Merchandising Business Acceleration - Senior Manager

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.

The Senior Manager, Business Acceleration will drive a portfolio of strategy, profit improvement, and localization initiatives across a subset of categories. This role will spend approximately half of their time focused on shopper-centric localization strategies including store clustering analysis, localized assortment development, and performance optimization. The other half is spent on business case development, vendor negotiations, category analytics, and cross functional‑functional thought partnership.

The Senior Manager level requires strong analytical skills, comfort with large data sets, excellent communication, and the ability to influence cross functionally. It offers significant exposure to Category Managers, Merchandising Directors/VPs, and partners across Merchandising.

 Primary Responsibilities:

Localization & Shopper-Centric‑Centric Assortment 

• Create and maintain shopper-centric store clusters by identifying drivers of store‑centric store clusters by identifying drivers of store‑level variation and local shopper needs. 

• Leverage best-in‑in‑class assortment analytics tools to tailor localized product assortments across assigned categories. 

• Partner with Category Managers and Visual Merchandising to operationalize their vision for a localized assortment 

• Translate complex data into actionable insights for cross-functional‑functional teams, ensuring clarity and alignment on localization strategies. 

• Monitor localized assortment performance, ensuring initiatives achieve financial targets; recommend and implement corrective actions as needed. 

• Follow and maintain localization best practices, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistency and quality across all localized assortments 
  

 Special Projects:

• Lead initiatives that drive incremental profitability improvement including negotiations and cost mitigation and business case development for new opportunities
    

Education:
Bachelor’s degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

Prior Relevant Work Experience
4+ years of relevant work experience

Essential Qualifications
Adept at problem solving and decision-making skills
Adept at collaboration and teamwork
Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills
Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills
Adept at business intelligence
Certified Product Manager (CPM) preferred.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

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Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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