Specialist Marketing

Job Summary

We’re looking for a strategic and solutions-oriented Marketing Specialist to support brand and category marketing for Walgreens. The Marketing Specialist leverages customer insights, market trends, and business objectives to help deliver impactful marketing strategies and exceptional customer and patient experiences. You will act as the connective tissue between our internal teams including gathering product priorities from merchandising, ensuring compliance with legal, providing communications with proper messaging, and working with measurement to understand/optimize impact. Additionally, you will liaise with our external agency partners to ensure flawless execution across TV, paid digital, paid social, influencer and brand activations. You should be tapped into the latest cultural trends and marketing innovation, applying that knowledge to enhance customer-facing content and/or improve internal systems and process.

Job Responsibilities

• Assists in developing and implementing marketing programs to support Walgreens products and services.
• Works individually or with a team in recommending action, scheduling and planning projects, estimating cost and managing projects to completion.
• May identify and recommend marketing opportunities consistent with business objectives; provides marketing support to throughout the organization.
• May work to identify and implement marketing strategies and programs in collaboration business teams. Communicates new ideas to manager.
• Develops presentations and reports for the business to provide marketing information which may include marketing trends, competition, new products, and pricing.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of marketing or advertising experience.
• Knowledge of the methods, principles, and practices of marketing, advertising, and/or publishing.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as marketing, communications, or business administration.
• Master’s Degree or MBA.
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• 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).

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: $63100 - $101200 / Salaried