Inventory Specialist

Inventory Specialist – Walgreens

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$17.00/hr - $20.00/hr

• Executing, monitoring, and training inventory best practices and standard operating procedures for the entire store, including both front end and pharmacy. Supporting pharmacy inventory activities such as receiving, counting, ordering, and facilitating returns. Championing On‑Shelf Availability and handling all in‑store inventory processes including receiving, counting, pricing, and returns. Validating and ensuring accuracy of planograms.
• Reviewing and coordinating the proper use of reports and system applications that affect the accuracy of front end and pharmacy on‑hand balances and pricing.
• Executing and maintaining front end and pharmacy asset protection techniques, filing claims for warehouse and vendor overages, shortages, order errors or damaged goods, including prescription drugs.
• Opening and closing the store in the absence of store management, performing all required system start‑ups, cash handling, cashier responsibilities, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day.
• Engaging customers by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. When serving as the leader on duty, resolving customer issues and answering questions to ensure a positive customer experience.
• Modeling and sharing customer service best practices to deliver a distinctive and delightful customer experience, including interpersonal habits (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., proactive help, need identification, full service).
• Executing and coaching team members on warehouse and vendor inventory management processes, including creating, reviewing, and receiving orders.
• Scanning all deliveries while the vendor is still in the store, including common carrier deliveries. Focusing on One Box receiving and taking appropriate action to mark delivery as received, contacting vendors for undelivered scheduled receipts, and opening tickets as needed.
• Under the supervision of the pharmacist‑in‑charge, verifying all pharmacy shipments are posted for physically received products, completing or verifying postings of pharmacy warehouse orders, ABC prescription and OTC orders, secondary vendor orders, flu and dropship orders, performing tote audits, and reporting shortages or damages.
• Completing the On‑Shelf Availability (OSA) end‑to‑end process, including warehouse and direct store delivery (DSD) for planogrammed departments, executing disposals, call‑ins, vendor returns before expiration, and completing scan‑outs/scan‑out returns for all subscribed departments, vendor/DSD departments, and pharmacy.
• Under the supervision of the pharmacist‑in‑charge, completing pharmacy inventory activities such as recalls following Pharmacy Hazardous Waste Policy, vendor returns, non‑controlled and damaged salvage returns, facilitating excess inventory returns or interstore pharmacy transfers for non‑returnable ABC overstock, and verifying posting of all pharmacy prescription claims.
• Executing all pricing activities, including price changes, markdowns, and markdown deletes. Responsible for basic department pricing, daily price changes, accurate pricing with correct signage, and timely completion of additional regulatory pricing tasks.
• Supporting front end and pharmacy ordering by ordering expense items, monitoring pharmacy manual orders to identify excess orders, and maintaining consigned inventory as required.
• Ensuring all designated pull & quarantine items on‑hand are updated and placed in the designated holding area.
• Maintaining accurate inventory counts and ensuring the accuracy of on‑hand quantities for basic departments, stock room, and over‑stock locations.
• Maintaining accurate pharmacy inventory counts and completing pharmacy smart counts under the pharmacist‑in‑charge.
• Ensuring the store maintains inventory compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic…