Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Walgreens is a pharmacy, retail, and health services company seeking a Business Analyst to support its Pharmacy Purchasing department. The role analyzes business processes, develops cost-benefit analyses, provides recommendations, and supports strategic planning, competitive analysis, and company positioning related to pharmaceutical purchasing and distribution.
Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business processes and industry practices pertaining to purchasing, distributing, and dispensing of pharmaceutical products
- Develops and presents cost-benefit analyses of proposed programs and makes specific recommendations tied to the business goals of the department and Company
- Collects, analyzes and presents information pertaining to long-term planning and strategic goals of the Pharmacy Purchasing department
- Works on projects in strategy development, industry trends, competitive analysis, and company positioning as it relates to pharmacy purchasing and distribution
Skills
- Bachelor's degree OR, High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Suite Microsoft Excel (for example: MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates
- Willing to travel up to/at least 5% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or Mathematics
- Basic level skill in SQL (for example: build queries, add, modify, and delete data; create and maintain tables, query and update databases using SQL statements, etc)
- Experience with EDW/Teradata, business objects, data warehouse applications, ADR7, and other Walgreens internal systems
- Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards and evaluation of customer satisfaction
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