Category Management Coach

256496BR

**Category Management Coach**:

- Nottingham Support Office
- Fixed Term
- Full-time

**Contract: 10 month Fixed Term Contract, Full-time**

**Closing date: 14th July 2025**

About the role

At Boots, we get our customers better than anyone. Customer based, insight led decision making is central to achieving this and the Category Re-Profiling (CRP) team, part of the Insights function, plays a pivotal role by supporting our Boots UK retail businesses with sustainable competitive advantage by providing unparalleled commercial expertise and customer insight.

The Category Re-Profiling (CRP) Coach role sits within the Insights function.

Key responsibilities
- Organise and lead cross functional projects involving the curation of and preparation of insights and tactical retail lever recommendations, leading engaging workshops, coaching, and empowering your virtual teams to make decisions on topics ranging from price, promotions, multi-channel and format ranges, distribution, merchandising and supplier negotiations, whilst facilitating engagement with other impacted functions and programmes.
- Leads the thinking through coaching and stretching the ambition of trading teams to develop profitable customer led recommendations in order to maximise value for the business.
- Ensures rigour and quality of customer and financial inputs into the projects they lead to ensure that opportunities and trade-offs are identified and understood, whilst ensuring the customer offer is not compromised and remains customer led.
- Supporting and helping to shape our approach to category management best practice.
- 'Bring the outside in' by sharing best practice and knowledge of the external market and competitor landscape with the teams that you work with.

What you'll need to have
- The ability to coach in a commercial environment to empower, motivate and inspire the delivery of world class category management objectives and the related supplier negotiation plans through others, because you understand the category, customers, market and suppliers and the challenges that the customer is facing into
- A proven track record in a commercially focused role ideally retail or FMCG
- The ability to inspire, coach and engage others. You will also be a first-class relationship manager and project manager with great, all-round communication and influencing skills, which when combined with your strong analytical and numerate skills you can create a narrative from analysis and insights, with a high degree of customer focus

It would be great if you also have
- Degree level or equivalent qualification - from a numerate discipline

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

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

**Business Area**
- Support Office

**Function**
- Buying & Merchandising

**Specialism**
- Buying

**Keywords**
- Category, Management, Coach

**Hours per week**
- 37.5

**Latitude,longitude 1**
- 52.927182,-1.183948

**Is this a Global Brands req?**
- No

**Airport**
- No

**Should this appear on the No7 Beauty Company website?**
- 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**
- 30-Jun-2025

**County**
- Nottinghamshire

**Country**
- UK

**Address 1**
- Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

**Address 2**
- Thane Road

**Address 3**
- Nottingham