Category Manager - Health and Wellness - Senior

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.

Position Summary

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.

As a Senior Category Manager, you are responsible for driving revenue & margin growth, as well as innovation and strategy within the businesses in your span of control.  In this role, you will have senior category merchant responsibilities for the following Wellness categories—Diet & Nutrition, Fitness, Children’s Remedies and Vitamins—totaling a $1.5B business.  

You will also be responsible for leading a dynamic team of merchants and cross functional partners to drive category growth and serve our customers.

In this role, you will: 

• Deliver sales and margin goals by attaining market share and thoughtfully managing all lines of the category P&L 
• Lead and manage vendor 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 (both physical & digital) that drive trust & trips with our customers.
• Develop and implement 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 collaborating internally with CVS partners (e.g., Inventory, Pricing, Promotion, Finance, Store Brands, Store Design and Store Operations) and supplier partners.
• Lead and develop other colleagues including but not limited to Category Managers, Assistant Category Managers, and Senior analyst. 
• Collaborate with internal & external partners to deliver compelling experiences. 
• Partner closely with the CVS Digital team to strengthen the CVS.com position within the market, ensuring omni capabilities are an integral part of the experience. 
• Develop and continually sustain a strong understanding of current competition as well as search out new competitive opportunities.
• Customer obsessed - driving inclusive business strategies. 
• Contribute to the development and execution of General Merchandise initiatives.

• 10+ years category management experience, with a track record of meeting, or exceeding, financial objectives and P&L ownership.
• Proven track record of influencing others with and without authority
• Experience building high-performing, successful teams developing key talent. Demonstrated passion for bringing new leaders along and helping them realize their ability to impact the business.
• Experience leading under pressure, adapting to changing dynamics in real time, and finding solutions that satisfy multiple ‘customers’ of the business.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, very strong interpersonal and presentation skills and strong executive presence
• Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities.
• Travel- Ability, and willingness, to travel regularly, 20% of time, based on needs of the business.

• 15+ years category management experience, with a track record of meeting, or exceeding, financial objectives and P&L ownership.
• experience leveraging a strategic mindset with the ability to develop and execute category and merchandisi