Travel Stores Project Manager

Job Description

Contract: Full-time, 9-month Secondment
Salary: Lv 5
Closing date: 07/11/25
Recruitment Partner: Daniel White, Daniel.white1@boots.com

With our Travel Stores' proposition evolving, this is a unique opportunity to lead strategic projects, collaborate across functions, and drive transformation. Whether you're an experienced PM or bring project exposure alongside strong retail experience, this role offers the chance to make a real impact for the business.

About the role
This role sits within our Central Operations Travel team, reporting directly to the MD - Travel, with a dotted line to a Senior Programme Manager within the Transformation function.

As Travel Stores Project Manager, you'll lead and coordinate strategic and operational projects that support the development and delivery of our evolving Travel Stores proposition. Working cross-functionally, you'll play a key role in shaping and executing initiatives that drive growth and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead strategic projects that support the growth and evolution of the Travel Stores proposition, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Support tender submissions with airport authorities for new premises, working closely with Estates and Travel teams.
• Coordinate the Travel Support Office team's activities, ensuring operational efficiency and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Ensure alignment and integration with standard property and store development processes (e.g. New Store/Development Programme activity).
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables across multiple functions.
• Ensure effective governance and reporting, including regular updates to the MD Travel and Senior Programme Manager.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, holding stakeholders accountable for delivery and resolving interdependencies.
• Champion project management best practices, including planning, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement, and change control.
• Provide project assurance to the Transformation team, ensuring initiatives are well-controlled and delivering against their intended outcomes.

What you'll need to have

• Proven experience in project and/or programme management within a complex, multi-functional environment.
• Strong administrative & organisational skillset
• Comfortable managing stakeholders across various levels of seniority
• Capable of challenging the status quo and driving accountability.
• Familiar with Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

It would be great if you also have

• Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2), is desirable, but know when these can/should be flexed

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 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.

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. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why 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. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What's next
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.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.