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Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Transformation & Planning is a key member in transforming our Retail organization. In this role, you will manage the expenses, capital, and financial outcomes of the retail organization. In addition, you will be key as we centralize and create efficiencies in a 300+ person organization. As the Senior Manager, Transformation & Planning you will own the strategy and implementation of our transformation efforts. You will leverage yours strong ability to influence without authority to build streamlined narratives that support and influence decision-makers while being outstanding at managing the transformation from A to Z.

To be successful, you will need to leverage active listening to clearly understand pain points, or points within the Merchandising organization where there is significant variability, to innovative and centralize processes that benefit the majority. You will need to have an idea of how to create a change story to help navigate the complexity of change management as you lead the broader team through implementation and on to execution. In this role, building a strong network of fast, trusted, and credible relationships within Merchandising, Finance, Digital, Analytics, Marketing and Supply Chain will be the unlock for creating measurable change that impacts both our colleagues and our consumers in a favorable way. 

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

Models multi-year financial outcomesPlans and manages the use of expenses and capitalIdentifies new areas of opportunity to investLeads our change to centralize investment decisionsBuilds and evaluates business cases to select key projects and investments that align to our strategyEstablishing a clear, prioritized activity roadmap that successfully delivers the company’s ambitions, including changes in products, policies and/or processes across our ecosystem with appropriate collaboration across multiple stakeholders.Proficiency working with data to develop measure and metrics that yield actionable insights to business owners, & lead/conduct/ support first-level analyses to identify underlying drivers of trendsDrives efficiency and effective planning processes by implementing and upholding a project management discipline across boundariesAssigns appropriate timelines and accountabilities for items, empowering the team to drive action steps to completion.Influences at all levels – up to and including cross-functional SVPs. Champions innovation by bringing ideas to own VP & SVP as well as broader Merchandising Leadership in an agile way, while balancing growth with financial risk & incremental cost to organization

Evolution and Maintenance of Processes/Procedures

Building new processes to innovate our working modelCreates checks and balances to maintain processes and ensure outcomes including meeting expense and capital budgetsProcesses ad hoc as the needs of the business change

Stakeholder Influence and Change Management

Leverages data, insights, and analytics to influence stakeholders and makes recommendations as appropriateFully embraces organizational improvement initiatives, acting as a change agent with one’s own team and peers and partnersLooks for ways to break through implementation barriers rather than be impeded by them.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitating collaboration between different departments to promote a cohesive and integrated approach to achieving organizational goals.Leverages a results-oriented mindset, using metrics to monitor improvements

Culture Talent Development

Leadership: Providing guidance, direction, & support to teams and departments to ensure smooth operations & optimal performanceCreates a culture centered on inclusion and well-being will be a key responsibility in this role. Caring for our colleagues is a top priority, which translates to caring for our customers.Promotes a high-performance culture by clearly setting goals and expectations

Required Qualifications

8+ years’ experience in Finance, Planning or building financial models8+ years of demonstrated successful leadership experience in a highly competitive environment. Relevant sectors include retail, finance, consulting, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.8+ years’ track record influencing others with & without authority8+ years’ experience understanding and breaking down highly complex situations to deliver impactful solutions in real time.8+ years’ experience effectively demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills; very strong interpersonal and presentation skills8+ years’ experience in merchandising environment, or in other like external business modelsExpertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilitiesTravel - Ability, and willingness, to travel regularly, 10-25% of time, based on needs of the business

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years’ experience in the above5+ years’ experience demonstrating ability to lead a large team & manage million-dollar business unit to achieve financial/business results5+ years’ experience collaborating effectively across different business functions, perspectives, and styles of leadershipBusiness development and/or Consulting experienceAdvanced degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$82,940.00 - $182,549.40

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. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/30/2024

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.