Job Description
Assistant Operations Manager
Contract: Permanent
Shift pattern: - Rotating Shift
Location - Basingstoke - Boots Regional Dispensing Hub
Recruitment Partner: Vyoma Gandhi
What you'll be doing
This role is based on-site at the Boots Regional Dispensing Hub located above the Boots Distribution centre on Rutherford Road, Basingstoke. The site is open Monday to Saturday from 06:00-22:00.
The Boots Regional Dispensing Hub (RDH) is an advanced, semi-automated pharmacy opening September 2025 in Basingstoke. The hub is a pharmacy and logistics hybrid operation, utilising technology and automation to centrally fill repeat prescription scripts and dispatch to our stores within 24 hours of receiving the prescription.
The Basingstoke Dispensing Hub will support our stores across the region, helping our healthcare teams spend more time with their patients and offer a greater range of services to their local community.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Shift Manager within our Regional Dispensing Hub.
Key responsibilities
You will lead and motivate a team of both warehouse and dispensing Operatives based in our Basingstoke facility with a focus on maximising individual performance and ensuring a swift delivery of prescriptions back to stores, ensuing they are in the right place at the right time. This is achieved through effective and accurate receiving, picking and despatching of prescriptions and in addition, creating a positive, can do culture.
What you'll need to have (our must-haves)
* Pharmacy Advisor qualification NVQ2 (or equivalent) or willing to work towards
* You will have experience leading and motivating an operational team.
* You can demonstrate that you have developed yourself as well as other team members.
* You have managed performance and achieved fantastic results.
* Able to look & think ahead & doesn't ignore problems.
* Owns issues & doesn't leave them for others to resolve.
* Results & service driven.
* An ambassador for the warehouse.
* Able to follow and uphold health and safety standards and operational procedures to ensure the safe and legal dispensing of medicines and the welfare of your colleagues
It would be great if you also have
* Experience working in a distance selling pharmacy.
* Experience within warehousing or logistics would be advantageous but isn't essential.
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.
There's lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts - there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
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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Business Area
Support Office
Function
Warehousing & Logistics
Keywords
Regional Dispensing hub, Warehouse, Dispensing, logistics
Hours per week
37.5
Latitude,longitude 1
51.279817541416854,-1.071134110159966
Is this a Global Brands req?
No
Airport
No
Company
UK Stores
Division
Non Stores
Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?
No
Region
Basingstoke
Area
Basingstoke Regional Dispensing Hub
Store
Basingstoke Regional Dispensing Hub
Req Posted Date
16-Feb-2026
County
Basingstoke
Country
UK
Address 1
6 Rutherford Rd
Address 2
Basingstoke
Post Code
RG24 8PD
Source
Boots
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