Manager, Rx Purchasing and Supply Chain

Manager, Rx Purchasing And Supply Chain

Job Summary : Responsible for monitoring and maintaining data integrity for Rx items throughout various Walgreens reporting and data warehouse systems and using data to make recommendations to senior management (Decisions have significant pharmacy revenue impact). Responsible for planning and directing the development and implementation of new business analysis concepts. Direct, plan, and maintain the development of internal tools used to increase departmental efficiencies and aid in reporting and analytical capabilities of the department.

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 (such as whether pharma contract terms are beneficial to the Walgreens organization).
• 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 and maintains awareness of best practices.
• 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 (i.e. Walgreen Data Warehouse, ADR7, ADR4, EDW, custom departmental applications, Inventory Metrics, etc...). Demonstrates and develops team fluency in using key Office applications (i.e. Excel, Access, and Visual Basic for 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

About Walgreens : Founded in 1901, Walgreens 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.

The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com / benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

External Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.