Contract: FTC/Secondment 12 Months
Location: Nottingham
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
What you'll be doing
We have exciting opportunity to join our Wellness Category team as Category Assistant. Wellness is the fastest growing category in the business, in the last year launching over 70 brands into wellness with more to come as we continue to grow the wellness business further.
Key responsibilities
You'll work side‑by‑side with our Assistant Category Development Manager to bring the hottest, most exciting wellness brands to market. As our Wellness category expands both in store and online, you'll play a key role in this. Reporting into Category Manager, you will:
* Support the ACDM to review Competitor analysis of the market, ranging and pricing
* Setting new suppliers up, Vendor forms and new lines
* Working with other teams such as the marketing and pricing team to ensure set ups are right first time.
* Run sales reports and analyse for the team and suppliers, helping with Monday morning weekly reporting.
* Raise Purchase Orders for marketing and merchandising activity
What you'll need to have (our must-haves)
* Passionate about the wellness space, with curiosity for new brands, trends, and emerging customer needs
* Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
* In-depth understanding of numerous SAP programmes
* Proficient communication whether face-to-face, Teams or email
* Must develop knowledge of category strategy, performance and range
Rewards designed for you
* 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.
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About The Boots Group
The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare, pharmacy and retail, operating across 11 countries - including the UK, Ireland, Thailand and Mexico. The Boots Group brands - including Boots, Boots Opticians, No7 Beauty Company, Farmacias Benavides and Alliance Healthcare - are trusted and well recognised healthcare and beauty businesses, serving millions of customers and patients every day in communities around the world. 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.
What's next
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. 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.
We hope to hear from you soon.
Be brilliant with Boots.
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