Senior Business Analyst (Remote)

Job Summary

Responsible for pulling, analyzing, and summarizing pharmacy purchasing data to deliver actionable recommendations to management. Develops and maintains a strong understanding of pharmaceutical purchasing, distribution, and dispensing processes while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of Rx cost and item-level data across Walgreens reporting systems. Leads continuous improvement initiatives, researches data issues, and provides data-driven solutions. Plans, develops, and maintains internal tools to enhance departmental efficiency, reporting, and analytical capabilities. Senior analyst works on more complex and high-profile opportunities and is a point of contact for others within the department and provides leadership and training to business analysts.

Job Responsibilities
  • Identifies and documents marketing, customer, business and functional/technical business requirements initiatives and enhancements to existing products.
  • Understands and translates requirements in the format required for both product and system development.
  • Under general supervision, performs analysis of complex business products and operational requirements and successful development and deployment of product solutions.
  • Builds the business case and performs financial analysis.
  • Supports department stakeholders to organize, plan, schedule, coordinate and control project activities and documentation applicable to business analysis. Owns key processes and documentation applicable to business analysis.
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.

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree and at least 1 years product management experience. OR High School/GED and at least 3 years product management experience
  • Experience with product management (planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
  • Experience in economic modeling and business case development within Walgreens and B2B environments.
  • Experience with B2B products and services.
  • Experience using business analytical skills including facilitating requirements sessions and documenting activity workflows and business requirements.
  • Experience with regulatory requirements.
  • Experience with MS Office Suite.
  • Experience creating and delivering marketing presentations to senior management.
  • Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: creating pivot tables, vlookups, nested if statements, etc.)
  • Advanced level skill using Microsoft Access and/or PowerBI/data visualization software
  • Intermediate 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 pulling, analyzing, and summarizing data to deliver actionable recommendations to management

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

>>Salary Range: $71400 - $114300 / Salaried<<



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