Category Manager Men's

Contract: 12 Mths FTC/Secondment

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

Category Manager Mens

About the role:

Welcome to the Boots Customer & Category team an exciting team at the heart of Boots UKs growth plans. Our Customer & Category Managers work at pace building excellent relationships both internally and externally as well as across functions. Youll be able to demonstrate great team management skills and work with agility to deliver the best opportunities for Boots. Youll be accountable for executing the commercial strategy across your categories and executing the best possible delivery against this ambition.

Reporting to the Head of Category the Customer & Category Manager will be a key member of the category team. This role leads a team to deliver brilliant growth plans for our customers that drive differentiation and category growth.

• Have a passion for mens categoryto lead and inspire a team through the highs and lows of trading.
• Have an understanding of properties space and layouts to lead on any givenproject
• Be responsible for the strategic delivery of the category plans.
• Building great relationships with our supplier partners to create the best possible plans for customers and secure new brands for the category.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset to pull all available levers to optimise the P&L.
• Be the expert in our customer understand what they need now and what they would love in the future.
• Lead a team supporting them to drive the business and helping them to achieve their career goals.

• You will demonstrate building great relationships internally and externally leveraging those relationships to make the most of every opportunity.
• You will have strong commercial awareness with a deep understanding of customer needs and motivations able to translate insight to strategy to trade plans which capitalise on customer and market opportunities.
• You will be an inspirational leader who creates commitment and belief in others playing a key role in ensuring suppliers and internal stakeholders are bought in to the vision for the future of the business.
• A proactive go-getter doesnt wait to be told what to do but goes after new opportunities to drive the business harder.

• Previous experience in retail and category management with great negotiation skills

• 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 (Please note any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate).

Whats next:

If yourapplication is successful our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interviewand to answer any initial questions you you have not been successful on thisoccasionyoull 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.