Category Assistant - Beauty & Wellness Ignite

Job Description Category Assistant - Boots Beauty & Wellness Ignite

Contract:

FTC 12 Months Recruitment Partner:
Anastasia Walker About the role

As the Category Assistant for Boots Beauty & Wellness Ignite, you'll play a critical role in implementing and supporting the Ignite team with spotting the latest beauty and wellness trends, setting up brands and engaging cross‑functionally on the progress being made.

You will provide administrative support to the team, you'll build strong relationships across the business, particularly within the Beauty and Wellness trading teams, ensuring engagement is always happening and being a true advocate for the Ignite programme.

Reporting into Category Manager - Boots Ignite, you will coordinate across multiple projects with external brands and internal cross‑functional teams and will hold yourself and others to high standards. You'll monitor how our products perform and show up in our stores and online, and you'll stay close to the latest trends and activity on social media. Your ability to manage multiple work streams at any given time will be key, as will be your comfort in working at a fast pace.

• Trend spotting on social media for Beauty and Wellness brands.
• Provide administrative support (including vendor set up and new line set up, raising purchase orders).
• Supporting on artwork, assets and sample coordination for instore trays, social and marketing activations etc.
• Ownership of regular updates with cross‑functional teams on progress being made with brands for setup and launch dates etc.
• Involvement in additional projects like Meet the buyer.
• Financial sales reporting.

Are you passionate about brands? Do you challenge yourself to stay aware of beauty and wellness led trends?

In addition to the above, the following skills would be advantageous for the role of the Ignite Category Assistant:

• You have a passion for Beauty and Wellness products.
• You are comfortable with working at a fast pace.
• You can work collaboratively in a team.
• A driver of change - leading the way and role‑modeling new processes for others.
• Passionate about the best delivery - on time, in full, right first time and committed to achieving this.
• Amazing attention to detail, as well as the ability to work well under pressure juggling multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Flexible, proactive and driven.
• Experience in commercial would be ideal and knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word) essential.

• 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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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.

If you apply, 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 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.

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.
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