Assistant Digital Project Manager - Business Transition

BOOTS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and beauty retailer in the United Kingdom seeks an Assistant Digital Project Manager to support significant digital transformation efforts. This role involves managing the business readiness plan across various teams, ensuring effective delivery and addressing potential issues. Candidates should have experience in project management and excellent communication skills. The position is full-time with a contract duration of 12 months, office-based in Nottingham, offering a wide range of benefits.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

24/7 counselling and support services

Qualifications

• Experience in project and/or programme management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains the detailed business readiness plan.
• Owns day-to-day management of actions and deliverables.
• Tracks follow-ups from previous meetings and ensures actions are closed.

Skills

Organizational skills

Effective communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management experience

Adaptability

Education

Project Management qualifications (e.g., MSP, Prince 2)

Tools

PowerPoint

MS Teams

Sharepoint

Excel

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Role: Assistant Digital Project Manager - Business Transition (Project Condor)

Contract: 12 month FTC

Shift pattern: Weekdays

Pattern: Full Time

Hours: 37.5

Location: Nottingham

Closing date: 5th Feb 2026

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

About the role

Boots is embarking on a huge Digital Transformation, one which will overhaul our digital capabilities, upgrading tools, systems and processes to better serve customers and colleagues. This role supports the Digital Project Manager, who owns the overall business delivery plan, ensuring readiness for go live.

This role is critical to ensuring the Digital Transformation programme lands successfully for both our business teams and our customers. This role will support the Digital Project manager by driving day-to-day delivery, tracking and coordinating business readiness activities for the tribe and ensuring plans are executed and issues surfaced early.

You will work closely with specialists in Business Change, Business Architecture, Product and our business SMEs to ensure all activities are identified and organised into the business delivery plan for both the boots.com and boots.ie go live. You will ensure these plans are delivered, identifying and addressing risks and issues as needed.

The role reports to the Digital Project Manager. The role has no direct reports.

Core responsibilities include

• Builds and maintains the detailed business readiness plan for the tribe.
• Owns day-to-day management of actions, dependencies, milestones and deliverables.
• Maintains the RAID and decision log, ensuring accuracy and timely updates, flagging emerging risks, slippage or resourcing issues early to the Manager.
• Organises and supports weekly tribe meetings (agenda creation, materials, minutes, actions).
• Tracks follow-ups from previous meetings and ensures actions are closed.
• Prepares content for hot topics, risks or decisions needing escalation.
• Works with SMEs to gather inputs on processes, ways of working, training, UAT, cutover and support.
• Tracks readiness inputs across change, business architecture, training, comms, implementation, testing and tech partners.
• Produces weekly tribe-level status updates which will be fed into Release Weekly, and supports the senior report for Programme Board.
• Supports RAG assessments with evidence and data.
• Acts as the day-to-day point of contact for tribe stakeholders.
• Coordinates across Product, Architecture, Change, Business SMEs and delivery teams to keep momentum.
• Supports the Manager in preparing materials for senior forums and escalations.

What you'll need to have

• You are extremely organised and have some experience in project and/or programme management
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities, and challenging stakeholders
• Confident, flexible and unflappable and will challenge when deadlines are not met or standards not achieved
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and good attention to detail
• Great at bringing a cross-functional group together, and leading/facilitating the group to work through potential problems or barriers
• Works well with others and experienced in working cross-functionality with a diverse range of people
• Some experience of project and programme management methodologies
• Confident user of PowerPoint, MS Teams, Sharepoint and Excel

It would be great if you also have

• Any external Project Management qualifications / training. E.g. MSP Practitioner, Prince 2, etc
• Experience using JIRA / Confluence

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 holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and 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. 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, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next

If you are successful in being selected for interview, one of our Talent Team will contact you to go through the process and tell you more about the role.

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.