Merch Ops – Business Acceleration – Manager
| Company | CVS Health |
|---|---|
| Location | Smithfield, RI, USA |
| Salary | $66330 – $145860 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad, Junior |
Requirements
- 1+ years of analytical and problem-solving skills
- 1+ years of experience using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Education: Four-year college degree; some advanced training in Finance, Economics, Mathematics and/or other quantitative analytical degree a plus
Responsibilities
- Perform analysis to identify sales, cost, and profit opportunities across SKUs and vendors through rigorous analysis and research, including: assessment of SKU/Vendor/Brand/Promotional incrementality, competitive benchmarking (space, brands, SKUs), market insights, customer insights (surveys, Customer analytics), vendor insight (cost structures, motivations), and extensive SKU/brand/vendor-level analysis (relative productivity, profitability, brand loyalty, transferability, etc.)
- Enact a customer-first perspective, understanding when to approach problems through a macro, cross-team lens, necessary to reflect how customers shop at CVS (e.g., trips, basket analyses)
- Based on data analytics, drive the execution of performance improvement projects, including getting stakeholder buy-in from cross-functional teams (e.g. Merchandising, Inventory, Analytics)
- Establish working relationships and gain support across all levels and functions within the enterprise including Category Managers, Divisional Merchandising Managers (Sr. Directors), and Retail Team Merchandising Managers (VPs)
- Develop analytical materials to be shared internally during category reviews and assortment discussions with the Merchandising team
- Provide direct vendor negotiations support to Merchants, including developing ‘Ask’ materials to be shared with vendors
- Enhance and enforce documentation, archiving, and audit processes for agreements with vendors
- Work on special projects, ad hoc analysis, and initiatives related to assortment performance and cost reduction and management
- Use a ‘Test and Learn’ mindset: assist in designing initiative pilots and deploying in select number of stores to measure and assess. Determine how and when to scale successful cases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Merchandising experience – understanding of retail merchandising basics (i.e., category management), and merchandising organizational structures and processes
Benefits
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No information provided on Benefits.