Assistant Category Manager - Electrical Beauty

The Boots Company PLC; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and beauty retailer is seeking an experienced individual to join their Brand Buying team in Nottingham. This role involves developing and sourcing products, negotiating with suppliers, and analyzing market data to enhance the shopping experience for customers. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in sourcing or buying from an FMCG context. The position offers the chance to be part of significant projects with prominent brands and the opportunity for personal career growth.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to free counseling and support through TELUS Health

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in sourcing or buying, and supplier management.
• Strong negotiation skills in an FMCG environment or similar.
• Ability to work as part of a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and sourcing products for store shelves.
• Make data-driven recommendations based on customer preferences.
• Negotiate with vendors to secure favorable pricing and terms.

Skills

Sourcing

Supplier management

Negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Job description

Contract: 12 Mths Secondment, may go Perm

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

The importance of your role. This is your chance to be part of something a bit different. Joining our Brand Buying team, you'll help drive the success of our brands and our business. We have big plans to become even bigger and better, building on our health & beauty brand successes of No.7, Soltan, Botanics, Soap and Glory, and Boots Pharmaceuticals. There’s a real opportunity to grow your career with us. It’s about offering wonderful products so our customers feel good and keep coming back. We’re passionate about offering fantastic quality at the best value prices in store. Together these elements will help make us No 1 for Customer Care. What you’ll be doing day to day.

Reporting into the Category Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of our development, sourcing and delivering consumer brands including our own wonderful brands. You’ll help decide what products reach our in‑store shelves, get to know our customer favourites, analyse data and provide sourcing recommendations to support our global consumer and retail brand strategies. Your commercial awareness in this fast‑paced, ever‑changing market will serve you well as you’ll be part of big projects with high‑profile brands. You’ll inspire the Brand Buying team, always putting our customers at the heart of everything you do, looking for new opportunities and identifying what we could be missing out on to set Boots apart from other retailers.

How will you do it?

You’ll love our brands and be an ambassador for them, as we work towards becoming the world’s best pharmacy‑led health and beauty retailer. Building great relationships with our vendors and suppliers, you’ll help our customers get the best products at a great price. Showing off your negotiation skills, you’ll help reduce our costs and seek out a global source for raw materials at the best possible price. With your eye for detail you’ll find great opportunities for our brands, working closely with the Brand Buying team, focusing on our financial targets and monitoring our progress. There’s also a range of fantastic benefits and training for you, not to mention great in‑store discounts.

What you’ll need to have

We’re looking for really great people, with a friendly personality. It’s all about working together as one great team – after all, it’s our people that are at the heart of our business. It could open up even more opportunities with us. You’ll have lots of experience in either sourcing or buying, supplier management or negotiation skills from an FMCG or other business. We’re interested in seeing more than just experience – we want to see the real you. And sometimes you’ll need to travel within the UK or internationally.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you – find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third‑party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, we change for the better.

What’s next

Where a role is advertised as full‑time, we are open to discussing part‑time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.