Assistant Category Manager - Electrical Beauty

BOOTS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health and beauty retailer is seeking a talented professional for a Brand Buying position in Nottingham. This role involves sourcing consumer brands, analyzing market data, and building relationships with suppliers. Ideal candidates will have experience in procurement or supplier management, strong negotiation skills, and a passion for health and beauty products. This position offers opportunities for career growth, a variety of benefits, and flexibility regarding part-time options.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to 24/7 counselling and support

Qualifications

• Experience in sourcing or buying, preferably in FMCG.
• Strong negotiation skills to achieve cost reductions.
• Ability to analyze data and customer preferences.

Responsibilities

• Source and deliver consumer brands for in-store shelves.
• Provide data-driven recommendations for brand strategies.
• Build relationships with vendors and suppliers.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Teamwork

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 – and we think that’s a really great opportunity. We’ve big plans to become even bigger and better, and build 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 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, analyse data and provide great 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 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’s a fantastic opportunity to add to your own development, and a chance to learn more about us as a 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 negotiation 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.