eCommerce Trading Lead, Cosmetics - Boots UK

Closing Date: 11th August

Contract: 12 month fixed term contract

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

Overview

Boots Digital is an exciting team within Boots UK that is at the heart of our growth plans as more customers look to us for online help, advice, and shopping inspiration. As well as, of course, the best Boots products, prices and offers. As customers are changing, so are we: focusing on really understanding our customers’ needs and making the most of our great products and services to optimise the online shopping experience and drive growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day trading and how the SSC category shows up across Boots.com, contributing to total Boots.com revenue & profit growth and market share ambitions.
• Be seen as the digital expert in your category, holding a clear understanding of the drivers for the category and the Cosmetics market, with insight about how to drive conversion and increase customer acquisition.
• Delivery of new product launches, sales plan, online trade plan and owning the digital plan for your brands and category.
• Managing multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure the category is appropriately supported.
• Supporting development initiatives and process improvements, ensuring that ecommerce trading and customer requirements are captured.
• Responsible for legal and safe trade of own categories online and delivery of KPIs.

What you’ll need to have:

• Experience of working in a commercial role, either within eCommerce or with strong retail trading/buying experience.
• An understanding of online trading levers and performance marketing – confident in using data & insight to drive performance and in building and delivering plans.
• Able to use initiative and be willing to push boundaries and take calculated risks to gain a competitive advantage.
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management – confident engaging, influencing and holding to account teams, peers, senior stakeholders and third parties (e.g., product suppliers).
• Adaptable and able to maintain excellent prioritisation and organisation skills within a fast-paced environment.

IMPORTANT NOTE

This role requires regular working outside normal office hours. This typically involves working from 5am one or two times a month and occasional overnight working e.g., for major launches. In general, you will be expected to be flexible with your working hours to meet business and customer needs.

Rewards designed for you:

• Pension membership
• Partial paid maternity leave
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Flexible benefits scheme

*Exclusions may apply (eligible roles only)

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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.