Assistant Category Manager--Seasonal

Overview

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.

Are you passionate about driving innovation with compelling assortments and experiences? If so, there is a great opportunity to join CVS as an Assistant Category Manager of Seasonal. In this role, you will partner with your leadership to execute the strategy to drive these categories while amplifying the priorities for CVS Retail. You will participate in shaping the category strategy, at the direction of your leader, to drive the P&L to achieve sales, profitability and margin growth, along with training and development of future leaders.

You will own the P&L driving optimal and intentional business towards your category in a creative way. You will use your negotiating skills to immerse yourself in your category, sharing best practices with peers, the Senior Category Manager Leader and your Division Market Manager. You will use all available tactics including Assortment, Promotions, Extra Care, Digital, Social, Marketing, Store Brand and Supplier Capabilities to reach or exceed goals.

Your experience leading and influencing others (both directly and indirectly), and ability to clearly present to your Senior Category Manager and DMM leadership using top-notch presentation skills will be paramount to your success. You must leverage your prior experience to build influential presentations about your categories with a clear narrative leaving everyone in the meeting clearly aligned to the path forwards.

You will leverage your clearly defined prioritization skills to proactively anticipate the market and take calculated risks to grow your market share without risking profit on the P&L.

• Achieve revenue and margin goals by accomplishing market share growth. Manage all profit and loss targets to include sales, contribution of margin, inventory turns, GMROI and DOS.
• Leverage data, insights, and analytics to influence stakeholders and make 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.
• Drive P&L management and contribute to organizational improvement initiatives as directed.
• Establish and enforce policies and procedures that promote ethical behavior, compliance, and best practices.
• Foster and shape innovation by bringing ideas to market in an agile way, balancing growth potential against financial risk for the broader team.
• Deliver best-in-class merchandising experiences across in-store channels for Seasonal Gifting and lead strategy for Seasonal Gifting catalog, including leading negotiations with all suppliers.
• Develop growth and oversee category strategies rooted in an understanding of the customer and trends.
• Assign timelines and accountabilities for items, empowering the team to drive action steps to completion.
• Leverage thought partners to create and revisit the strategy as needed.
• Navigate ambiguity and change to achieve goals despite obstacles.
• Follow up on strategic initiatives and KPI performance.
• Drive assortment decisions through planograms and features, along with promotional activity strategy, slotting, forecasting and negotiations.

• 5+ years merchandising experience negotiating contracts with vendors in similar business models.
• Previous experience leading cross-functional teams and initiatives with a high degree of complexity.
• Experience developing strategies to mobilize the business to achieve goals using innovative solutions.
• Experience leveraging data to support strategic plans and return on investment.
• Experience engaging and inspiring a cross-functional team to reach optimal business outcomes together.
• Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including…