Category Manager - Footcare, First Aid And Health Checks

BOOTS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and beauty retailer is seeking an L5 Category Manager to drive strategic delivery within the Positive Healthcare team, focusing on Footcare and First Aid categories. This role demands strong commercial awareness and the ability to build relationships with suppliers while leading a dedicated team. Join a company that values inclusivity and offers a variety of benefits including employee discounts and retirement plans.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Passionate about developing product ranges within own brand portfolio.
• Deep understanding of customer needs and motivations.
• Ability to translate insights to strategy and trade plans.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic delivery of category plans.
• Build relationships with supplier partners.
• Optimize P&L using available levers.
• Understand customer needs now and in the future.
• Lead a team to drive business growth.

Skills

Building relationships

Strong commercial awareness

Leadership

Proactive mindset

Job description

Contract: 12 Mths FTC

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

From mid-January we will have an exciting L5 vacancy within the Positive Healthcare team looking after Footcare, First Aid and Health Checks categories. This role offers a great mix of both Own Brand and Branded products at a time where there is more innovation coming to the categories than ever before. These categories are high revenue and margin and play a key role in the Consumer Health & Wellness team especially through the summer months

It is exciting times for the category with launches are coming up in Own Brand including the new Wealthy brand and the trending earplug brand Loop, which will play a role within our Wellness offering online and in store. We are relaunching our Blood Pressure monitors range to really compete vs Amazon and we are also working with the wider Healthcare business unit to evolve a podiatry offering in store. There is lots of opportunity to grow the categories through range development and creating great marketing plans with brands along with driving our .com participation

Responsibilities include:

• Be responsible for the strategic delivery of the category plans.
• Building great relationships with our supplier partners to create the best possible plans for customers and secure new brands for the category.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset, to pull all available levers to optimise the P&L.
• Be the expert in our customer - understand what they need now and what they would love in the future.
• Lead a team supporting them to drive the business and helping them to achieve their career goals.

What you'll need to have

We're looking for someone who is passionate about shaping and developing product ranges within our own brand portfolio, exploring new sub categories that can complement and add incremental value and to nurture the core categories too.

• You will demonstrate building great relationships internally and externally, leveraging those relationships to make the most of every opportunity.
• You will have strong commercial awareness with a deep understanding of customer needs and motivations - able to translate insight to strategy to trade plans which capitalise on customer and market opportunities.
• You will be an inspirational leader who creates commitment and belief in others - playing a key role in ensuring suppliers and internal stakeholders are bought in to the vision for the future of the business.
• A proactive, go-getter - doesn't wait to be told what to do, but goes after new opportunities to drive the business harder.

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.