[Hiring] Merchandising Business Acceleration - Senior Manager @CVS Health

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Business Acceleration will drive a portfolio of strategy, profit improvement, and localization initiatives across a subset of categories. This role will spend approximately half of their time focused on shopper-centric localization strategies including:

• Store clustering analysis
• Localized assortment development
• Performance optimization

The other half is spent on:

• Business case development
• Vendor negotiations
• Category analytics
• Cross-functional thought partnership

The Senior Manager level requires strong analytical skills, comfort with large data sets, excellent communication, and the ability to influence cross-functionally. It offers significant exposure to Category Managers, Merchandising Directors/VPs, and partners across Merchandising.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification
• 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Adept at problem solving and decision-making skills
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork
• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills
• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills
• Adept at business intelligence
• Certified Product Manager (CPM) preferred

Requirements

• Create and maintain shopper-centric store clusters by identifying drivers of store-level variation and local shopper needs
• Leverage best-in-class assortment analytics tools to tailor localized product assortments across assigned categories
• Partner with Category Managers and Visual Merchandising to operationalize their vision for a localized assortment
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for cross-functional teams, ensuring clarity and alignment on localization strategies
• Monitor localized assortment performance, ensuring initiatives achieve financial targets; recommend and implement corrective actions as needed
• Follow and maintain localization best practices, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistency and quality across all localized assortments
• Lead initiatives that drive incremental profitability improvement including negotiations and cost mitigation and business case development for new opportunities

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs and other resources, based on eligibility