Assistant Category Manager - Cough and Cold

The Boots Company PLC; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and beauty retailer in Nottingham is seeking an Assistant Category Manager to drive product success and sourcing strategies. This role involves analyzing consumer data, managing supplier relationships, and aligning with financial targets. You will collaborate within the Brand Buying team to enhance in-store offerings while utilizing your negotiation skills to secure cost-effective sourcing. The ideal candidate should have experience in sourcing or buying, strong commercial awareness, and be a team player passionate about the brand. We offer competitive benefits and growth opportunities.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to 24/7 counselling and support

Qualifications

• Experience in sourcing or buying within FMCG or related industry.
• Excellent negotiation skills to manage supplier relationships.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive the success of products for in-store shelves.
• Analyze data for sourcing recommendations.
• Build relationships with vendors and suppliers.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Buying experience

Supplier management

Negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Job description

Overview

Assistant Category Manager – Boots UK

Contract: 12 Mths Secondment

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, and to build on our health & beauty brand successes of No.7, Soltan, Botanics, Soap and Glory, and Boots Pharmaceuticals. There is a real opportunity to grow your career with us. It’s about offering really wonderful products so our customers feel really good, to keep them coming back. We’re passionate about offering fantastic quality at the best value prices in store. Together these elements will play a big part in making 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. You’ll get to know our customer favourites, analysing data and providing great sourcing recommendations to support our global consumer and retail brand strategies. Your commercial awareness in this fast paced, and ever changing market will serve you well as you’ll be part of big projects with really high profile brands. Inspiring the Brand Buying team, you’ll always put our customers at the heart of everything you do. You’ll look out for new opportunities, and identify 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 really great relationships with our vendors and suppliers, you'll help our customers get the best products at a really 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 fantastic 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 great experience in either sourcing or buying, or supplier management, or negotiations skills from an FMCG or other business. But it isn’t just about experience, we’re interested in seeing a bit more, the real you – and that makes us all feel good. Just to let you know, sometimes you’ll need 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, with you, 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.