Position SummaryAre you passionate about building customer focused assortments, driving innovation, and leading high-impact retail strategies that shape how customers shop every day?
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to shape the future of the Household & Laundry business at CVS Health. As Lead Director, Senior Category Manager, you will lead a highly visible everyday needs portfolio with responsibility for driving sales, margin growth, customer engagement, vendor strategy, and omnichannel merchandising experiences across stores and digital channels.
In this role, you will set the strategic direction for the category, translate customer and market insights into actionable business plans, and partner cross-functionally to deliver growth, innovation, and differentiated experiences for CVS Health customers. You will also lead and develop a team of Category Merchants and Analysts, building talent, accountability, and a strong culture of performance.
Additional Responsibilities will include:
- Deliver sales and margin goals by attaining market share and thoughtfully managing all lines of the category P&L
- Lead and manage large vendor relationships, including joint business planning development and vendor negotiations to secure innovation, funding, service levels, differentiated assortments and profitable growth.
- Develop and implement category plans (i.e., plan optimal SKU mix; ExtraCare loyalty program; weekly, seasonal, annual promotional programs) for merchandising programs that reflect deep personal knowledge of our businesses, customers and client.
- Initiate and execute strategic promotional strategies and marketing plans by collaborating internally with CVS partners (e.g., Inventory, Pricing, Promotion, Finance, Store Brands, Store Design and Store Operations) and supplier partners.
- Build, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear goals, accountability, and a strong pipeline of future merchandising talent.
- Influence and align cross-functional partners across merchandising, marketing, digital, finance, supply chain, store operations, and loyalty to execute category priorities.
- Leverage customer, loyalty, market, and competitive insights to identify growth opportunities and inform assortment, pricing, promotion, and merchandising decisions.
- Develop and continually sustain a strong understanding of current competition as well as search out new competitive and customer opportunities.
- Contribute to the development and execution of General Merchandising initiatives.
Required Qualifications- 10+ years category management and/or direct spend experience, with a track record of meeting, or exceeding, financial objectives and P&L ownership.
- Demonstrated ability to translate customer, market, and competitive insights into actionable category strategies.
- Proven track record of influencing others with and without authority
- Experience building high-performing, successful teams developing key talent.
- Experience leading under pressure, adapting quickly to changing dynamics, and developing solutions that meet the needs of multiple business stakeholders.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced retail environment.
- Previous experience developing presentations with strong executive presence, communicating complex business strategies clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional partners
- Experience leveraging a strategic mindset with the ability to develop and execute category and merchandising strategies that drive business growth.
- Experience leading category transformation, assortment optimization, SKU productivity, or promotional effectiveness initiatives.
- Experience managing large-scale vendor portfolios and national brand partnerships
- Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities.
- Travel- Ability, and willingness to travel regularly, 20% of time, based on needs of the business
Preferred Qualifications- Experience building high-performing, successful teams developing key talent. Demonstrated passion for bringing new leaders along and helping them realize their ability to impact the business.
- Experience leveraging a strategic mindset with the ability to develop and execute category and merchandising strategies that drive business growth.
- Experience managing large-scale vendor portfolios and national brand partnerships
EducationBachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Pay RangeThe typical pay range for this role is:
$100,000.00 - $231,540.00
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.
Great benefits for great peopleWe take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/12/2026
