Retail Merchandising Intern

Walgreens
Deerfield, Illinois, United StatesPosted Sep 28, 2026

About the role

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

The Merchandising Intern supports category growth by using data, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to identify opportunities across assortment, pricing, promotions, and category performance. The role partners with merchants and cross-functional teams to analyze business trends, develop recommendations, and contribute to strategic initiatives that improve the customer experience and drive sales.

Interns may own a defined merchandising project aligned to key business priorities and present findings and recommendations to merchandising leadership.

Job Responsibilities

  • Performs various activities that contribute to the strategy development

process for the assigned business unit.

  • Utilizes various tools and resources to analyze information and make

recommendations to support the business.

  • Provides general day to day support across the various divisions within

Walgreens.

  • Suggests recommendations to leadership for improving and updating policies

and processes.

  • May deliver a project aligning to strategic priorities and present to

manager/leadership upon completion.

About Walgreens

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

EXTERNAL BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program with 2 semesters remaining

upon start date

  • Experience communicating via written reports and presenting the information

in a formal or classroom setting.

  • Experience collaborating with teams
  • Basic level skill in Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint,

Excel).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Candidates pursuing a degree in Business, Economics, or a related field are

preferred.

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

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