Assistant Product Development Manager

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

If you're energized by the idea of building products from the ground up and seeing your work come to life on shelves, this is where your passion meets purpose. As an Assistant Product Development Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the growth of our Store Brands portfolio by executing product development initiatives that align with strategic business goals.

This role is focused on operational excellence across the product lifecycle, ensuring timely and accurate execution of new product launches that meet customer needs and drive category performance. You will report directly to a Product Development Manager and collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams and external partners.

• Tactical Project Execution - 60% Support the Product Development Manager in every aspect of the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) lifecycle - from concept, launch, improvements, and potentially sun setting - acting as a key point of contact between vendors and internal teams (e.g., packaging, regulatory, sourcing, and marketing).
• Manage item setup & maintenance processes including vendor onboarding, UPC generation, factory updates, specification updates and data accuracy across systems.
• Maintain and organize key product documentation including planograms information, samples, ingredient specifications, pricing, and launch timelines with minimal support.
• Assist in market research and competitive analysis to inform product positioning and innovation opportunities.
• Strategy Planning - 40% Assist the Product Development Manager in their development and alignment of category strategy + product roadmap (with support including: analyses, competitive retail & product assessments, attending tradeshow/conferences & vendor meetings, etc…)
• Facilitate & assist in the preparation of leadership level materials with key cross functional partners for critical milestone meetings such as:
  Planogram Review, Product Pipeline Review & New Item Presentation Meetings, Category Planogram Strategy Kickoffs, Various executive level business reviews.
• Develop & refine critical strategy building skillsets as you learn how to launch Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) in a fast paced retail environment.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

• Required 0-3 years, preferred 3-5 years

• The successful candidate will have a strong work ethic, an entrepreneurial mindset, business savvy, curiosity and the ability to be highly productive in a dynamic, fast paced, collaborative environment.
• The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge / skill / ability:
• Travel requirements – up to 10% travel expected.
• Skill In:
  Attention to detail & critical milestones with little oversight required to ensure information is accurate & on time.
• Leverages a continual improvement mindset to create simplicity and improve the colleague and customer experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust amongst colleagues as demonstrated by successful collaboration to achieve shared goals.
• Strong time management skills, evidenced by experience being accountable to multiple deliverables on staggered deadlines.
• Strong personal integrity and judgment Strong communication skills in both formal and informal writing and speech
• Ability to:
  Deliver executive level quality professional communications, presentations, responses and analyses on a wide range of requests on potentially tight deadlines.
• Communicate clearly to small and large groups internally and externally

• 0-3 years’ of full or part-time work experience in a retail and/or corporate environment
• 0-3 years’ experience achieving…