Function Lead, Fulfillment Center

Job Summary:

As a Function Lead at our Walgreens fulfillment center, you will serve as a pivotal leader, mentor, and coach to others. You will help team members unlock their full potential through personalized guidance and professional development. Your expertise will directly impact patient outcomes as you foster a culture of excellence within our closed-door pharmacy setting. You will build and nurture relationships with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. This position is located in our climate-controlled, closed-door pharmacy facility featuring automation technology and modern amenities.

While this is subject to change, an individual in this position would likely work the shift of roughly 6 AM to 2 PM local time Fridays through Tuesdays.

Job Responsibilities:

• Resolves and/or provides technical advice on complex or critical issues that have been escalated from Senior level roles. Serves as a resource for all representatives. Seeks guidance from Group Supervisor for the most complex and critical issues, questions, or problems.
• Supervises daily activates of all team members for scheduled shift and provides feedback and coaching of team members according to quality standards. Reports any necessary issues or concerns to Group Supervisor.
• Plans, prioritizes, organizes, and completes work to meet established objectives.
• Monitors trends and notifies Group Supervisor of recurring or high priority issues.
• Maintains records of customer and/or client interactions, records details, complaints, comments, and action taken. Responds to escalated inquiries or to notify them of investigation results and planned adjustments.
• Continues to look for ways to improve current processes with enhancements and ideas.
• Monitors team member performance by observing employee demeanor, technical accuracy, and conformity to company policies. Improves performance of the department by building team morale, motivating team members, and using constructive coaching.
• Identifies areas where additional development is needed and makes recommendations on how to achieve necessary results.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local laws, as well as company and facility policies and procedures. Maintains standards of performance in accordance with policies and procedures (e.g., HIPAA guidelines/regulations, insurance, and fraud abuse guidelines, required productivity levels, timeliness expectations, etc.).

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

• High school diploma/GED and at least two years of experience working in a pharmacy, retail OR fulfillment task-oriented environment.
• Willing to obtain a Board of Pharmacy technician license within the state mandated timeline OR currently holds a Board of Pharmacy technician license.
• Experience in identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing improvements to resolve problems.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English (except in Puerto Rico).
• Basic level PC skills (for example: start up and shut down computer, use mouse to point and click, start and close programs, switch between programs, save files, print documents and/or access information online).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish.
• Licensed as a Pharmacy Technician by the state Board of Pharmacy or nationally recognized certification agency and PTCB Certified.
• Process improvement, Lean or Six Sigma experience in a logistics setting.
• Experience in a facility that utilizes pharmacy dispensing technology
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships within a team.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: $23.5 - $31.35 / Hourly