Category Manager - Men's
Job Description
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nottingham
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
Category Manager - Men's
About the role:
Welcome to the Boots Customer & Category team - an exciting team at the heart of Boots UK's growth plans. Our Customer & Category Managers work at pace, building excellent relationships both internally and externally, as well as across functions. You'll be able to demonstrate great team management skills, and work with agility to deliver the best opportunities for Boots. You'll 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 men's category to lead and inspire a team through the highs and lows of trading.
- Have an understanding of properties, space and layouts, to lead on any given project
- 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.
What you'll need to have (our must-haves):
- 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 - doesn't wait to be told what to do, but goes after new opportunities to drive the business harder.
It would be great if you also have:
- Previous experience in retail and category management, with great negotiation skills
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.
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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.