Contract: 12 Mths Secondment
Location: Nottingham
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
What you'll be doing
We have an exciting opportunity to join our self-selection cosmetics category team as a Category Manager. This team is responsible for managing brands like L'Oreal, Coty, ELF, Revolution along with many smaller indie brands like SheGlam. Over the last year we have launched 8 new brands into the category and driven market share growth!
You would be joining a high performing team, but one that likes to stop and celebrate our successes and have fun along the way. Reporting into Head of Category SSC, you will:
Key responsibilities
1. Manage some of our biggest brands; Coty (MaxFactor, Rimmel), ELF, Revolution, 17, as well as some of our newer more indie brands like SheGlam, Milani, Essence and Catrice.
2. We have an opportunity to shape the role around the development needs of the successful candidate, but this role currently supports the ACMs through managing our month end process, supports on marketing with GTM and Salesplan set up.
3. Being a true beauty junkie is a plus, as delivering best in class NPD, new brand launches, with a keen eye for detail as the role will be responsible for landing new brands and NPD on a regular basis
4. This role involves building and landing market leading annual growth strategies and plans in collaboration with multiple JBP suppliers and also championing smaller more disruptive brands.
What you'll need to have (our must-haves)
5. The ideal candidate for this role would thrive in a fast-paced environment and have the right balance of strategic thinking, agility and ambition. This role requires fantastic cross-functional working, relationship building and prioritisation, to enable the team to maximise all opportunities, as well as supporting in the management of JBPs, and building a support network from internal cross functional teams.
6. The Ideal candidate will be organised, self-driven, operationally excellent and able to effectively manage stakeholders at all levels.
Rewards designed for you
7. Boots Retirement Savings Plan
8. Discretionary annual bonus
9. Generous employee discounts
10. Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
11. Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
12. 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.
We hope to hear from you soon.
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