Assistant Category Manager, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:
United States, Plantation, Florida

Category:
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Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

60300.00 - 145860.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care. As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Job Responsibility:

Drive Business Results
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Relationship Building
Strategic Planning
Achieves revenue and margin goals by accomplishing market share growth
Manages all profit and loss targets to include sales, contribution of margin, inventory turns, GMROI and DOS
Leverages data, insights, and analytics to influence stakeholders and makes recommendations as appropriate
Vendor management, collaborates and negotiates with manufacturers and vendors ensuring strategies achieve in-year sales and margin goals to promote long-term success and partnership
P&L management forecasting and pulling levers to drive P&L
At the direction of the Senior Category Manager or DMM, fully embraces organizational improvement initiatives, acting as a change agent with one’s own team and peers and partners
Establishes and enforces policies and procedures that promote ethical behavior, compliance, and best practices
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitates collaboration between different departments to promote a cohesive and integrated approach to achieving organizational goals
Drives change agility in self, team and network
Measures retention and key performance indicator results on an ongoing basis and provides recurring readout to senior leadership in partnership with cross functional business leads
Leverages a results-oriented mindset, using metrics to monitor improvements
Develops and manages a standardized set of views that are used to internally monitor macro-level trends and key drivers of each
Influences at all levels – up to and including cross-functional SVPs
Develops and cultivates collaborative teams within support areas of Marketing, Legal, Digital, Inventory, Pricing, Promotion, Finance, Store Brands, Store Design, Supply Chain, and Store Operations
Maintains a supplier relationship for JBP yearly planning, new item reviews and negotiations
Fosters and shape innovation by bringing ideas to market in an agile way, while balancing growth potential against financial risk for the broader team
Drives the team to deliver best-in-class merchandising experiences across in-store channel for {insert categories} and lead strategy for {insert categories} catalog, including leading negotiations with all suppliers
Develops growth and oversee category strategies rooted in an understanding of the customer and trends
Assigns appropriate timelines and accountabilities for items, empowering the team to drive action steps to completion
Leverages thought partners (Senior leaders, corporate partners, peers, team, etc.) as needed to create and revisit the strategy
Navigates ambiguity and change to achieve goals despite potential obstacles
Follows up on strategic initiatives and KPI performance
Drives assortment decisions through planograms and features
Drives promotional activity strategy, slotting, forecasting and negotiations

Requirements:

5+ years of total merchandising experience
5+ years’ experience negotiating contracts with vendors in similar business models
5+ years’ experience leading cross-functional teams and initiatives with a high degree of complexity
5+ years developing strategies to mobilize the business to achieve goals and outcomes using innovative solutions
5+ years influencing with and without authority
5+ years leveraging data to support strategic plans and return on investment
5+ years’ experience working with a team to prioritize work based on skills, needs, timelines, etc
5+ years’ experience engaging and inspiring a cross-functional team to reach optimal business outcomes together
Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities
Extensive knowledge of retail business operations, including front store merchandising
Bachelor’s degree, OR equivalent experience

Nice to have:

Strong executive presence and business acumen
Superior ability to influence without authority and build relationships quickly
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to large audiences and senior leaders
Balancing, coordinating, and executing multiple competing priorities across multiple stakeholders
Delegation and assignment of responsibilities within a project to appropriate stakeholders
Influencing without authority to align multiple stakeholders to a common goal and hold teams accountable for delivering results
Framing complex problems and developing solutions that address multiple interests with minimal guidance or direction
Identifying risk and mitigation strategies to ensure success
Using critical thinking and strategy to balance multiple stakeholders needs (e.g. patient, customer, executives, business owners, enterprise)
Demonstrating strong attention to detail and follow through with commitments

What we offer:

Affordable medical plan options
401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
Employee stock purchase plan
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching
Paid time off
Flexible work schedules
Family leave
Dependent care resources
Colleague assistance programs
Tuition assistance
Retiree medical access

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 26, 2025

Expiration:
April 30, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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