Senior Category Manager - Cosmetics
Address: 106 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05123-01106-2
Job ID 1523214BR
Job Summary:
Responsible for managing revenue and overall profits and losses (P&L) for most complex and/or multiple groups of categories. May manage responsibilities through oversight of associate and category managers. Develops the customer centric strategic plan for each category. Manages ongoing business through insight-led decision making, assortment optimization, category marketing, visual merchandising, and vendor management to optimize ROIC.
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Job Responsibilities
About Walgreens
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.
Responsible for managing revenue and overall profits and losses (P&L) for most complex and/or multiple groups of categories. May manage responsibilities through oversight of associate and category managers. Develops the customer centric strategic plan for each category. Manages ongoing business through insight-led decision making, assortment optimization, category marketing, visual merchandising, and vendor management to optimize ROIC.
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Job Responsibilities
- Oversees development and determines merchandising, display, advertising, distribution, packaging and sales plans and programs for highly complex items and multiple merchandise departments.
- Negotiates buying contracts and obtains most advantageous pricing. Manages day-to-day vendor relationships and growth opportunities.
- Uses market, competitive, and customer perceptions analyses to set and adjust item price levels.
- Aggressively manages category performance by establishing category goals and building financial models to predict ROIC. Utilizes innovative methods to predict performance of more complex merchandise.
- Demonstrates category ownership by creating and defending all planogram category strategies and decisions with sound analytics. Delegates analytic tasks to key support functions and synthesizes results.
- Provides division leadership with business case for promotions/ROTO spots, including promotional productivity forecast and product performance sensitivity analyses.
- Manages the translation of marketing and consumer insights into innovative assortment merchandising decisions to drive return on most complex categories. Champions the weekly category meetings with merchant support to manage category performance.
- Maintains an understanding of Walgreens and WBA private brands, including assortment and projected sales forecasts, gross profit level, and merchandising and promotional programs. Works with the DMM to project sales forecases and gross profit levels within the assigned categories.
- Cultivates team moral, motivation, and loyalty through continuous training and mentorship, setting obtainable performance goals, providing clear communication and constructive feedback.
About Walgreens
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.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years’ experience in two or more of the following: retail, procurement/purchasing, merchandising, vendor relations, pharmacy operations, or retail marketing OR a high school diploma/GED and at least 9 years of experience in two or more of the following: retail, procurement/purchasing, merchandising, vendor relations, pharmacy operations, or retail marketing.
- At least 2 years’ experience working with P&L concepts – revenue, cogs, gross profit margin, operating expenses and income
- Knowledge of customer centric retailing principles and the analytics of customer purchase behavior.
- At least 4 years of experience developing strategic programs in merchandising, vendor relations, and marketing in the retail business.
- Knowledge of retail business financial concepts, to include penny profit market, mark-up percents, turns and ROI.
- Experience collaborating on analysis for market potential evaluation, pricing, and promotions.
- Knowledge of marketing and promotional strategies and methods.
- 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).
- Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
- At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
- At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership.
- Willing to travel up to 10 % of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing people, projects and/or cross functional teams.
- At least 2 years of experience in negotiating deals.
Salary Range$136000 - $231300 / Salaried
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