Senior Specialist, Leadership Communications

Deerfield, IL

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Job Summary
As our Senior Specialist of Leadership Communications, you'll be at the heart of WBA and Walgreens strategic initiatives and events, crafting compelling messages that resonate with team members and other key stakeholders, including customers and patients. This role will be pivotal in ensuring our business goals are clearly, consistently and effectively communicated through our leaders, and you will be an important part of the team that creates and amplifies our leaders' messages.
If you're passionate about storytelling, strategic communication and making a difference, this is the opportunity for you.
Job Responsibilities

Strategic Messaging and Communications: Support the Leadership Communications team in developing and implementing compelling, multi-channel communication strategies that align with business goals and effectively engage target audiences.
Data-Driven Insights: Gather and analyze feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of leadership communications, summarizing findings into actionable reports that inform strategic planning.
Strategic Conference Planning: Identify, assess, and manage opportunities for executive participation at conferences, ensuring seamless coordination across the organization and with communications teams.
Additional Leadership Communications Support: Create and coordinate essential materials to support leadership and business initiatives, including toolkits, social media content, presentations and talking points.

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) 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.

Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients' care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.

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 More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com. Walgreens is an equal opportunity employer.

$79300 - $127000 / Salaried

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and at least one year of experience in Communications at a company/professional services firm OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 4 years of experience in Communications at a company/professional services firm
Experience writing short, action-based communications and plans
Experience communicating to various audiences (company management, team members, work team) with a focus on internal and electronic communications
Knowledge of communications best practices, such as design, development, and management of user-generated content (for example: social networking sites)
Experience accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary
Experience 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)
Willing to travel up to/at least (10%) of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a communications discipline (for example: mass communications, health communications, journalism, public relations)
Experience in communication plan development and project management.
Experience in human resources communications
Experience in healthcare and/or business communications

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

Salary Range$79300 - $127000 / Salaried

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