Assistant Category Manager – Consumables

Position Summary

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Drive Business Results (50%)
  • 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 are achieved.
  • Sales and margin goals to promote long-term success and partnership.
  • P&L management forecasting and pulling levers to drive P&L
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Relationship Building (35%)
  • 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.
  • Maintains a supplier relationship for JBP yearly planning, new item reviews and negotiations.
• Strategic Planning (15%)
  • 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 consumables and lead strategy for consumables 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.

Essential Qualifications And Functions

• The successful candidate will have a strong work ethic, be a self-starter, and able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge / skill / ability:
• 5+ years of proven experience in managing general consumable categories
• 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, et.
• 5+ years’ experience engaging and inspiring a cross-functional team to reach optimal business outcomes together
• Highly responsible and accountable for building strong business value
• Consistently leads by example and contributes to overall team success through a positive mindset and resiliency
• Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities
• Extensive knowledge of retail business operations, including front store merchandising
• Proven track record of the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external business partners to deliver ROI from effective targeting and communication strategies

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, OR equivalent experience

Pay Range

The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is $54,300.00 - $145,860.00 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.