Assistant E-Commerce Manager – Premium Beauty

Boots UK; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Boots Pension Scheme

Staff discount (Boots)

Job summary

Boots UK is seeking an Assistant E-Commerce Manager for Premium Beauty based in Nottingham. The role leads day-to-day trading, launches, and online trade planning to grow category revenue and market share.

You will act as the digital expert for Premium Beauty, using data to improve conversion and customer acquisition, while coordinating internal teams and external partners to deliver bold plans and safe, compliant online trading.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day trading of the Premium Beauty category on Boots.com to drive revenue, profit and market share growth.
• Act as the digital expert for the category, using data and insight to improve conversion and customer acquisition.
• Deliver launches, sales plans and online trade plans for brands and categories.
• Coordinate multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure category support.
• Support development initiatives and process improvements in ecommerce trading and customer requirements.
• Ensure legal and safe trade of own categories online and delivery of KPIs.

Job description

Role: Assistant E-Commerce Manager – Premium Beauty

Contract: 12M FTC

Shift Pattern: Full Time

Location: Nottingham

Recruiter: Matt Nelligan

Boots Digital is an exciting team within Boots UK that is at the heart of our growth plans as more customers look to us for online help, advice, and shopping inspiration. As well as, of course, the best Boots products, prices and offers. As customers are changing, so are we: focusing on really understanding our customers’ needs and making the most of our great products and services to optimise the online shopping experience and drive growth.

As an Assistant E-Commerce Manager for the Premium Beauty category, you will be part of the wider Beauty eCommerce trading team, responsible for day-to-day trade of our exciting, fast-paced category and how our incredible brands show up on boots.com, to achieve stretching growth targets.

About The Opportunity

• Responsible for the day-to-day trading and how the Premium Beauty category shows up across Boots.com, contributing to total Boots.com revenue & profit growth and market share ambitions
• Be seen as the digital expert in your category, holding a clear understanding of the drivers for the category and the Premium Beauty market, with insight about how to drive conversion and increase customer acquisition
• Delivery of new product launches, salesplan, online trade plan and owning the digital plan for your brands and category.
• Managing multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure the category is appropriately supported
• Supporting development initiatives and process improvements, ensuring that ecommerce trading and customer requirements are captured.
• Responsible for legal and safe trade of own categories online and delivery of KPIs

About You

• Experience of working in a commercial role, either within eCommerce or with strong retail trading/buying experience.
• An understanding of online trading levers and performance marketing – confident in using data & insight to drive performance and in building and delivering plans.
• Able to use initiative and be willing to push boundaries and take calculated risks to gain a competitive advantage.
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management – confident engaging, influencing and holding to account teams, peers, senior stakeholders and third parties (e.g., product suppliers).
• Adaptable and able to maintain excellent prioritisation and organisation skills within a fast-paced environment.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This role requires regular working outside normal offices hours. This typically involves working from 5am one or two times a month and occasional overnight working e.g., for major launches. In general, you will be expected to be flexible with your working hours to meet business and customer needs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
• Boots Pension Scheme
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Generous staff discount (Boots, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearing Care)
• £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
• Access to corporate discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays etc (UK only)
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes, holiday buying and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only)
• Onsite staff shop, opticians, gym, coffee shops, cafeteria, dry cleaning service and excellent travel links
• All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.

Why Boots

Our mission is to help everyone to feel good. This starts internally – with every colleague and every team. In our stores and pharmacies, our warehouses and our Support Office, we work together, putting our customers first and our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people, with a huge range of opportunities for you to continue to grow with us… just bring your passion and commitment and we’ll do the rest.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. 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.

We offer a variety of flexible working patterns to support our colleagues to achieve a good work life balance, just speak to our Recruitment team to find out more.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Matt Nelligan