Category Manager - Premium Beauty
274714BR
Category Manager \- Premium Beauty
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Nottingham, Nottingham Support Office
Secondment
Full\-time
Job Description
Customer \& Category Manager – Premium Beauty
Contract: 12 Mths Secondment
Location: Nottingham
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
Are you ready to make a difference? Join Boots as a Customer \& Category Manager on Premium Beauty based in Nottingham, Beeston. Here at Boots, we’re committed to building a brilliant environment for our people, empowering you to deliver exceptional care, confidence, and connection to our customers and colleagues every day. As part of our Beauty Business Unit, you will lead a dynamic team and collaborate with various departments to create a compelling and customer\-focused beauty experience. As customers are changing, so are we! We’re focusing on really understanding our customers’ needs through insights and trends, which support us to deliver the most comprehensive beauty offering in the UK market, under one roof.
What you’ll be doing:
In this fast\-paced role, you will lead a team in delivering our annual budget and negotiate joint business plans with our UK brand partners. You’ll work closely cross functionally with a number of Boots UK teams to ensure we meet our business priorities including supply, finance \& merchandising.
Your responsibilities will include:* Own and deliver the commercial plan for the Premium Beauty category, analysing sales performance to enable reactivity where required.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of between 4\-6 direct reports.
- Develop and execute a clear, customer\-led beauty trading strategy to ensure operational excellence, providing exceptional communication and problem\-solving support to our stores.
- Collaborate with ISM, Finance, Supply Chain, and Merchandising to execute an integrated category plan.
- Build and manage strong supplier partnerships to develop exclusive and differentiated joint business plans.
- Analysing sales performance within the market to define new product \& brand opportunities to unlock further category growth and share.
- Managing and driving the overall category P\+L alongside the rest of the Premium Beauty leadership team.
- Ideally would have line management experience.
- Strong organisational skills to manage multiple big brands across the Premium Beauty category.
- Exceptional communication skills, ensuring accuracy and a “right first time” mentality.
- It would be great if you also have a passion for beauty and a focus on career development within the trading function.
At Boots, we are committed to your growth and development. You will have the opportunity to learn something new every day and shape your career path within our supportive environment.
Rewards designed for you* Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution)
- Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
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?
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. 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.
We hope to hear from you soon.
Be brilliant with Boots.
Business Area
Support Office
Function
Buying \& Merchandising
Keywords
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
26\-May\-2026
County
Nottinghamshire
Country
UK
Address 1
Recruitment Service Centre (D94\)
Address 2
Thane Road
Address 3
Nottingham
Post Code
NG90 1BS
Source
Boots
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