Adult Beverage Senior Analyst

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Job Purpose and 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 Adult Beverage Team is seeking a detail-oriented and results-driven Senior Analyst to support our Front Store Merchandising organization. This position will play a critical role in shaping the customer experience across 5,000+ 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 can not only identify complex problems but implement solutions and drive strategic changes across the alcohol category as well as support larger business unit/front store challenges outside their assigned category. Candidates should be able to clearly present to Alcohol Directors, Field Leadership, and External Supplier/Distributor leadership. A successful Senior Analyst will leverage strong prioritization skills to proactively anticipate the market and take calculated, well supported risks to grow CVS/category market share while balancing P&L financial impacts. Candidates must be able to successfully:

• Be a strong developer of relationships- build strong, credible and trusted cross-functional relationships
• Be able to influence with, and without authority- so much of the day-to-day business practice is to influence others
• Be highly organized and prioritize- work on work that has the most value reprioritizing as the strategies adjust
• Be self-directed- require little supervision as successful candidates drive themselves and the portfolio of work they lead
• Be highly analytical- ensure the analysis is strong, intentional and thoughtful
• Be innovative- consistently look for better ways to do things and share those ideas, or recommendations, with others

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develops pricing strategies through distributor cost collection, assigned state pricing, and adhering to state margin goals.
• Analyzes and optimizes item assortment, develops plans to maximize their value, and provides recommendations for improvements.
• Conducts in-depth analysis of the performance, risks, and potential returns of alcohol assets in assigned states.
• Monitors and analyzes sales performance and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the alcohol category and generates reports to evaluate the effectiveness of category strategies and make data-driven recommendations for improvement.
• Communicate and manage DSD distributors to ensure store instock.
• Communicate, educate, and create resources for field leaders and stores to execute the alcohol category.
• Guides and trains alcohol analyst team.  Creates SOP and training documents.
• Manage store closing and new license process.  Partner with licensing/legal to ensure compliance.
• Be up to date on industry information through supplier meetings and continued education training on alcohol topics.
• Coordinate and manage New Item set up and maintenance for planogram and mid-year items.
• Coordinate and manage of off-shelf programs with key suppliers, setting up programs and running off-shelf reporting.

Education

Required: High School Diploma or GED

Preferred: Bachelor Degree

Prior Relevant Experience:

Require: 3-5 Years

Preferred: 5-8 Years

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$46,988.00 - $102,00