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.Position SummaryThe 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 outcomes
Plans and manages the use of expenses and capital
Identifies new areas of opportunity to invest
Leads our change to centralize investment decisions
Builds and evaluates business cases to select key projects and investments that align to our strategy
Establishing 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 trends
Drives efficiency and effective planning processes by implementing and upholding a project management discipline across boundaries
Assigns 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 model
Creates checks and balances to maintain processes and ensure outcomes including meeting expense and capital budgets
Processes 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 appropriate
Fully embraces organizational improvement initiatives, acting as a change agent with one’s own team and peers and partners
Looks 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 performance
Creates 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 models
8+ 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 authority
8+ 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 skills
8+ years’ experience in merchandising environment, or in other like external business models
Expertise leveraging MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities
Travel - Ability, and willingness, to travel regularly, 10-25% of time, based on needs of the business
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years’ experience in the above
5+ years’ experience demonstrating ability to lead a large team & manage million-dollar business unit to achieve financial/business results
5+ years’ experience collaborating effectively across different business functions, perspectives, and styles of leadership
Business development and/or Consulting experience
Advanced degree
EducationBachelor’s degree, or equivalent experiencePay RangeThe typical pay range for this role is:$82,940.00 - $182,549.40This 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 (https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits)We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/30/2024Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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.