Closing Date: Wednesday 27th August Location: Nottingham Contract: 6-month secondment Recruitment Partner: Frankie McCallister-Lyas Overview: We are looking for a brilliant Head of Marketing to support the delivery of some big plans we have coming up. This is a high profile, varied and fast paced leadership role reporting into the Director of Marketing for Healthcare. You’ll lead the marketing team to deliver best in class marketing plans throughout the year. You will be responsible for overall creative direction for these and set the strategy for the future of health. Key Responsibilities: • You will be accountable for the planning and delivery of all communications to customers to support the healthcare 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 our 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 into a communication / campaign calendar. • Lead live trading periods, responding to marketing conditions to maximise results and KPI performance • To stay Marketing leading, 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 some external agency partners to deliver end results • 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 About 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. Keywords HEAD OF, MARKETING, HEALTH