Health & Wellness Category Specialist – Hispanic Strategy Team

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.

Position Summary

CVS Health has a powerful purpose – “Bringing our heart to every moment of your health.” To enable this purpose, we have several initiatives, existing and new, that are re-inventing pharmacy and enabling better health outcomes. In the Merchandising Organization, we support our company’s purpose and our Pharmacy and Consumer Wellness vision to be America’s most trusted health, wellness and pharmacy care partner, delivering differentiated omnichannel experiences and meeting consumers where they are.

The Hispanic Strategy BPC, Health & Wellness Team is seeking a detail-oriented and results-driven Analyst to support our Front Store Merchandising organization. This position will play a critical role in shaping the customer experience across 7,000+ stores. This position is instrumental in delivering the best products and promotions to our customers by leveraging strong analytical skills to evaluate sales trends, identify opportunities and optimize merchandising strategies.

The ideal candidate thrives on solving complex problems, developing actionable insights, and creating mitigation strategies to address business challenges. With a focus on data-driven decisions-making, this role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions and enhance our product offerings and promotional effectiveness. 
 

Responsibilities

• Supports the execution and coordination of promotional and advertising activity for BPC & Healthcare categories, including ad submissions, offer updates, block validation, and timing alignment across managed banners. 15%
• Coordinates New Item setup and ongoing SKU maintenance, including item adds/removals, manual uploads, validation of item data, and assist ongoing planogram and mid‑year updates between Category Managers and Suppliers. 20%
• Manages off‑shelf programs and event execution support with key suppliers, including program setup, and tracking. 10%
• Serves as a key point of contact for supplier coordination and issue resolution, including testing requirements (e.g., TTBT), sample tracking, availability issues, and execution readiness. 15%
• Supports Product Assurance processes, ensuring accurate SKU lists, schedule validation, supplier follow‑up, and on‑time completion of required testing activities and expansion requests. 10%
• Develops and maintains operational reports, trackers, and logs to support visibility into ad execution, item status, supplier readiness, and ongoing category initiatives. 10%
• Coordinates closely with Category Managers, Inventory Planning, Marketing Operations, Product Assurance, CPG Suppliers and Analytics to ensure accurate execution of category and promotional plans. 10%
• Actively participates in team meetings, workflow planning, and coverage coordination to ensure continuity of execution and operational excellence. 10%

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of full-time work experience in a retail and/or corporate environment
• 2+ years’ experience using pricing/promotional strategies, including customer research, problem definition, prototype development and iteration, etc.
• 2+ years experience building and delivering leadership-facing presentations and materials
• 2+ years’ experience analyzing and synthesizing data
• 2+ years’ experience successfully building reports and dashboards to communicate data trends and forecasts
• 1+ year experience analyzing market trends
• Strong interpersonal skills as demonstrated by successful collaboration to achieve shared goals
• Strong time management skills, evidenced by experience being accountable to multiple deliverables on staggered deadlines
• Strong personal integrity and judgment, evidenced by a track record of managing highly-sensitive or highly-visible business matters
• Strong communication skills in both formal and informal writing and speech
• Strong ability to build fast, credible relationships with leaders, peers and clients
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to process data, identify problems, and make effective decisions
• Basic awareness of problem solving and decision making skills
• Proven track record of high performance
• Demonstrated growth mindset and willingness to learn and accept feedback
• Regular and relia