Sr. Analyst, Market Planning and Research

Description
The Market Strategy division of Walgreens offers an opportunity to proactively guide the company’s growth by providing unbiased, market-centric strategic direction. Our objective is to be the market experts for the execution of Walgreens initiatives; we do this by providing unbiased analytical research and strategies to support the implementation of corporate goals in each market. In Market Strategy, we routinely work with top executives, Vice Presidents in our Operations area, our internal Real Estate team, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Walgreens Health Services to develop growth strategies that proactively ensure Walgreen’s growth in profits and market share. Individuals from the start directly contribute to the strategic development and growth of a dynamic corporation. We target new and existing market growth opportunities and work to maximize our sales and earnings using the most advanced GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology, as well as proprietary business, analytic, and statistical models.

Job Responsibilities:
1. Drive results and change through innovation in research methods and insights about performance in a changing retail environment.
2. Develop hypotheses and identify data required to solve a given problem.
3. Facilitate the implementation of strategic recommendations.
4. Proactively seek opportunities to add critical value to clients, markets, department, and company.
5. Facilitate the implementation of strategic recommendations with a market team.
6. Build effective teams and foster collaboration among them and other department members.
7. Create and present impactful, concise presentations to executive management.
8. Prioritize and self-manage among multiple tasks and ad-hoc requests.
9. Manage team project assignments.

Basic Qualifications:
* MBA or Bachelor’s degree with 1 year experience in a quantitative, analytical role (solving problems and breaking complex issues into manageable parts).
* Experience communicating both verbally (presentations, phone, one-on-one) and in writing (e-mail, letters, recommendations) to all levels of management and cross-functional business units.
* Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Office 2003: Word (creating and modifying text styles, numbering and sorting lists, working with sections and columns, formatting tables, and using templates and using diagrams and drawing tools), Excel (formatting text and borders of cells, working with workbooks and worksheets, using range names, referencing cells, sorting, and auto filtering) and PowerPoint (creating presentations, adding and removing slides, entering and formatting text, applying design templates, modifying masters, inserting graphics and objects, creating handouts).

Preferred Qualifications:
* MBA
* Bachelors Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Geography, Finance or Business-related discipline.
* Experience in site location analysis.
* 1 year of experience using GIS, either in school or workplace (Geographic Information Systems).
* Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.