Merchandising Manager, IQP – CVS Health

5% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 13% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding

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Job Description
As the Merchandising Manager IQP you will prepare RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, and evaluate supplier proposals (including cost analysis and sample review). Engage cross-functionally across the organization to drive results and resolve issues encountered by the team including the ability to assess and course-correct as necessary.

Responsibilities will include:
– Independently design and conduct complex analyses (e.g. addressing multiple, interconnected issues or elements) using many different types of information (customer, competitor, economics, etc.)
– Distill insights into potential sourcing, merchandising and category opportunities
– Articulate conclusions and recommendations to the leadership team and category management
– Prepare material and presentations in a way that can be easily understood by others who may not have the same background or expertise
– Partner with other groups on analysis including finance, inventory, legal, joint venture partners, and manufacture partners (e.g., major CPGs) involved in the sourcing process
– Establish savings tracking methodology and report realized savings on a continuous base. Ensure realized savings ties back to projected budget / goal.
– Willingness to travel 5% – 10%

Required Qualifications
3-5 year’s minimum relevant experience in a retail / reseller organization; or in an analytical, sourcing, merchandising, or buying position

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications
– Excel, Access and Tableau knowledge
– 1 year or more of consulting or related analytical experience a plus
– Ability to construct complex models to analyze information (primarily in Excel)
– Superior analytical skills, quantitative skills and problem solving skills including competency with statistics
– Experience working with large data sets
– -Past experience working with OTC healthcare products
– Ability to explain analysis through PowerPoint (e.g., tell the story)
– Keen ability to distill complex ideas into simpler frameworks and illustrations
– High level of independent judgment and initiative required
– Highest level of attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, adjusting to priorities as needed and meeting deadlines

Education
Bachelors Degree required

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.

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