Senior Manager, Merchandising Business Acceleration

CVS Health • Woonsocket, RI

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About The Position

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. Position Summary The Senior Manager, Merchandising 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—and the remaining half on strategy and profit improvement work, including vendor negotiations, category analytics, and cross‑centric localization strategies—including store clustering analysis, localized assortment development, and performance optimization—and the remaining half on strategy and profit improvement work, including vendor negotiations, category analytics, and cross-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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in consulting, retail or similar roles
• Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities, with a proven ability to analyze issues, evaluate options, and drive sound, timely solutions.
• Highly effective collaborator who builds strong relationships, works seamlessly in team environments, and contributes to shared goals.
• Demonstrates a strong growth mindset with agility in learning, adapting, and developing both self and others.
• Reliable in execution and delivery, with strengths in planning, prioritizing, and consistently completing work with accuracy and accountability.

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

Benefits

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level