PB CAREERS – CVS, Senior Product Innovation Manager

PB CAREERS – CVS, Senior Product Innovation Manager

Job Title: Senior Product Innovation Manager
Job ID: 1163247BR
Location: RI – Woonsocket
Street Address: 1 CVS Drive
Category: Product Management | Merchandising | Category Manager | Product Innovation

Job Description
The Senior Product Innovation Manager will be responsible for developing an actionable multiyear innovation roadmap and ensuring all new innovative products are launched on time and with high quality in order to support and provide sales and margin growth to CVS’ Private Brands business.

In this role, you will lead all aspects of product innovation, from ideation to commercialization, including launch activation planning and delivery. You will collaborate with product development, merchandising, marketing, strategy and other cross-functional partners. In addition to driving innovation, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Category Managers on business planning and setting an innovative vision for differentiation and positioning of Our Brands by category.

The successful candidate must be innovative, analytical and creative with a keen awareness of product and category trends. This highly visible position requires a solid understanding of product development fundamentals with expertise in innovation delivery, stakeholder management and the ability to apply strategic thinking throughout ideation and conceptualization.

Innovation Strategy & Business Case Development:

• Identify white space that aligns with our core purpose by assessing emerging trends, key business drivers, competitive activity and consumer need gaps to deliver breakthrough, disruptive new product propositions
• Develop financial business case, product level concepts, breakthrough claims, pricing, go to market strategy, etc.
• Manage all consumer testing at the concept development stage in partnership with Consumer Insights and Brand Marketing team
• Create all necessary documents for cross-functional alignment and Leadership Team approval (i.e. Project Charter’s, Scoping, and Product Briefs, etc.)
• Support the Senior Director in the creation and oversight of a diversified innovation portfolio

Product/Program Development:

• Develop and lead all aspects of the innovation process in partnership with the cross-functional product development team
• Develop product line financials and associated budgets consistent with product/category/program objectives
• Partner with QA/ Regulatory to ensure compliance for an innovation project

Commercialization/Activation:

• Lead the development and execution of activation launch plans across all elements of the marketing mix.
• Contribute to communications development, including claims, brand storytelling, creative/asset development, social/digital activation plans & in store marketing
• Collaborate with Brand marketing and Merchandising teams to win in-store & online

Drive Sales & Margin Growth

• Partners across boundaries to analyze existing categories of business and identifies strategic opportunities and creates business plans to drive growth
• Influences to gain leadership alignment and ensure execution
• Leads the yearly budgeting process for Our Brands in partnership with both the Category Managers and the Product Development managers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8+ years retail, product innovation or consulting experience with a strong understanding of the Retail/Consumer products industry, merchandising principles and customer experience
• 8+ years’ experience utilizing business analytics (IRI data analysis, ROI, P&L, financial scenario planning, etc.) to build strong business cases
• 8+ years’ experience managing multiple large-scale projects
• 5+ years’ experience deriving insights by leveraging customer research, empirical data, and analytics and to develop structured hypotheses

Preferred Qualifications

• Management Consulting, Consumer Product Goods or Product Innovation experience a strong plus but not mandatory
• Strong influencing skills both oral and written, underpinned by sound analytical capability
• The successful candidate has strong project management skills and must be able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, own deliverables end to end, prioritize workload effectively, and thrive in a dynamic environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; Masters Preferred

Business Overview
It’s a new day in health care.
Combining CVS Health and Aetna was a transformative moment for our company and our industry, establishing CVS Health as the nation’s premier health innovation company. Through our health services, insurance plans and community pharmacists, we’re pioneering a bold new approach to total health. As a CVS Health colleague, you’ll be at the center of it all.

We offer a diverse work experience that empowers colleagues for career success. In addition to skill and experience, we also seek to attract and retain colleagues whose beliefs and behaviors are in alignment with our core values of collaboration, innovation, caring, integrity and accountability.

CVS Health is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Gender/Ethnicity/Disability/Protected Veteran – we highly value and are committed to all forms of diversity in the workplace. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the following EEO is the Law Poster: EEO IS THE LAW and EEO IS THE LAW SUPPLEMENT. We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance to apply for this job, please contact our Advice and Counsel Reasonable Accommodations team. Please note that we only accept applications for employment via this site.

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