Assistant Category Manager - Consumables (Beverage, Soda, Dairy)

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Position Summary

Are you passionate about driving innovation with compelling assortments and experiences? If so, there is a great opportunity to join CVS as an Assistant Category Manager as part of the CVS Hispanic Strategy Consumables and General Merchandise Team. In this role, you will partner with your leadership to execute the strategy to drive these categories while amplifying the priorities for CVS Retail.

The purpose of the Assistant Category Manager role in is to participate in shaping the category strategy, at the direction of your leader, to drive the P&L to achieve sales, profitability and margin growth, along with training and development of future leaders. In this role you will have ownership of the P&L driving optimal and intentional business towards your category in a creative way. You will use your negotiating skills to immerse yourself in your category, readily sharing best practices with your peers, Senior Category Manager Leader and your Division Market Manager. You will use all available tactics including Assortment, Promotions, ExtraCare, Digital, Social, Marketing, Store Brand and Supplier Capabilities to reach or exceed goals.

To be successful in this role, you must be an excellent communicator (both written and verbal), have experience leading and influencing others (both directly and indirectly), and be able to clearly present to your Senior Category Manager and DMM leadership using your top-notch presentation skills. You must leverage your prior experience to build influential presentations about your categories with a clear narrative leaving everyone in the meeting clearly aligned to the path forwards. You will leverage your clearly defined prioritization skills to proactively anticipate the market and take calculated risks to grow your market share without risking profit on the P&L. If this sounds like the role for you, apply today.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Drive Business Results (50%)

• 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

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Relationship Building (35%)

• 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.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitates collaboration between different departments to promote a cohesive and integrated approach to achieving organizational goals.

• Drives change agility in self, team and network. 35%

• 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

Strategic Planning (15%)

• Fosters and shape innovation by bringing ideas to market