Full-Time

General Merchandise

Category Manager

Posted on 4/29/2025

CVS Health

CVS Health

10,001+ employees

Comprehensive pharmacy and healthcare services

Compensation Overview

$60.3k - $145.9k/yr

+ Bonus + Commission + Short-term Incentive Program

Senior

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Smithfield, RI, USA + 1 more

More locations: Plantation, FL, USA

Travel requirements – up to 20% travel expected.

Category
Strategy Development
Business Development
Business & Strategy
Required Skills
Marketing
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
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
  • 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
  • Regular and reliable attendance during normal working hours, as established by the leader
  • Bachelor’s degree, OR equivalent experience
  • Travel requirements – up to 20% travel expected
Responsibilities
  • 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
  • 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
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills-strong presentation skills required
  • 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
Desired Qualifications
  • 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
  • Pivot priorities quickly to adapt to and meet changing business needs
  • Exhibit/model professional behaviors that are consistent with collaborating with senior leadership and that demonstrate a strong bias for inclusion, collaboration, building trust, driving for and delivering results as well as supporting innovation and change
  • Continuously accept feedback and where appropriate, create thoughtful recommendations to adapt governance strategy, involving appropriate stakeholders where needed for alignment
  • Deliver high quality professional communications, presentations, responses, and analyses on a wide range of requests by working quickly, independently and with minimal direction
  • Communicate clearly to small and large groups internally and externally to lead complex projects to completion
  • Collaborate cross functionally with leaders and colleagues’ enterprise wide to solution, implement, and drive results, including execution support where required
  • Plan, develop, and execute short- and long-term goals

CVS Health operates a large network of retail pharmacies and walk-in medical clinics across the United States, providing a variety of health-related products and services. The company serves individual consumers, businesses, and communities, offering prescription medications, over-the-counter health products, beauty items, and general merchandise. CVS Health also functions as a pharmacy benefits manager, managing benefits for over 75 million plan members, and has a senior pharmacy care business that serves more than one million patients each year. Their integrated approach allows them to offer affordable health management solutions, improving access to quality care and health outcomes while aiming to reduce overall healthcare costs. CVS Health's extensive market presence and diverse service offerings make it a significant player in the healthcare sector, focused on helping people achieve better health.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$3M

Headquarters

Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Founded

1963

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What believers are saying

  • CVS's partnership with DoorDash and Uber Eats expands delivery options for SNAP customers.
  • The launch of O Positiv Health products at CVS enhances women's health offerings.
  • CVS's new 3-in-1 test for flu and COVID-19 boosts testing capabilities.

What critics are saying

  • Closure of CVS locations may lead to customer dissatisfaction and market share loss.
  • Smaller-footprint stores could face challenges with limited retail offerings.
  • Partnership with Marqeta and Green Dot may increase operational complexity.

What makes CVS Health unique

  • CVS Health operates over 9,600 retail pharmacies and 1,100 walk-in clinics nationwide.
  • The company integrates pharmacy benefits management with over 75 million plan members.
  • CVS Health offers a comprehensive range of health-related products and services.

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