CVS Health continues to grow! We have a great opportunity for an Assistant Category Manager, Cosmetics. In this important role, you'll be responsible for attaining budgeted sales, contribution margin, inventory turns, and building market share within the category. This position will develop skills needed to support promotional strategy, display opportunities and planogram development and execution. The ACM will work under the guidance of SCM and report directly to SCM . The candidate will help guide the category specialists consistent with the business strategies and will work closely with cross functional partners. Additionally, the role will lead special projects intricate to the growth of the cosmetics business and will help develop annual category business plans for 1, 3 and 5 years out as well was category strategic plans for weekly, seasonal and annual merchandising programs and maintain competitive analysis, including competitive digital and store analysis and market visits.
In this role you will also be:

• Managing a full Vendor portfolio and collaborating and negotiating with the supplier partners to build our strong sales and margin driving plans.
• Support the development of the business cases and execution plans for key strategic initiatives, rooted in deep insights on the consumer, product, and competitive trends.
• Developing and implementing category plans (i.e., plan optimal SKU mix; Extra Care loyalty program; weekly, seasonal, annual promotional programs) for merchandising programs from 1 to 3 years that reflect deep personal knowledge of our businesses, customers, and clients.
• Managing assortment across store and digital channels

As an Assistant Category Manager for Acne/HSC you will operate within the Merchandising area and will lead a Category Specialist as well as collaborate closely with a large cross-functional team including individuals from Pricing, Promotional Planning, Marketing, Inventory, Financial Planning, Store Operations, Field Merchandising and Category Planogram Designers to achieve the Merchandising objectives as it relates to the category strategic plans. In this role you will be responsible for searching out new, competitive opportunities at CVS within your assigned categories and driving the business to ensure an industry leading position for CVS.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
Minimum: 60,300
Maximum: 130,000
Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.
Required Qualifications
3 years of experience developing and executing plans, review data, consumer insights and identify business opportunities to deliver expected financial and share results.
3 years of experience collaborating with cross functional team members, internally and with suppliers.
3 years of experience supporting category strategies to deliver on both short-term and long term goals and adapts change based on consumer/market dynamics.
Must be willing to travel at least 5-10%
Ideal candidate must live within reasonable commute to RI
Preferred Qualifications
Technical experience should include MS Office, Word, Excel PowerPoint, knowledge of (Nielsen/IRI) market data, Access or other data base knowledge and planogram tools
Education
Bachelor's degree
Business Overview
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. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.