Job Description

267822BR

Assistant Category Manager - Fragrance

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Nottingham, Nottingham Support Office
Secondment
Full-time

Contract: 12 Mths FTC/Secondment

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

The importance of your role.

This is your chance to be part of something a bit different. Joining our Brand Buying team, you'll help drive the success of our brands and our business - and we think that's a really great opportunity. We've big plans to become even bigger and better, and build on our health & beauty brand successes of No.7, Soltan, Botanics, Soap and Glory, and Boots Pharmaceuticals. There's a real opportunity to grow your career with us.It's about offering really wonderful products so our customers feel really good, to keep them coming back. We're passionate about offering fantastic quality at the best value prices in store.

Together these elements will play a big part in making us No 1 for Customer Care.What you'll be doing day to day.

Reporting into the Category Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our development, sourcing and delivering consumer brands including our own wonderful brands. You'll help decide what products reach our in-store shelves. You'll get to know our customer favourites, analysing data and providing great sourcing recommendations to support our global consumer, and retail brand strategies.Your commercial awareness in this fast paced, and ever changing market will serve you well as you'll be part of big projects with really high profile brands.Inspiring the Brand Buying team, you'll always put our customers at the heart of everything you do. You'll look out for new opportunities, and identify what we could be missing out on to set Boots apart from other retailers.

How will you do it?

You'll love our brands and be an ambassador for them, as we work towards becoming the world's best pharmacy led health and beauty retailer.Building really great relationships with our vendors and suppliers, you'll help our customers get the best products at a really great price. Showing off your negotiation skills, you'll help reduce our costs and seek out a global source for raw materials at the best possible price.With your fantastic eye for detail you'll find great opportunities for our brands, working closely with the Brand Buying team, focussing on our financial targets and monitoring our progress.There's also a range of fantastic benefits and training for you, not to mention great in store discounts.

What you'll need to have

We're looking for really great people, with a friendly personality. It's all about working together as one great team - after all it's our people that are at the heart of our business. It's a fantastic opportunity to add to your own development, and a chance to learn more about us as a business. It could open up even more opportunities with us.


You'll have lots of great experience in either sourcing or buying, or supplier management, or negotiations skills from an FMCG or other business. But it isn't just about experience, we're interested in seeing a bit more, the real you - and that makes us all feel good.Just to let you know, sometimes you'll need travel within the UK or internationally.

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 http://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.

A bit about us

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

What's next?

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. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you 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.

Business Area

Support Office

Function

Buying & Merchandising

Keywords

assistant, category, manager

Hours per week

37.5

Latitude,longitude 1

52.927182,-1.183948

Is this a Global Brands req?

No

Airport

No

Company

Non Stores

Division

Non Stores

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

No

Region

East Midlands

Area

East Midlands (non stores)

Store

Nottingham Support Office

Req Posted Date

23-Dec-2025

County

Nottinghamshire

Country

UK

Address 1

Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

Address 2

Thane Road

Address 3

Nottingham

Post Code

NG90 1BS

Source

Boots