Analyst Supply Chain
Posted on: 14 Mar 2021
Deerfield, IL
Job Description
Job Summary
Responsible for providing specialized expertise to the Retail Working Capital (RWC) Forecasting project initiative that focuses on implementing a new forecasting system for our front end retail and online product sales. This role will provide moderately complex analysis of information throughout the project and support the transfer, testing, and training of existing reporting to the new solution. Analyzes and provides updates on the impact of current or proposed solutions. Pulls together and analyzes data to support validation and end user acceptance testing. Works with IT and software vendors to troubleshoot and resolve issues raised throughout the project. Ability to independently determine approach and actions necessary for new reports and tools. Assists in driving change as needed. Provides guidance and feedback to other analysts on the team. Supports strategic leadership and management within Inventory Management.
Job Responsibilities
* Performs moderately complex analysis of information, problems, and/or data under general supervision. Makes recommendations for the review of more senior staff members.
* Tracks, monitors and measures the benefit of implemented solutions for moderately complex issues, applying company policies and procedures in the resolution of a variety of issues. May also perform gap analysis.
* Communicates perceived risks to senior staff members and leadership with recommendations for mitigation.
* Computes metrics involving moderately complex issues.
* Develops, analyzes and disseminates moderately complex reports.
* Builds productive internal/external working relationships to work collaboratively. Shares knowledge with the team.
* Resolves moderately complex issues.
* Receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.
* Recommends streamlined processes and process improvements to more senior staff members. Assists in driving change as needed.
An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), a global leader in retail and wholesale pharmacy. As Americas most loved pharmacy, health and beauty company, Walgreens purpose is to champion the health and wellbeing of every community in America. Operating more than 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving approximately 8 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with platforms bringing together physical and digital, supported by the latest technology to deliver high-quality products and services in local communities nationwide.
Walgreens
Deerfield, IL
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and wellbeing company. It operates through three segments: Retail Pharmacy USA, Retail Pharmacy International, and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of retail products, including health, beauty, personal care, consumable, and general merchandise products through its retail drugstores and convenient care clinics. It also provides specialty pharmacy services and mail services; and manages in-store clinics. As of August 31, 2018, this segment operated 9,560 retail stores under the Walgreens and Duane Reade brands in the United States; and 7 specialty pharmacies, as well as approximately 400 in-store clinic locations.
The Retail Pharmacy International segment sells prescription drugs; and health, beauty, personal care, and other consumer products through its pharmacy-led health and beauty stores and optical practices, as well as through boots.com and an integrated mobile application. This segment operated 4,767 retail stores under the Boots, Benavides, and Ahumada in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Chile; and 618 optical practices, including 167 on a franchise basis.
The Pharmaceutical Wholesale segment engages in the wholesale and distribution of specialty and generic pharmaceuticals, health and beauty products, and home healthcare supplies and equipment, as well as provides related services to pharmacies and other healthcare providers. This segment operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, Egypt, Norway, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. The company has a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corporation. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
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IndustryBiopharmaceuticals
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No. of Employees244,000
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Jobs Posted21933
