Adult Beverage Field – Category Manager

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

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 Adult Beverage Team is seeking a detail-oriented and results-driven Adult Adult Beverage Field – Category Manager to support our East Front Store Merchandising organization. This position executes category priorities, navigates supplier and distributor relationships, and partners with field leadership to execute priorities.

Candidates should be able to clearly present to Field Leadership and External Supplier/Distributor leadership. A successful Adult Adult Beverage Field – Category Manager will leverage strong prioritization skills to proactively anticipate the market and take calculated, well supported risks to grow CVS/category market share while balancing state level P&L financial impacts.

Candidates must be able to successfully:

• Deliver state level sales and margin goals by growing market share and thoughtfully managing all lines of the state P&L. 
• Lead and manage supplier and distributor relationships, collaborating and negotiating extensively with manufacturers and vendors to ensure brand and product strategies drive sales and profitability, as well as creating assortments and experiences that drive trust & trips with our customers
• Execute category plans (i.e., plan optimal SKU mix; Extracare loyalty program; weekly, seasonal, annual promotional programs) for merchandising programs that reflect deep personal knowledge of our businesses, customers and client
• Initiate and execute strategic promotional strategies and marketing plans by leading local adult beverage teams on strategic pricing and promotional programs.
• Be a strong developer of relationships- build strong, credible and trusted cross-functional relationships to ensure compliance and consistent customer experiences.
• Be an nible and influential leader – drive execution with local suppliers, local distributors, and CVS field teams
• Influence without authority – lead external category support partners to execute category priorities, annual planograms, and programming.
• Develop and continually sustain a strong understanding of current competition as well as search out new competitive opportunities
   

Core Job Duties:
 

Strategic Localized Planning:

• Drive local assortment decisions through planograms and features.  Execute those decisions through the national category priorities.
• Execute category timelines and initiatives.
• Create resources, training documents, and merchandise planners to communicate category priorities
• Work with analyst team on store closing, remodel, reset and new licenses. 
• Maintain field communication on shared sites, maintain supplier and distributor contacts by store
• Develops local growth and oversee category strategies rooted in an understanding of the customer and trends.
• Navigates ambiguity and change to achieve goals despite potential obstacles.
• Champions innovation by bringing ideas to Director in an agile way, while balancing growth against financial risk and incremental cost to the organization
• Navigate complexities in DSD replenishment.
   

Work Cross Functionally:

• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers and distributors to drive execution and follow-up on adult beverage priorities
• Foster collaborative relationships with CVS Region and District leadership. 
• Manage local distributor execution and adherence to JBP expectations 
• In market visits with local distributors, suppliers, and field leadership to audit execution
• Fully embraces organizational improvement initiatives, acting as a change agent with one’s own team and peers and partners.
• Establishing and enforcing policies and procedures that promote ethical behavior, compliance, and best p