increase departmental efficiencies and aid in reporting and analytical capabilities of the department.
• Responsible for providing various ad-hoc data requests to internal and external management teams.
• Demonstrates and develops, using querying applications, fluency among team in accessing information from data sources.
• Demonstrates and develops team fluency in using key Office applications.
• Employs necessary steps for validating the accuracy of data and business rules used in analysis.
• Manage, coach, mentor and develop a team of analysts to deliver analytical insights to business owners and create cross-functional succession plans.
• Provide project management support for business unit’s objectives by identifying, executing and tracking benefits of value added projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience with analyzing and reporting data; OR, High School Diploma/GED and 8 years of experience.
• 2 years Pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Access.
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word.
• Experience using time management skills.
• Intermediate level skill in SQL or other querying applications.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues.
• Experience communicating both verbally and in writing to various audiences.
• Experience using business analytic skills.
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, economics, or mathematics or experience with inventory management/supply chain analytics and finance modeling.
• Retail experience.
• Experience developing strategic initiatives which align with business goals and budget.
• Experience directly managing people including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people.

Benefits

• An employee in this position can expect a salary rate between $77,100 and $197,300 plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable.
• The actual salary will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law.
• This job posting will remain open for 5 days from the job posting date.

Company Description

Founded in 1901, Walgreens proudly serves more than 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 211,000 team members, including roughly 85,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services.