Head of Marketing, Beauty - Boots UK

Boots; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and beauty retailer is seeking a Marketing Lead in Nottingham. This full-time role entails leading marketing strategies and delivering customer-focused communications, driving growth for the brand. The ideal candidate should possess significant marketing campaign experience and demonstrate proficiency in budget management and team leadership. The role includes overseeing cross-functional collaborations and executing innovative marketing programs. Join a company that values inclusivity and offers a range of benefits, including a generous retirement savings plan and employee discounts.

Benefits

Generous employee discounts

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to counseling and support

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and delivering large marketing campaigns.
• Proven ability to support category and seasonal strategy development.
• Leadership experience in cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with integrated communication production.
• Knowledge of managing marketing budgets effectively.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for planning and delivering customer communications.
• Align needs of key stakeholders and support the category vision.
• Guide creative development across all marketing channels.
• Lead live trading periods and analyze market conditions.
• Inspire and lead a team of marketers to success.

Skills

Marketing campaign leadership

Cross-functional team collaboration

Budget management

Market analysis

Customer-centric communication

Job description

Job Description

Closing Date: Monday 5th January
Location: Nottingham, Full-time
Contract: 12 month contract (maternity cover)
Recruitment Partner: Frankie McCallister-Lyas

Overview

Welcome to the Boots Marketing Team! Are you ready to be at the forefront of market-leading campaigns and exciting new ideas, leading a team that puts customers at the heart of every decision?

This role is core to our strategy, aimed at developing and delivering customer-focused communications consistent with the Boots brand purpose, that drive growth and brand health.

This is a leadership role for someone ready to build, grow and deliver real change. As a key member of the Business Unit leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering the Marketing plan for your area, in support of the Beauty strategy. On top of this, the role also plays a key leadership position in the Marketing function, driving best practice and new ideas across the total function.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be accountable for the planning and delivery of all communications to customers to support the relevant category. Including the delivery of fully integrated marketing communication plans
• In planning and delivering a communication plan, you will need to ensure the needs of all key stakeholders are aligned and met, which aligning to the category vision, leading cross functional teams across Business Units, Loyalty, In-store, Digital, Social PR and Content.
• You will guide and oversee creative development across all channels, ensuring you align to the commercial requirements as well as brand purpose
• Owning and leading the customer proposition experience from strategic development to execution is critical, but you will also be able to translate this, with our squad team and key stakeholders, into a communication / campaign calendar
• Lead live trading periods, responding to marketing conditions to maximise results and KPI performance
• To stay ahead of the market, you will need to be aware of our competitors and the industry, so market analysis is critical
• While internal partners are critical to success, you will also be working with external agency partners to deliver results
• You will work closely with suppliers to develop innovative marketing ideas which excite customers and grow the market
• Lead the thinking on customer marketing plan, delivered against our customer strategy and brand ambition
• To do all the above, you will be leading a team of talented marketers, so inspiring and leading is critical to the success of this role

What you’ll need to have

• Relevant Marketing experience on developing, leading and delivering in large campaigns
• Ability to demonstrate supporting the development of relevant category/seasonal strategies providing customer, market and marketing insights.
• Experience of working with, and ideally leading, cross functional team to design and deliver compelling marketing campaigns and communications
• Experience of development and production of integrated communications working hand in hand with media and loyalty teams
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of budget management up to significant spend level.
• Examples of team and agency leadership, inspiring people to deliver best in class marketing through improving their knowledge skill and behaviours

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.

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)

What's next

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion, you'll be notified by email.

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.