CVS Team Lead

Role Description

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a CVS Team Lead, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the Job:

• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice — embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that’s ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leverage the Opella North America CHC strategy to develop Opella’s business portfolio with CVS, including delivering budgeted sales revenue, innovation sales, category share, profitability, and supply chain goals.
• Own the establishment and execution of our overall vision and strategy to win with CVS, collaborating to secure input, investment, and support from internal cross-functional partners.
• Build and foster relationships with Senior-level leadership at CVS, including merchandising, marketing, supply chain, and store operations.
• Manage and own the CVS Team P&L, including trade investment and overall Operational Execution considerations.
• Ensure robust category-level Joint Business Plans with corresponding scorecards that represent mutually defined annual goals.
• Lead the hiring, training, and development of top talent for Opella, creating a highly collaborative and effective culture.
• Manage a high-functioning team and agency partners to serve the needs of CVS and Opella at an optimal and mutually defined ROI.
• Define and lead the necessary business questions and support from data analytics and shopper/consumer insights.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of proven delivery in CPG, preferably within OTC/Healthcare and Personal Care.
• Excellent business acumen; proficient category, segment, and RX to OTC switching knowledge.
• Prefer someone with CVS experience.
• Extensive macro U.S. trade channel experience to include shopper journeys, eComm, syndicated and shopper data.
• Proficient in all functional areas to include CPFR/demand planning and business analysis.
• Thrive and adapt quickly in fast-paced, evolving environments with shifting priorities.
• Bring clarity to ambiguity by learning new approaches and aligning stakeholders to drive results.
• Lead by example with a hands-on, problem-solving mindset, actively contributing to execution.
• Inspire and motivate teams to navigate complex challenges and achieve successful outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong collaboration, organization, and communication to deliver effective retail execution.

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is: $185,000.00 - $250,000.00.
• All Compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

Company Description

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

• At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites, and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
• Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale, and Mucosolvan.
• As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.