Closing date: 1 April 2024

Recruitment Partner: Matt Haywood

About the role

A role at the heart of Store Development, delivering customer-led planners to ensure our ranges are displayed in an attractive, easy to shop way in our stores. Reporting to the Merchandising Manager, the Merchandising Specialist plays a key role in creating planograms for implementation in our stores, keeping the customer at the front of all decisions and managing rebuild projects to ensure they land within time.

• Enable commercial teams to deliver their ranges into store
• Bring customer insight, product innovation and financial targets together in the displays we create
• Responsible for a selection of categories, developing an understanding of each and using this to create the best possible displays
• Work collaboratively with a wide cross-functional team

What you’ll need to have

• Ability to manage multiple projects which may well overlap and be running to different timescales, including keeping stakeholders informed of progress and making them aware of any issues
• A strong eye for detail, and the ability to work accurately and to deadlines
• The ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of different stakeholders
• Be able to embrace and positively react to change
• Have the confidence to share your ideas with a variety of stakeholders, and the ability to discuss and understand the views of others
• Proficient to challenge ways of working with a continuous drive for improvement

It would be great if you also have

• Strong Excel knowledge would be an advantage. There will be training on Intactix (planner creation software/system)

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 holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and 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. 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, it’s with you, we change for the better.

What’s next

We are always open to discussing possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you, including job share and reduced hours. 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.

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