Merchandising Assistant- Wine, Spirits, and Perishables

Summary

Provides coordination support for the planning, strategy, and systemization of purchasing operations. Communicates with facilities personnel, other company departments, and outside representatives to resolve issues and discrepancies regarding reports, shipping, scheduling, and other problems or questions that arise. Expedites and tracks purchase order status to ensure proper shipping, scheduling, and receipt of orders lows through with the appropriate departments to maintain adequate inventory levels and cost savings for the company.

• Performs general administrative tasks, including sorting and routing mail, printing and running reports, organizing supply drawers, creating systems for office files, preparing documents (e.g., scanning, printing, copying), sending items for imaging, answering questions about management schedules, and greeting visitors.
• Responds to questions from new and existing vendors, stores, customers, and other department personnel regarding error corrections, category items and inventory, meetings, ad requests, resets/revisions, and related inquiries.
• Provides department support on various projects and tasks, such as creating PowerPoint slides, formatting Excel files, responding to legal contract review requests, tracking ad type/items over multiple ad dates, conducting comparison shops, tracking hot inventory, setting planograms, and reviewing printed and set planograms for accuracy.
• Assumes responsibilities for other Merchandising Assistants within the department when unavailable.
• Creates, enters, and updates purchasing‑related information (e.g., seals, call‑ins, P.O.’s, DLs, ASTDs, re‑class requests) using various systems (e.g., Decision Web, ADR7, Wal Net, AIS Online).
• Reviews and researches information in purchasing reports (e.g., overlapping deals, scan verification, discontinued DC inventory, divisional ad bulletins, 1506 claims, cost changes, aged and unapproved deals, GP Summary, customer complaints, SDD item vendor conflict report) to verify data, find errors, and recommend inventory and financial adjustments.
• Maintains processes for items, deals, reset/revision, spreadsheets, vendor information, requests, filing, artwork, ad planning, and new items.
• Trains new Merchandising Assistants on job functions, as needed.

• High School Diploma/GED and at least one year of experience in a retail environment.
• Experience using time‑management skills such as prioritizing, organizing, and tracking details while meeting deadlines for multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience with Microsoft Office.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within and outside the state).

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Knowledge of Walgreens marketing/purchasing systems and processes.
• Intermediate skill in Microsoft Excel (e.g., SUM function, setting borders, column width, inserting charts, text wrap, sorting, header/footer, print scaling).
• Intermediate skill in Microsoft Word (e.g., inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers, tables, adjusting column widths).
• Intermediate skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (e.g., applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting pictures, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, formatting chart style).

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

$22.71 - $33.32 / Hourly