Category Manager - Marketing Procurement

Job Description

Category Manager - Marketing Procurement

Permanent

Nottingham

Recruitment Partner:
Vyoma Gandhi

Full-time Category Manager, reporting into the Category Director for Marketing Procurement, based in Nottingham, taking ownership of categories across the marketing portfolio such as insights, creative, production, media, PR and marketing technology. Partnering with partners and agencies across Boots, Opticians and No7 Beauty Company to lead value, innovation and compliance.

As a Category Manager in the Marketing Procurement team, you will report into the Category Director for Marketing responsible for ~£200m spend, work in collaboration with two other Marketing Category Managers, supported by a cross‑function team of shared Procurement Associates. The Category Directors (Marketing, Property, Logistics, Professional Services and Technology) report to the Director of Procurement who directly reports to the Chief Financial Office.

• Develop and manage category strategy(ies) for an assigned portfolio
• Work with team members up to and including CxO / Executives to develop strategies, testing requirements, through external insights, spend analysis and always challenging the balance between value and service.

• Promote procurement led change and sourcing activities across Boots, Opticians and No7 Beauty Company
• Project manage work‑streams/programmes in the Category Strategy to ensure timely delivery of goals within the prescribed governance
• Collaborate with several areas of the business, such as Finance Business Partners, Legal, Info Sec and Data Protection
• Provide professional procurement expertise to multiple stakeholders
• Undertake negotiations, selection and contracting to support the business and deliver objectives
• Report on savings, ROI and other procurement KPIs

• Help manage key supplier relationships
• Develop strategic relationships ensuring mutual beneficial outcomes

• Strategy Development – understands the dynamics of the Marketing categories (insights, creative, production, media, PR and marketing technology), agencies and business; can develop strategies that maximise the return for the business
• Commercial Knowledge – uses knowledge to deliver the right balance between value and service, demonstrating commercial creativity
• Negotiation – explores positions and alternatives to reach outcomes that gain acceptance of all parties and maximises return
• Contracting – uses expertise in commercial contracts to negotiate contractual terms for local and regional arrangements
• Project Management – ability to shape and lead programmes to deliver initiatives on time in full
• Stakeholder Experience – navigates multiple areas of the business to form a reasonable strategy, plans and actions
• Communication Skills – articulates direction and plans, commercial results and issues to a broad range of team members
• Risk Management – identifies risks and mitigation plans acting always within the risk appetite of the business
• Category Management – leads the category management process through all stages of its life cycle.

• Experience in arrangements for Performance Media e.g. PPC, Social and Affiliates. Performance Media technologies such as CM/SA/DV360, Smartly, feed providers.
• Management of Media cost and quality metrics.

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and a 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 s/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.

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