Finance Manager, Supply Chain

Job Summary:

Responsible for delivering financial expertise, strategic guidance, and business support for key areas across the Walgreens supply chain. Partners closely with Supply Chain leadership to evaluate financial impacts, inform decision ‑ making, and ensure resources are aligned to critical strategic priorities.

Leads financial support for supply ‑ chain initiatives aimed at improving operational efficiency, optimizing end ‑ to ‑ end network performance, and enabling long ‑ term transformation. Manages day ‑ to ‑ day financial inquiries for designated supply ‑ chain functions, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and timely insights that drive effective execution.

Contributes to the development and advancement of the enterprise supply ‑ chain strategy by engaging in cross ‑ functional identification, analysis, and resolution of issues that impact performance, cost structure, service levels, and future capabilities. Plays a key role in shaping and enabling the supply chain of the future by supporting initiatives spanning automation, digital enablement, inventory optimization, transportation efficiency, and distribution network evolution. #LI-NL1

This role is based in our Deerfield, IL office and is on‑site four days a week.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partners with business management to maintain a strong understanding of the key business drivers of the assigned area, specific business processes and priorities, and future strategic direction of the assigned area.
• Collaborates with business management and support teams to ensure strong execution, delivery of customer value and positive business results.
• Develops and fosters a cross-functional team approach, providing financial management support to all levels of the business team.
• Leads the preparation of the financial forecasts and budgets, including the identification/quantification of risks and opportunities; involves facilitating the negotiation and agreement of key operational metrics and inputs.
• Performs periodic analyses of variances as compared to plan, forecast and prior periods. Prepares presentations and documentation of budget and forecast information.
• Addresses issues with appropriate teams to develop plan of action. Identifies opportunities to improve processes and practices. Works with business and functional teams to develop consistent management reporting and processes.
• Supports monthly reviews and periodic business planning sessions. Involves evaluating financial and operational results, monitoring data and contributing to the development of key initiatives.
• Identifies and analyzes various investments and substantiates rationale for projects through business case developments.
• Directly manages team members including hiring, developing, motivating and directing people as they work, and manages teams indirectly across client and operational organizations (including assisting in the development, training and assignment of work/projects to other members of the team).
• Participates in medium term and strategic planning for the assigned business area.

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 2 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics.
• At least 2 years of experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve issues and problems.
• At least 2 years of experience in applying analytics principles (Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Business Management, Economics or Finance).
• At least 2 years of experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
• Experience working as the financial liaison on a business team.
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or MBA
• 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).

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits

Salary Range: $102800 - $164400 / Salaried