Assistant Category Manager Men’s Hair \u0026amp; Hygiene

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

Job summary

A leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer in the UK seeks a candidate for a Brand Buying role. This position involves driving brand success through effective sourcing and negotiation strategies. You'll analyze data and build strong vendor relationships to ensure the best product pricing. The ideal candidate should have experience in sourcing or buying within an FMCG environment, with strong negotiation and analytical skills. The company offers various benefits, including generous employee discounts and flexible working 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 from an FMCG or similar environment.
• Ability to negotiate and build relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Strong analytical skills to provide sourcing recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the success of brands and the business as part of the Brand Buying team.
• Analyze customer data and provide sourcing recommendations.
• Build relationships with vendors to reduce costs and find materials.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Supplier management

Negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Job description

Job Overview

Contract: Permanent
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. 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, 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 you’ll 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 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.

Rewards designed for you

• 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.

About us

At Boots, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we’re committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

Next steps

Our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full‑time, we are open to discussing part‑time and job share options. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you 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.

We hope to hear from you soon

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