Manager Business Applications Rx Inventory
Address: 200 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-04620-00001-2
ID de la oferta 1557789BR
Job Summary
Responsible for creating, monitoring and maintaining the processes and programs that control the pharmacy inventory across all pharmacy business units in the Company. Responsible for planning and directing the development and implementation of new business concepts, including discovering external software solutions and negotiating for purchasing such resources.
Job Responsibilities
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) 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.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients’ care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
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
Responsible for creating, monitoring and maintaining the processes and programs that control the pharmacy inventory across all pharmacy business units in the Company. Responsible for planning and directing the development and implementation of new business concepts, including discovering external software solutions and negotiating for purchasing such resources.
Job Responsibilities
- Creates, enhances, tests, audits and assists in the implementation of mathematical
- models/algorithms to control the ordering and distribution of pharmaceutical products for all pharmacy related business units in the Company.
- Leads simulation techniques designed to estimate affect and benefit of new ideas and monitors, analyzes and adjusts system parameters which control the levels of pharmacy inventory in these units.
- Maintains a full knowledge of the current Walgreen central ordering system applications as they relate to pharmacy inventory.
- Leads cross-functional project groups across the Pharmacy Purchasing and Supply Chain organization, Retail and Customer Solutions: Inventory Systems Development-Forecasting Replenishment Systems organization, Loss Prevention, Results, Logistics and Transportation team, Pharmacy Services to develop and implement new pharmacy inventory management programs.
- Identifies projects, articulates value propositions, 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.
- Maintains awareness of external inventory management systems and how they apply to current industry trends.
- When necessary; engages outside companies to investigate potential synergies, tests and audits these applications in the Walgreen store environment, makes recommendations on collaborations and if necessary, negotiates purchase and implementation of resources.
- Knowledge and experience with Walgreens organization, especially Rx Purchasing and Supply Chain functions and processes.
- Responsible for work leadership and training to other members of Rx Purchasing, including members of the management, analyst and coordinator groups.
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) 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.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients’ care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
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
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years experience working in store operations or developing/utilizing an inventory management system.
- At least two 2 years of experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
- Experience using business analytical skills including facilitating requirements sessions and documenting activity workflows and business requirements.
- Experience in identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
- Experience collaborating with internal resources, external resources, to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines.
- Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- Experience in the indirect management of team members, including assisting in the development, training and assignment of work/projects to other members of a team.
- Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.
- Willing to travel up to/at least 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a Pharmacy.
- Advanced degree in Math or Statistics.
- Experience using the Walgreens SIMS system
- Knowledge of Computer Programming
Salary Range$102800 - $164400 / Salaried
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