Ecommerce Trading Assistant Manager - Healthcare

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare retailer in the UK is seeking an E-commerce Trading Assistant Manager to oversee day-to-day trading of the Health & Wellness category. The role requires strong commercial experience, expertise in digital trading, and excellent stakeholder management skills. The successful candidate will drive performance through data analysis and innovative marketing strategies. Flexibility in working hours is essential as this position involves early mornings and occasional weekend shifts.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

24/7 counselling support

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial role, ideally in eCommerce or retail trading.
• Ability to use data and insights to drive performance.
• Excellent internal and external management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage eCommerce trading of categories on Boots.com.
• Understand market drivers to drive conversion and growth.
• Deliver new product launches and digital plans.

Skills

Commercial role experience

Data-driven performance improvement

Stakeholder management

E-commerce knowledge

Healthcare passion

Tools

Google Analytics

PowerBI

ContentSquare

SimilarWeb

Job description

Role

Position: E-commerce Trading Assistant Manager - Healthcare

Contract: Permanent

Shift pattern: Full Time

Location: Nottingham Support Office

Closing date: 2nd Jan 2026

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

About the role

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 the best Boots products, prices and offers, we are 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 eCommerce Trading Lead you will be part of the wider Healthcare eCommerce trading team, responsible for the day‑to‑day trade of selected sub‑categories within our exciting, innovative Health & Wellness category and how our incredible range and brands show up on boots.com, to achieve stretching commercial growth targets.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the day‑to‑day trading and how your categories show up across Boots.com, contributing to total Boots.com revenue & profit growth and market share goals
• Be seen as the digital expert in your categories, holding a clear understanding of the drivers for each category as well as the wider Healthcare & Wellness market, with insight into how to drive conversion, grow orders and increase customer acquisition
• Delivery of new product launches, sales plan, online trade overlays and owning the digital plan for your brands and categories
• Manage multiple partners to ensure the category is appropriately supported to maximise performance
• Support digital 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

What you'll need to have

• Experience working in a commercial role, ideally within eCommerce or with a strong retail trading/buying background
• Understanding of digital trading levers and performance marketing – confident in using data and insight to drive performance, and in building & delivering profitable plans. Experience using analytics tools (GA, PowerBI, ContentSquare, SimilarWeb) is desirable
• Ability to demonstrate real initiative and be willing to push boundaries, taking calculated risks to gain a competitive advantage
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management – confident engaging, influencing and holding to account team, peers, senior stakeholders and third parties (including product suppliers)
• Experience of, or a passion for, Healthcare would be advantageous although not essential

IMPORTANT NOTE: This role requires regular working outside normal office hours. This typically involves working from 5am one or two times a month, occasional weekend working particularly at peak times 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.

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

If Successful, one of our talent team will be in touch to discuss the next step and go through the process with you.

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.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre‑employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.